L'enjambée - The Stride (2021) Painting by Ciprian-Florin Stancu

Ciprian-Florin Stancu is a Franco-Romanian painter and photographer living in France. He grew up in Craiova in Romania, where he acquired a double background in fine arts and sciences. He trained with, among others, Mihail Trifan and Ilie Marineanu for painting, Ilie Berindei for sculpture and Nicu Dan Gelep for photography. At the same time, he trained in sound techniques.

He left Romania for France in 1991 and after a Masters in industrial design and graphic communication in Paris, he worked in a design office, then in advertising and marketing. After a few years he questioned the world of commercial art towards which his professional itinerary had led him, and gradually moved away from it from the 2000s. He followed a double course in psychology and philosophy at the University of Paris VIII, obtaining a DEA in philosophy as well as a master's degree in clinical psychology. He then developed a philotherapy activity while at the same time returning to a deeply personal artistic practice. He now devotes himself mainly to painting, photography and collaborations around sound and image.

"The objects, places, beings who inhabit my paintings have a very particular reality, a direct link with a future world which presents itself as it is, which does not seek its confirmation in reality but manifests its presence and asserts itself thus in the real. I call "im-mediated imaginary" my approach and my intimate vision of painting: an imaginary without mediation. If the real world is my cradle and my place of being, my painting, a window open to a another world, overflows by crossing the fine fabric delicately stretched within the framework of reality. " Ciprian-Florin Stancu, 2021

Ciprian-Florin Stancu is a Romanian-born artist currently living in France. Growing up in Craiova, Romania during the 1970's and 80's, he acquired a solid scientific background, while receiving formal training in fine arts from painters Mihail Trifan and Ilie Marineanu and from sculptor Ilie Berindei. Craiovean photographer Nicu Dan Gelep became his mentor in artistic photography and lab work.

After graduating with a Master's degree in industrial and graphic design in Paris, France, in 2001, he worked in marketing and advertising while expanding his remarkable creative range. After a decade of working in commercial art, Ciprian left the world of publicity in order to reaffirm his own artistic voice while also resuming intellectual pursuits in social sciences and philosophy, subsequently obtaining two Master's degrees from the University Paris 8 (in psychology and philosophy) . He then established a private practice as a practical philosophy therapist while maintaining his own art studio, delving more into a deeply personal artistic expression. Over the last years, his focus has been on painting, though he also occasionally provides artwork, videos and sound design for musical projects.

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary French Artists