On Bistrița Valley 

Dumitru Ghiatza's "On Bistrița Valley" is a symphony of color and texture rendered with thick, energetic strokes of oil paint. The composition leads the eye through the rolling hills, from the fiery foreground to the cool, distant mountains. This vibrant landscape might evoke a sense of serene immersion in nature. But it's the formal relationships that truly speak. Ghiatza employs a structuralist approach, reducing the landscape to its basic forms. The dabs of color are almost like linguistic units, building a visual language. The rough impasto challenges traditional ideas of landscape painting, pushing the boundaries of representation. The interplay of warm and cool colors creates a dialogue, destabilizing fixed perceptions of depth and space. Notice how the horizon line, though present, is not a rigid boundary but rather a shifting zone. Ghiatza is not just painting a scene; he's engaging with the very idea of landscape as a cultural and philosophical construct. The artwork invites us to continually re-interpret the relationship between nature and representation.