Constantine Cionca's Artist Profile
Constantine Cionca from Ridgewood, New York, United States
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Artist's Statement
Constantine Cionca (1955, Romanian born, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. On his conceptual digital work Cionca tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way that generates diverse meanings. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality.
”I think of my digital work as blending manipulated collage of fragments: objects, drawings, paintings, photographs. They are improvisational images that question our
making of the art through language and knowledge. My digital project has always been grounded in pleasure and aesthetics”. His digital works question the conditions of appearance of an image in the context of contemporary visual culture. By applying abstraction, he tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. His works doesn’t reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Constantine Cionca currently lives and works in New York.
Artist's Statement
Constantine Cionca (1955, Romanian born, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. On his conceptual digital work Cionca tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way that generates diverse meanings. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality.
”I think of my digital work as blending manipulated collage of fragments: objects, drawings, paintings, photographs. They are improvisational images that question our
making of the art through language and knowledge. My digital project has always been grounded in pleasure and aesthetics”. His digital works question the conditions of appearance of an image in the context of contemporary visual culture. By applying abstraction, he tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. His works doesn’t reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Constantine Cionca currently lives and works in New York.
Constantine Cionca is a New York based artist, involving in arts for over thirty years, working in a variety of creative medium as oil, acrylic, mixed media, computer generated artistic forms. Constantine Cionca, was born in Drobeta, a small ancient roman city on the Danube River in Romania. Now the artist and his family reside and work in New York. After graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 1970, Constantine attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest / Romania where he received in 1978 his Master of Fine Arts. While he studying the technical aspects of drawings and painting the artist traveled constantly gathering personal impressions of the community and nature. He also learned that skillful art not only means that the artist pay attention only to the aesthetics forms, but also require that art, could help and heal rather than wound and destroy. In his new works Constantine combine the scanned oil and acrylic painting or drawing, with images taken during his journey, then, digitally assembled into new compositions.