The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Romanian Artists
Editura Arc 2000 Bucuresti 2003
There are vigorous signs at the painting level by Mihail Tomescu that customize his creative approach; first of all, a remarkable quality of the pictorial invoice, coupled with a depth of the cerebral and affective support, the definite proof of solid articulation of language, of training in a continuous spiritual flow.
In a time of the predominance of the show that is often consumed at the level of purely optical effect, ephemeral, circulated both first media and through art, the young Romanian painter manifests himself as an impatient promoter of an anthropocentric approach, keeping man at the center of the universe and the evocative investigation of essences.
To give the basis and duration of his imaginative invocations Mihail Tomescu makes recurs to memory: Hence that popular revelation of images of ethereal facts and archaeological insignia born from the foam of the seas, from the kingdom of shadows, from the illuminations of the burning magma (Pompeii... an hour before, Minos, Miraculous Fishing, Centaur cornering Chimera and so on). In a beautiful reconquering attempt, a personification of the human aspiration towards completion is realized, displaying splendors of the eternal feminine, shipwrecks to a wonderful world, fauns and singers under the spell of music, configurations of edenic spaces steadfast under the zodiac of eternity. It is instilled at the level of evocations and a nostalgic air, a discreet elegiac breath in aura like compositions of an enigmatic metaphorical thrill. Emblematic is on this disturbing cycle thread Song for a night bird in which the feeling of a tireless vigil is cultivated, waiting for certainties.
What gives consistency and fascination to Mihail Tomescu's painting arises from the memorable sense of matter and modulation of accents, from the constant will and concern to invest the pigment and the overall tuning the entire capacity of expressive sound. NEGOITA LAPTOIU
NPT Arts Break- inteview by Megan Grisolano
Press/Articles
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