Veron Urdarianu’s work is concerned with the relationships that exist in art between painting, sculpture and architecture. His paintings are reminiscent of the works of artists de Chirico and Cezanne in their appropriation of the key components of three-dimensionality including the spatial shifting and temporal ambiguity that is most notably obvious in House with a History. Urdarianu has a predilection towards the muted palette, with warm-colored backgrounds visible through light-colored surface layers that, when seen in conjunction to his utilization of multiple viewpoints, creates a bizarre and isolating psychological space that exists beyond the constraints of time. Urdarianu was born in 1951 in Bucharest, Romania, and began painting in the 1960s. He moved to Amsterdam in the 1970s, where he studied sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. His work, which was first exhibited in Holland in the early 1980s, has been included in various group and solo exhibitions in the Netherlands. In 2005 he was included in “Imagination Becomes Reality, Part II: Painting Surface Space,” at the Goetz Collection in Munich and the accompanying catalogue which included an essay by Rudi Fuchs. His first solo exhibition in Germany, Constructed Paintings and Houses for the Mind, was held at Arndt & Partner in 2006 and included paintings and sculpture. He has since grown in popularity abroad and in the United States, and in 2007 was the focus of a solo exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York.
