Composition 

Curator: Immediately I'm drawn in by the earthy color palette—lots of ochre, browns, and blacks punctuated by little flares of sage green. There’s a feeling of autumnal decay about it, doesn’t it evoke that for you? Editor: It absolutely does. What we have before us is an untitled "Composition" rendered with oil paints, apparently by Ion Alin Gheorghiu, although the specific date eludes us. I’m seeing several interwoven shapes that hint at figuration fighting against near total abstraction. The whole is reminiscent of a Byzantine mosaic, reinterpreted through a modern expressionist lens. Curator: Mosaic is apt. The individual elements feel deliberate yet independent, as if each segment carries its own symbolic weight without contributing to a clear, overarching narrative. Do you sense an intentional obfuscation or is that just me imposing? Editor: Not at all! Abstraction has always been fertile ground for projecting meaning, a Rorschach test for the soul, so to speak. Consider the amber forms towards the center – are they stylized blossoms? Internal organs laid bare? Perhaps Gheorghiu intended the viewer to simply dwell in that ambiguity, inviting their personal symbolism. Curator: Then what of the looming black mass dominating the upper register? Its scale implies dominance, yet its heavily outlined segments evoke both natural forms – like dark storm clouds gathering – and something far more mechanical, hinting perhaps, at cogs in some infernal machine? Editor: I see your storm clouds and raise you something older, more primal: cave paintings. That broken contour, echoed throughout, feels ancient. Perhaps the artist sought to tap into the oldest layers of visual consciousness, that point where representation and symbol blur? Curator: Which might suggest… a longing to retrieve some archaic unity of meaning. The conscious collapsing into the subconscious? Editor: Perhaps... or perhaps simply an intuitive urge toward complex forms! Either way, engaging with this "Composition" invites a profound reflection. I feel rewarded, every time. Curator: Absolutely. A striking visual and intellectual exercise; Gheorghiu’s "Composition" urges each viewer to embark on their own symbolic excavations.