Doina Simionescu created a kind of visual journal. Fresh – delicate – inventive. A passage to say that the eye has an extreme pleasure ‘sur le motif’, that can also be fulfilled in its proximity.
Doina Simionescu brings things closer and makes them incredibly more interesting. ‘The blossom lay like snow’. Sometimes her art emits light. For the visual journal she used a new type of description. She had chosen the particular time of day, the summer morning, the quality of the air, the charcoal shadow of the silhouettes, emotion in a fluid form / ‘I hear the light’… ‘this is a very good line’… the performative power of drawing.
“She was fastened to minimalism, using a gestural abstraction with hard edges and tender surfaces. She practiced an evanescent communication, infinitely sophisticated.”
Liviana Dan, In Memoriam Doina Simionescu
For Doina Simionescu, drawing was more than just a line of thought, it was a moment in life. The drawing composes her artwork following a liquid metaphor and a type of intense continuity. The drawing follows a lyrical geometry, dictated by the aesthetics of silence. It is an exercise of ascetic value. An ecological asceticism. An imaginative behavior for what one can do.
The rigor of drawing determines Doina Simionescu to find an emergency-based approach. Doina Simionescu finds a place / Gruiu / and a natural, direct world. Which travels in and out of the photograph. Photography as a free theoretical zone. Starting with this place, photography certifies the involvement of the facts and the intensity of images. Doina Simionescu does not have to draw anymore. There is a dimension behind the speech even before the photograph. There are many other discursive elements after the photograph.
