I graduated the Fine Arts Academy in Iasi, Romania, with the highest grades in Clothing Design, Decorator (Home Design), Iconography. I am known as IVU, and that is how I sign my works.

I have always tried to understand and capture colors and forms ever since I first began to draw. They never cease to amaze me, being a perpetual challenge. That is how I feel and why I paint; it is somehow like a “struggle” with color and form in the sense of searching and experimenting with new ways to capture the essence of things. Those who own my works can attest to all the details which are impossible to see in a photograph.

Rendering on to canvas the passion within colors is my passion, for color keeps me alive and growing as an artist. God helps and guides me in my creations. Throughout my painting, always restless to explore and do more, I have experienced intense moments of self-discovery. I always paint with oils because only they have the richness of tone and versitility necessary to my expression.

The stages in the production of my creations are always accompanied by a deeply passionate inner turmoil that I control and direct. This control and the clarity it brings helps me see and express myself clearly through the brush in my hand. I often find it a bit awkward to speak about myself so I express that self through my paintings.

Many people love my work and buy my paintings and have been kind enough to tell me of their daily enjoyment of them. I take great delight in knowing so many homes have a distinctive touch with my paintings on their walls.

I create modern art as a person guided by old, precise, and clearly defined principles of honor and respect. It might be considered old-fashioned, but I will not change. With the hope that you have an idea about myself as person and artist, I invite you to enjoy my work and, hopefully, buy it.

IVU STUDIES:

Academy of Fine Arts ” G. Enescu” IASI, Faculty of Plastic Arts, Design and Home Decoration, Painting Section.

Member of the n Fine Arts Union since 2000. From 1992,

Participated, in all youth National and Group Department Exhibitions.

IVU in GROUP EXHIBITIONS :
- 1992 “ART” Gallery Bacau; - 1993 “ALFA”Gallery Bacau; - 1994 “ARTA”Gallery Bacau; - 1994 International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 1994 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 1995 “ALFA” Gallery Bacau; Romania; - 1995 International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE

MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 1995 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 1995 “EXPERIMENT” Exhibition “ARTA”Gallery Bacau; Romania; - 1996 “ARTA”Gallery Bacau; Romania; - 1996 International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 1996 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau;Roumania; - 1997 “ARTA” Gallery Bacau; Roumania; - 1997 Iconography Exhibition � ATENEU; Roumania

- 1997 International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 1997 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 1998″ARTA” Gallery Bacau Romania; - 1998International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 1998 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania

- 1999″ARTA” Gallery Bacau. Romania; - 1999International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 1999 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 2000 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 2000 International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 2001 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 2001 International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 2001 National Art Ermitage Bucharest; Romania; - 2001 International Contest Exhibition “N.Tonitza ” Birlad ,Vaslui; - 2002 Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau;- 2002 International Contest Exhibition “SALOANELE MOLDOVEI” Bacau-Chisinau; - 2003 � Exhibition 3 spre10; - 2003 - Annual Department Exhibition U.A.P. Bacau; Romania; - 2003 - �EXPERIMENT� Exhibition - �ARTA� Gallery Bacau; - 2003 - International Contest Exhibition �SALOANELE MOLDOVEI� Bacau-Chisinau; - - 2004 � STUDIO �35 �ARTA� Gallery Bacau; - 2004 - International Contest Exhibition �SALOANELE MOLDOVEI� Bacau-Chisinau; - 2004 - National Contest Plastic Art �VORONETIANA� Suceava

IVU�s Personal Exhibitions :

- 1998 HAPPENING � “BACOVIA” Theatre Bacau; Romania; - 2001 “ARTA” Gallery Bacau Romania

- 2005 �FILLART� Gallery

Website: IVUART
Contact email: ivu@ivuart.com

Engraver an draughtsman, Catherine Gillet is born in 1960 in the centre of France.
She lives and works near Versailles.
She’s got the Prix Lacouri�re in 2000, and her burin engravings are shown in international exhibitions and in France.
Drawings and engravings are presented by Nabokov Gallery in Paris and some other places.

Website: Catherine Gillet engraver-draughtsman
Contact email: catherinegillet@wanadoo.fr

Darla Farner (Mixed-Media Abstract Artist-Born in East Chicago,IN (USA).

Lives and works in Portland,OR 9USA). Unique Contemporary Abstract Artwork-OrignalPaintings $12,900.

Website: Water Color In Motion by artist DARLA FARNER
Contact email: darla.farner@comcast.net

About time, life, death, self-destruction of the man and the painting, the portrait as a reflection of death.

Website: Alfonso da Silva L�pez
Contact email: lapices@gmail.com

Michael Goodward’s sleek and sexy sculptures and installations hinge on a subtle twist of expectations or a surprising use of materials. In describing his work, the artist writes, “I have a profound desire to communicate intricate ideas in a concise and reduced manner using a variety of easily available domestic and industrial materials.” Reminiscent of the kind of post-conceptual alchemy performed by Tom Friedman, Goodward transforms mundane materials into poetic, humorous and sometimes ironic amalgamations.

“Something or Other”, for example, is a hairbrush in which the bristles have been replaced with hair, thus turning the very annoying phenomenon of hair getting caught in the hairbrush into a beautiful, albeit useless, aesthetic object. Text also plays an important role in Goodward’s work, and Goodward’s command of brevity is as witty as his juxtaposition of materials. Drawing on elements of design and architecture, Goodward places great emphasis on both the typeface of his texts, and the materials of his constructions.

The artist’s time spent in West Yorkshire and Switzerland - both landscapes of striking beauty - has no doubt played a significant role in formulating Goodward’s unique brand of polished poetics.

Charlotte Bonham-Carter 2007

Charlotte Bonham-Carter is an independent art critic and an Assistant Curator at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her writing has appeared in Flash Art, Contemporary, Art Review, Art Press, Tank, and Untitled, as well as a number of exhibition catalogues. She divides her time between London and Dublin.

Website: Galeria Espacio Kubiko
Contact email: m.goodward@yahoo.com

Geboren im Mai 1962 in Bregenz (Austria);
Verheiratet; 2 Kinder; Lebt in Wolfurt (Austria).

Fotok�nstler; Autodidakt; Fotografiert leidenschaftlich seit seiner Jugend; Fotografische Themen sind Portr�ts, Akt und Landschaft.

In manchen seiner neueren Werke verflie�en die Grenzen zwischen Fotografie und Malerei.

Website: Roland Heim Photography
Contact email: email@artfoto.info