Ion Șinca · Related works

What connects
to what.

Groups of works that belong together for a particular reason — the same place taken up again years later, the same structure at another size, a series he numbered himself. The links are made by hand, not computed, and each group carries a sentence saying why. On each page the works are set to scale, side by side: for many of them, the size is precisely what changed.

25 groups

The Old House at Cornu · The Old House at Cornu…
The old house at Cornu, three times between 2005 and 2007 — once whole, once from another side, once only a corner. Which of them the detail was taken from is still to be settled; side by side, it reads more clearly.
3 works · 2005—2007
Acacias at Pietriceaua · Acacias
The same structure — blue-grey acacias over white slabs — taken up again nine years later, at almost twice the size. These are not two photographs of one work: they are two works.
2 works · 2002—2011
Landscape “Radzin Chełmiński” · Radzin Chełmiński
The same house, first in watercolour, then, a year later, in oil — the study becoming a painting.
2 works · 1984—1985
The Red Ravine · The Red Ravine
Two large canvases from the same year on the same motif: the ravine as a dark mass, with almost no landscape around it. Both are in the museum.
2 works · 1980
Râpă roșie · Râpă roșie
The name returns three decades later, in another register: a small watercolour and a light-coloured canvas.
2 works · 2011—2013
The Large Ravine · The Small Ravine
The 2007 pair: the same ravine, once whole, once from a corner.
2 works · 2007
Stânci · Stânci la Podul Cheii
The rocks from the 2002 campaign — the same stone seen close up, until it turns almost abstract.
2 works · 2002
Bank in Bloom · Bank in Bloom 2…
The flowering bank, three times: twice in pink, in 2002, and once in yellow and much larger, in 2007.
3 works · 2002—2007
Willows on the Plateau · Willows on the Plateau
The same willow plateau, seven years apart — the second time smaller and more wintry.
2 works · 2006—2013
Țărm 1 / Marină 2 / Fantasma râpei albe · Shore 8…
The „Țărm” (Shore) series — eight works between 1990 and 2010, the sea always seen from above, from the rock.
8 works · 1990—2010
Seascape 1 · Țărm 1 / Marină 2 / Fantasma râpei albe…
The 2002 seascapes, numbered by him: the same water, three formats.
3 works · 1990—2002
Spring Phantasm · Summer Phantasm…
The phantasms of the seasons — four works that close a year, painted six years apart from one another.
4 works · 2007—2013
Winter Phantasm 1 · Winter Phantasm 2
A pair: the same wide format, the same cool colour, the same hill with nothing to give the scale.
2 works · 2010
Phantasm 1 · Phantasm 2…
From the Phantasms series — the 2002 exhibition at the Ploiești Art Gallery, where he showed more than twenty works under the same name.
15 works · 2002
Willows 1 · Willows 2…
The willows of 2011 — five works from a single year, numbered by him.
5 works · 2011
Silver Willows (Brebu) · Silver Willows 1…
The silver willows: one at Brebu, in 2002, and two more, five years later.
3 works · 2002—2007
Saxon Houses 1 · Saxon Houses 2…
The Viscri campaign, 2012—2013: the Saxon houses, in oil and in watercolour, up to the large 125 cm canvas.
7 works · 2012—2013
Garden · Garden 2…
The garden, three times in 2002 — once on a square canvas of 122 cm, twice much smaller.
3 works · 2002
The Old Quarter 1 · The Old Quarter 2
The outskirts, in two works from 2013 — the same edge of town, from far and from close.
2 works · 2013
Landscape in the Doftana Valley · The Doftana Valley…
The Doftana valley, twenty-two years apart — the place returns in 1985, in 1991 and in 2007.
3 works · 1985—2007
Tree (study 1) · Tree / Fruit Tree (study 2)…
The tree studies — a single tree, begun again each time, from 1994 to 2010.
6 works · 1994—2010
Sunflower · Sunflower…
The sunflower, three times in eleven years.
3 works · 2002—2013
Geranium · Geranium in a Pot
The geranium, twice: on canvas in 2013, in its pot a year later.
2 works · 2013—2014
Vases with Flowers 1 · Vases with Flowers 2
The two vases of flowers from 2013, conceived as a pair.
2 works · 2013
Winter · Winter
„Iarna” (Winter), twice: 2007 and 2013 — the same title, the same snow, another eye.
2 works · 2007—2013

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