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The Yoga of Contemplation, Color, and Space
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When Valeriu Boborelu came to the U.S. in 1983, from Bucharest, he had held a teaching position at the Nicolae Grigorescu Academy of Fine Arts, and had been appointed to the Chair of Painting there. Following one year in Paris, with three exhibits featuring his work at the Grand Palais, he gave up his teaching position, and was able to seek residence in the United States, and to bring his family to live in Kew Gardens, Queens, NY.
"My earliest paintings were influenced by Romanian traditional art, especially the old icons on glass." Painting on large surfaces, Boborelu seems to magnify essential and spiritual issues in a yoga of consciousness and movement: "Equilibrium and the rhythm of shapes: geometrically structured space: the harmony the sobriety of color, as derived from the polarities of white/black, which penetrate and experience the warmth of life and the superior planes of our consciousness... Shapes are reduced to their essentials, and the expression of human forms sometimes inspired by mineral and floral worlds, is related to their ancestral, anthropomorphic silhouettes -- integrated in verticals, obliques, or spirals, into continuous movement and suggestion of depth... Says Mr. Boborelu: "I believe that painting is a spiritual vibration sent to other souls, seeking our own real Identity."
Mr. Boborelu has shown his painting in one-person shows since 1967 at the Kalinderu, Victoria, Apollo, Simeza, and Horizon Galleries in Bucharest, Romania. He participated in group shows in 1962 in Warsaw, in 1969 in Turin and Helsinki, and later in Venice, Moscow, and Sofia.
Since coming to the U.S., his work has been seen at the Artists Space Gallery, and Tribeca 148, as well as at the Alex Gallery and the World Bank Auditorium in Washington D.C. Over the years, his paintings have been acquired by private and state collections throughout Europe and Venezuela.
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