Neculai Fântânaru

Everything Depends on Who Leads

Just Look And See!

On November 08, 2022
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Leadership V8 by Neculai Fantanaru

A visionary creator captures hidden reality, revealing its essence through artistic and mystical expression.

I have always been attracted to the sea, the call of the waves, the night breeze that blows pleasantly in the middle of summer, all that atmosphere full of life, but at the same time relaxed. At the heart of it is an unstoppable drive towards infinity, towards the sky mirrored in the sea, towards the spiritual valorization of life, towards overcoming the boundless condition, because the sea itself, beautiful, laughing, so pleasant in the still time, suggests the infinity of space and time.

Yes, I know what it means to dream, because when you dream the soul of time rests. And something in the background, like a distant echo, in the hidden eyes of the endless horizon, urged me with a loving voice to lose myself in a torrent of sky-blue and green tones, exactly as the sea is seen in the color of the sky. Isn't that right? How many fleeting, but patient, observations do I have to gather to create a madness from a moving circle whose radius is equal to the length of the segment in the drawing, and which the sea completes with the image of an unlimited sky that is always above me, alternating with sunny days and unforgettable moments.

Thus I lost myself in the world of colors, in the sky of the world beyond reality, in an absolute concentration on the easel, parallel to the uninhibited attack of a stoicism of a special nature, which is not surprised by anything, a stoicism condensed behind the immortal (time) gazes, which does not recognize confusion, which does not know the sadness and servitudes with which we all encounter ourselves at some point. Of course, the artist in me is not only a collector of impressions, possessor of a remarkable memory, at least in the special line of a dynamic and expressive art that intentionally changes appearance. But it is also a demiurge, a cosmic designer who uses pre-existing elements, a microcosm, a creator of worlds that only a colorist of great virtuosity could capture, with great emotion, in spectacular settings.

Can you adopt a visual concept capable of representing the globality of a flat surface in relation to its mirrored beauty, playing a role in creating symmetry between things, phenomena and events?

If you have read Borges' work, then you probably know about the writer Jaromir Hladik, the author of an unfinished tragedy. He realized that he had two acts left and that he would soon die. So he talked to God in the dark: "If I exist in any way, God, if I am not just one of Your repetitions or mistakes, then I exist as the author of the play "Enemies". In order to complete this drama, which can justify me and justify You, I need another year of life. Grant me these days, You, who are the master of ages and times. It was the last night, the most terrible, but ten minutes later he sank into a dream as if into dark water."

Whatever genre of art he falls into, the creator has as his main object of study the man himself caught in a larger universe, as in a nebulous dream whose meaning always escapes you. Next to this man, you have the impression that an imperceptible thread mysteriously guides you into a space full of details that are still realistic, but stylized to the limit of the fantastic, by referring to a vision that is not limited to retrospective, but which rethinks your place and role in a context like: "Don't ask, don't tell. Just look and see.".

Look, just looking at the sea reflecting in the blue of the sky, I understood that in order to explain an abstract, symbolic, surrealist art, I am forced to declare that everything that seems to be the intuition of a new horizon, in the sense of an inner, dominating harmony, is nothing more than the role of an involuntary effort of abstraction with symbolic purposes. And even if I did not propose the abstraction of a theme not subject to a rigid, statistical or descriptive writing, something that would attract the abstraction of one world and the postulation of another, look, I happened to link the sky to the sea, the sand to the shells or the waves to the point where the wind generated them.

In other words, I did exactly what the Creator of the World did: I adopted a visual concept with which I was able to represent the globality of a flat surface in relation to its mirrored beauty, with a role in creating symmetry between lines, contours and curves, between people, things, phenomena and events. This visual concept can be expressed as follows: “What determines the color of a thing depends on the state you have when you look at its opposite, or an equivalent of it.”

Can you describe your creation as the result of the interaction between the perception of the landscape and its functionality in the ensemble of its various component parts, so as to build an alternative reality?

The unforgettable experience of a fulminating creation must follow the experiment of mirroring: through a fairly real representation of an image, through savoring the state of mystery of the inexpressible mirroring, one must be able to visualize the microcosm of your world, just as your world must exist in the holistic microcosm of the Divine Mind. This microcosm encompasses those interactions between objects, elements, phenomena, events, facts and processes, structures, with the various properties of their symmetry.

What is interesting to me is that sometimes the roar of the sea is reduced to the sound of waves breaking on the shore, appearing through the semicircle of a meridian called Opuninthis Steriadys(the impulse to contemplate creation through the eyes of God), to which is added the perspective of multiple, homogeneous space, open to the imagination by the condition of flatness: the quality of a surface to have all its portions as close as possible to a plane. If we take this into account, then the quality of the execution of a painting and the flatness are irreproachable only if they go as far as the "mirror" effect.

And, also here, hearing the sea crashing against the shore, smelling its salty smell, feeling the sun touching my body, watching the waves as they churn as if calling me to them, exploring the sand, the shells and... their free spirit, an image that takes precedence over exploring the appearances of the visible world, I somehow manage to expand my scope of considerations for a broader category of artistic creations.

At the antipodes between dream and reality, through the mind-soul connection, I realize that everything I see, as the only solution to suggest a dynamic world in the plan, is meant to symbolize an establishment of worlds in the light of eternity. Indeed, I am an artist because I know how to visually represent the hyperconnected globality of the world, in such a way as to convey a maximum of aesthetic information.

To expand the scope of leadership, you must visually explore, in your own way, the profound truths of life, but also the images from which unforgettable moments are built. Moments so simple, yet so full of story, that connect you to the concept of creation, as well as its spiritual reciprocal, suggesting the existence of an infinite spatial horizon.

Just Look And See! And what will you notice? A transcendental reality that only occultists believe in and which often seems to be nothing more than the personification of a "hidden force behind phenomena", underlying the world of appearances.

This transcendental reality can reveal itself as a memory of the future, as a solace for the soul, as an independent artistic construct, as an endless chain of phenomena, as a kind of succession of "color samples", or as a true manifesto towards the tendencies of vision to evolve along unpredictable directions.

A creator of great expressive power can grasp with his gaze what reality generally refuses to other people, by relating to a theme or an idea given by that transcendental reality that can only be approached with mystical and artistic means.

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