Ion Șinca · Exhibitions 1996, 2002IS-0047
Night Phantasm
Fantasma nopții
1997 · oil on canvas, 29 × 23 cm
A nocturnal view from above over a settlement: the sky, filling the upper half, is a dark blue mass crossed by horizontal bands of pink-grey and white cloud pushed on with a broad brush. Below the horizon the town appears as a dense row of white, ochre and brick patches, with a few large rounded forms — tree crowns or domes — lit from the left. The foreground is an almost empty brown-violet strip that lifts the eye towards the bright middle band. There are no firm contours: everything is built from overlaid patches, and the artificial light is suggested by an accumulation of light strokes rather than by point sources.
Dated 1997, legible on the canvas. The catalogue of the 1996 exhibition at the “Jean Louis Calderon” Gallery lists an identical title at no. 4 — but a work painted in 1997 cannot have been shown in 1996, so either that entry is a different work of the same name or the catalogue is in error. The year stands as 1997; the link to the 1996 exhibition remains to be settled.
Motifsphantasms
- Where it is today
- Not documentedThe work is documented — photograph, catalogue, exhibition — but the archive does not record where it is now. That does not mean lost; it means unrecorded.
- Exhibited
- 1996 · 2002
How to cite
Ion Șinca, „Night Phantasm” (Fantasma nopții), 1997. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0047. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/fantasma-noptii-1997/
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