Announcing the representation of Mircea Suciu

KETELEER GALLERY is delighted to announce its representation of Romanian artist Mircea Suciu.

 

Mircea Suciu (b. 1978, Baia Mare, RO) lives and works in Cluj-Napoca (RO). His work is characterized by a distinctive interplay of figuration and abstraction, incorporating both art-historical and pop-cultural references to develop a unique visual language. Drawing from a wide array of sources, Suciu reinterprets and transforms imagery into a deeply personal and unique visual language, where the layering of meaning is as important as the layering of materials. 

A key feature of Suciu’s artistic practice is his self-developed monotype technique. By transferring photographic images onto canvas and subsequently working them over with acrylic and oil paint, he creates a balance between structured composition and expressive painterly intervention. This process results in a fragmented, textured surface that deliberately disrupts the traditional notion of an image as a singular, compact representation. 

Themes of anxiety, violence, and oppression are central to Suciu’s work. Having grown up under a communist dictatorship, he became acutely aware of the ways in which images can be used as instruments of manipulation, control, or, conversely, emancipation. His paintings often reflect on the power dynamics inherent in visual culture, questioning how historical and contemporary imagery shapes our perceptions of reality. 

By embracing an eclectic selection of imagery, Suciu seeks to distill an iconic visual language in an era oversaturated with images. His work does not merely document or critique, but actively engages with the mechanisms of representation, compelling the viewer to confront the complex relationship between past and present, individual and collective memory, and illusion and truth. His practice is rooted in a continuous dialogue between personal experience, historical consciousness, and formal experimentation. 

 

A first official presentation of his work will entail a solo exhibition at Art Brussels 2025.