Cristina grew up in Romania’s post-communist years, in the capital city, Bucharest. With busy working parents, she and her sister searched for ways to spend their time and entertain themselves. When they weren’t in school or playing with other kids,...
Read MoreCristina grew up in Romania’s post-communist years, in the capital city, Bucharest. With busy working parents, she and her sister searched for ways to spend their time and entertain themselves. When they weren’t in school or playing with other kids, they used to create all kinds of fun games for themselves. As a teenager, Cristina realized that she liked drawing, so she used the art books in her parents’ library as an inspiration.
Cristina always looked for and got involved in any creative project that she could find, be it writing, making advertising materials or home decorations. Following on this single enduring thread, in the summer of 2022, Cristina finally decided to study art, attending the Mastery Program at Milan Art Institute. In her paintings, the image is composed of multiple thin layers that seem to reveal the traces of the past and the influence of the present.
"I believe our life is a grand collage of dreams, memories, and fears. And that the power to make it cohesive, kind, and fulfilling is ours”, Cristina says.
Cristina's art is maximalist and eclectic. She loves mixing various mediums in her process - charcoal, graphite, collage, inks, sprays, markers, oils - combining rich and bold colors, and different textures. In her tiny studio, she creates vibrant, surreal, sometimes absurd images that stir the imagination. She draws her inspiration from the natural world, evoking the overlooked and the rejected, the mysterious and the misunderstood. She uses allegory to express the interferences between the animal and the human world.
Imagining stories where fantasy and reality touch, Cristina hopes above all to inspire acceptance and connectivity and to encourage empathy and kindness.
