Petrichor

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Overview

Visually organized into two distinct and successive typologies, seen as a biographical consequence, the melancholic void of the Transylvanian hilly landscape, and the lush and isotropic vegetation of the exotic south in Bali or Togo, the paintings are charged with an anxious intensity.

Circular hills or claustrophobic vertical tropical forests are organized in the image plane through contrasts of complementary colors, ensuring a chromatic tension in the image. With a true horror vacui organizational approach, Ioan de Moisa seeks a unified notation that can be used regardless of the integrated background images, where it is easy for us to sort the pairs of complementary colors that structure it, thus making the composition vibrate and extend the visual field, ordering our gaze to never stop at a fixed point, like the logic of a camera.

[…] Petrichor is a patented term in the English language, in the field of chemistry, which, starting from the Greek “the blood of stones,” designates the smell released in the air by the rain falling on dry ground. It is produced by a molecule called “geosmin.” I bring up this element because I believe it is intimately linked to the nature of the two proposed landscape typologies – the Transylvanian autumn rain and the sun-drenched dry soil of the exotic south – as well as the mineral quality of chromatic treatment. […] – excerpt from the exhibition text signed by Horaţiu Lipot.

Works

Ioan de Moisa. Abel`s Game, 2018. oil on paper, 60 x 90 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

€2250.00

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Ioan de Moisa. Solitude, 2018. oil on paper, 60 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

€1400.00

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Ioan de Moisa. Lover With A Broken Wing, 2022. ink and pastel on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

€1000.00

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Ioan de Moisa. Lost in the jungle, 2018. ink on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

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Ioan de Moisa. The Boy Who Cooks Meat, 2022. pastel on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

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Ioan de Moisa. Kpalime, 2022. gouache on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

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Ioan de Moisa. Steps Of A Lonely Soul, 2018. pastel on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

€1000.00

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Ioan de Moisa. Self Portrait, 2022. ink on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

€1000.00

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Ioan de Moisa. Fishing Day, 2022. ink on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

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Ioan de Moisa. Self Portrait With Birds, 2018. pastel on paper, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

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Ioan de Moisa. Human Searching For Himself, 2021. oil on linen, 18 x 25 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

Snowy hills in latent space, 2022, acrylic and oil on linen, diptych, 200 x 274 cm Ceremony for the Gods, 2022, pastel on playwood, 60 x 60 cm

Ioan de Moisa. Snowy hills in latent space, Ceremony for the Gods, 2022. acrylic and oil on linen, diptych and pastel on playwood, 200 x 274 and 60 x 60 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

The Boy Who Cooks Meat, 2022, pastel on paper, 30 x 40 cm Brothers From Lome II, 2022, pastel on paper, 30 x 40 cm

Ioan de Moisa. The Boy Who Cooks Meat, Brothers From Lome II, 2022. pastel on paper, 30 x 40 cm, 30 x 40 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

Baptism, 2022, acrylic and oil on linen, 147.5 x 186 cm

Ioan de Moisa. Baptism, 2022. oil on linen, 5 x 186 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

Baptism II, 2022, acrylic and oil on linen, 146 x 175 cm

Ioan de Moisa. Baptism II, 2022. oil on linen, 146 x 175 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

Brothers from Lome, 2023, charcoal on paper, 50 x 70 cm Ceremony for the Gods, 2022, pastel on playwood, 60 x 60 cm

Ioan de Moisa. Brothers from Lome, Ceremony for the Gods, 2023. charcoal on paper, 50 x 70 cm and 60 x 60 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

Brothers from Lome, 2023, charcoal on paper, 50 x 70 cm Heavy Life, 2023, charcoal on paper, 50 x 70 cm

Ioan de Moisa. Brothers from Lome, 2023. charcoal on paper, 50 x 70 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

Snowy hills in latent space, 2022, acrylic and oil on linen, diptych, 200 x 274 cm

Ioan de Moisa. Snowy hills in latent space, 2022. oil on linen, 200 x 274 cm. Petrichor, Cluj-Napoca, 12/05/2023 – 28/05/2023. Curator: Horațiu Lipot. Gallery: The Cosmic House.

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