Adrian Vasile CHIRA, born in Baia Mare in 1963, graduated from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the University of Art and Design in 2004, specializing in photo-video image processing. Since 2014, he has been a university lecturer at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca – Northern Center in Baia Mare, and since 2013, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the “Union of Visual Artists of Baia Mare” Association. In 2016, he received the Artist of the Year award for his entire creative activity, presented by the Municipality of Baia Mare.
Adrian Vasile CHIRA has a plastic perspective, and the decrepit wall deserves to be seen as an association of colors and textures. Perhaps this is how the deteriorated world we know is seen through the eyes of an artist. This way, we better understand the plasticity of the broken fence in Grigorescian landscapes and the fascination with Venetian walls throughout time; we only need to have the right eyes for the walls of our city. The artist envelops you with a metaphorical atmosphere from which a symbolic heroism emerges. From the simple to the complex, the artist reveals sensations of noli me tangere and questions meant to combat the virtuality of reality through surrealities intersected with chimeric spaces. (Vasile DUDA). This time, the present image is a photograph of a landscape captured on the body of an abandoned train car in a station.
