Ion Șinca · Exhibitions 2002, 2010, 2016, 2024IS-0025

Țărm 1 / Marină 2 / Fantasma râpei albe

1990 · oil on canvas, 41 × 33 cm

A chalky white bank cuts the canvas diagonally from lower right to upper left, its sharp crests and black fissures marking where the ground has broken away. Beyond it at the left the water is a calm blue-grey surface, and behind rises a reddish-brown ridge. The foreground is a strip of golden ochre earth laid on with the knife in broad slabs. The sky, filling the upper third, is a bluish white rubbed horizontally. The whole work is built of thick paint applied in slices — a painting of matter, in which the white ravine acts as an accent of light rather than a form described in detail.

“Fantasma râpei albe” — the name in the artist’s notebook, 1990 · Painted at Vama Veche, like the whole „Țărm” (Shore) series — established by the family, August 2026.

MotifsVama Vecheseascapeswaterravines & rocksphantasms

Category · Landscapes

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

2002 · 2010 · 2016 · 2024

Related works

The „Țărm” (Shore) series — eight works between 1990 and 2010, the sea always seen from above, from the rock. The rock is the cliff at Vama Veche: all eight were painted there, established by the family in August 2026. With them, the seaside stops being a single year's exception and becomes a place he returned to for twenty years.

• Shore 8 · 1998
• Shore 2 · 2009
• Shore 3 · 2010
• Shore 4 · 2010
• Shore 5 · 2010

and 2 more works in the group

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Related works

The 2002 seascapes, numbered by him: the same water, three formats.

• Seascape 1 · 2002
• Seascape 3 · 2002

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How to cite

Ion Șinca, „Țărm 1 / Marină 2 / Fantasma râpei albe”, 1990. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0025. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/tarm-1-marina-2-fantasma-rapei-albe-1990/

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