Camilian Demetrescu. Notebooks. Trip to Spain and metánoia (1979)
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Camilian Demetrescu, abstract art, Christian art, Romanesque art, metánoia, St. Antimo, Mircea Eliade, Romanesque symbolism, Islamic art, Beatus of LiébanaAbstract
This article study pages from unpublished notebooks of Camilian Demetrescu (1924-2012) that illustrate his transition from abstract art to his Sacred realism. The trip to Spain (1979), discussed in one of the notebooks, is pivotal in the reflections of Demetrescu about his position in abstract art. His experience begins with a search for alternative answers, exploring the abstract geometries of Islamic art, followed by the discovery of Romanesque symbols –with particular attention to the Mozarabic miniatures to Beato de Liébana’s Comments on the Apocalypse–. The journey ends in the abbey of Sant’Antimo (Italy), where the artist encounters a Byzantine-orthodox sculpture. This finding determines the inception of Camilian Demetrescu’s new paradigm.
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