Ion Șinca · Critical writings
The critical writings
The saintly face of a painter: Ion Șinca
Ioan Mihai Cochinescu · writer and artist · In Memoriam, 2024
To describe the artist is an act of daring, of pride, and therefore a futility close to the sad attempt to describe God himself, ever. The echo of a bodiless shadow. A cry in the darkness of the…
Notes from an archive of affection · Fragments on the teacher Ion Șinca
Lect. univ. dr. Andrei Mușat · 1 October 2024 · In Memoriam, 2024
Apart from a very few close friends, not one of Mr. Ion Șinca's pupils knew him entirely. The teacher's presence in the school studio was of a resonant discretion. Far from any opaque muteness, our…
Florin Șuțu
Florin Șuțu · painter · retrospective catalogue, 2016
Ion Șinca withdrew into the History of Art long before his time, dressed in his white shirt, impeccably starched (I never understood how he managed to wear it without creasing it), leaving behind for…
Luiza Rădulescu Pintilie
Luiza Rădulescu Pintilie · coordinating editor of „Ziarul Prahova” · In Memoriam, 2024
The colours at the border between the human and the divine… The late discovery, and then the too-few remaining meetings with the artist and teacher Ion Șinca, won me over — as a journalist all too…
Marcel Bejgu
Marcel Bejgu · painter · In Memoriam, 2024
Coming to Ploiești at the age of 15, passing the entrance to the Art High School, Ion Șinca began the arduous road of painting. He came down from the village of Pietriceaua, Brebu commune — Luchian's…
Florica Ionescu
Florica Ionescu · painter · In Memoriam, 2024
Ion — a gentle soul, of a noble discretion, wise, burning within, the walls of his heart lit by the masterly dances of the flames of love and inspiration. Industrious, in love with life, with the…
Florin Șuțu
Florin Șuțu · painter · catalogue, 2007
Ion Șinca brings back into the present the ever-invoked obsolescence of the motif, of figuration — not through an expedition into gratuitous abstractions, but by focusing on a detail, on the…
Cornel Sântioan Cubleșan
Cornel Sântioan Cubleșan · from the volume „Micul montparnas” · catalogue, 2010
The life of the painter Ion Șinca is a phantasm that has the shape and colour of his painting. The phantasm of Șinca's painting is the shape and colour of childhood, of the birthplace. The phantasm…
Ruxandra Ionescu
Ruxandra Ionescu · art critic · catalogue, 2010
A painter and teacher among the best known of his generation in Ploiești and Prahova, Ion Șinca is a name and a case apart in his generation. In this exhibition too you recognize, without doubt, a…
Serghie Bucur
Serghie Bucur · journalist · catalogue, 2010
The filter upon the retinas of the master Ion Șinca has the power of reduction to essences and the vocation of expressing them through so natural a mastery of the colouristic miracle that the…