Ion Șinca · Press

Press and film

What was written and filmed about him, from a magazine page in 1986 to the reports on the 2024 exhibition.

From the paper archive

The press of the time

Cuttings kept by the family, scanned from the originals.

Revista „Luceafărul”, 4 octombrie 1986, cu reproducerea lucrării „În Cântarea României” — Luceafărul · 4 October 1986 — „În Cântarea României”

Articolul „Un artist pe drumul certitudinilor” de Ion Voicu, cu portretul pictorului desenat de Nicolae Kruch, 1986 — „Un artist pe drumul certitudinilor” (An artist on the road of certainties) · Ion Voicu, 1986

Four films

On film

Two television programmes from 2010, in which he speaks himself, and two reports — one from 2001, one from 2024.

Suetă · Prahova TV, 2010 · part I

He speaks about his autumn exhibition, the artist's situation in a difficult economy, his pupils and fine-arts students — and about waiting for that “magic client”.

Suetă · Prahova TV, 2010 · part II

He goes on about childhood, his native village and autumn, his favourite colours, the wife with whom he has shared his life for over 25 years, and the life of the studio.

Report · Actualitatea Prahoveană, 2024

A report on the in-memoriam exhibition „Note despre o arhivă afectivă”, Ploiești, 2024.

Film · 2001

Ovidiu Paștina's opening, Ploiești Blood Transfusion Centre — with Ion Șinca, Dan Platon, Ruxandra Ionescu and other colleagues. Filmed by Doina Voica.

Elsewhere

References

Where his name appears outside this site. Every link was opened before being put here; if you find a dead one, tell us.

What was written about him

Signed reviews and reports, in the order they appeared.

Announcements and press releases

The institutions' own documents — the Artists' Union and the museum — recording the exhibitions and, in 2014, his death.

Records and encyclopaedias

Entries written by others, which we do not control. They are here because they are usually the first thing anyone searching his name will find.

Auctions and selling platforms

Artmark is the auction house through which a few works have passed; Saatchi Art is a profile he opened himself. Neither tells you where a work is today: a passage through an auction is a moment in the life of the work, not its address. What we know for certain about owners is on the Collections page.

On paper

Printed bibliography

Books that mention him and are not online. To be found in a library, by their number.

Arte frumoase în Prahova (Fine arts in Prahova), Ploiești, 2016, p. 274.ISBN 978-606-6930-53-6
Cornel Cubleșan, Montparnasse de Est. Cartea cu pictori (Montparnasse of the East. The book of painters), Libra, Bucharest, 2023 — contains a chronicle on Ion Șinca’s painting. His text in the 2010 catalogue was long attributed, here and in the press, to a forthcoming volume called „Micul Montparnas”; the author has told us this is not the case.title, publisher and year confirmed by the author, 19 August 2026

The critical writings ↗ · Cornel Cubleșan's poem, on the home page ↗