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ROMANIA
Public's Award - Grand BAZ’ART 2013
”Old” Ioan Măric thinks he is a naive artist simply because that is how the others define him, but he has the intuition of not being at all like the others.
He is unaware of being an outsider artist because the term hasn’t yet made its way to his apartment in Bacău, Romania.
But in the eyes with which ”Old” Ioan looks upon and paints the world of his native village there is not the slightest trace of naïveté. There is kindness, yes, and quickness, and a healthy dose of irony, a burst of hearty laughter for every vice or folly that he shows on the canvas.
And above all, ”Papa” is an allegorist, playing with avatars as from a Medieval bestiary, which drove some to compare him to the great Moldavian storyteller Ion Creangă.
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