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Dada Costea

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Dada Costea

Dizzy bard, wild dreamer, clumsy alchemist and a tenacious dadaist, no doubt! So, I experiment a lot: poetry, short stories, mixed media paintings...
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The dream about rebirth, digital painting, 75 x 100 cm. This digital painting unfolds like an archaeological dream, built from fragments of documents, stamps, handwriting, and photographic traces. Layers of torn paper, official seals, and historical markings create a visual palimpsest — an archive that has been broken, reassembled, and reimagined. At the top, a weathered strip of security film introduces the idea of protection, fragility, and time. Beneath it, a partial portrait — lips, chin, the suggestion of a human presence — emerges from cursive handwriting and circular ink marks, as if memory itself were trying to speak through the layers. The lower section is dominated by sepia‑toned bureaucratic documents: Romanian stamps, signatures, legal text, and official seals. These elements anchor the work in a specific cultural history, yet the collage transforms them into something fluid, symbolic, and dreamlike. The marks of institutions become emotional residues; the administrative becomes intimate. The entire composition feels like a rebirth through paper — a reconstruction of identity from fragments, a return of something once lost. The painting suggests that rebirth is not a clean beginning, but a layered process: a negotiation between what remains, what fades, and what insists on returning.

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The iridescent square, A mixed‑media collage that pairs layered torn paper and bright abstract paint with industrial elements: a vertical grid of metallic washers, a perforated metal square, and a measuring tape running across the lower edge, creating a contrast between mechanical precision and expressive color. As I told you, I love to experiment! Acrylic spray and paint, charcoal, ink, various fragments from newspapers and magazines, colored pencils and a wooden panel.