Ioan Ștefan PASKUCZ, born in Baia Mare in 1969, graduated from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, specializing in Architecture, in 1997, and later pursued postgraduate studies in architectural heritage restoration, with European training in architectural restoration, including an internship in Venice. As president of the Northern West Romania Chamber of Architects (OAR NV) from 2010 to 2018, he was responsible for cultural projects and organized summer schools and symposia on the theme “Syncretism between Arts,” in partnership with the Union of Visual Artists, Baia Mare branch, covering topics such as architecture and photography (2013), architecture and graphics (2014), architecture and painting (2016), architecture and music (2017), and architecture and theater (2018). He is the architect who brought the artistic heritage of the Artist Colony back to contemporary light.
The sketch presented here is one of the hundreds of drawings created for the rehabilitation project. Despite the new representation techniques that have invaded our daily lives and professions, drawing remains the first expression of the transformation of a thought, an idea. The drawing represents the façade of the Hollosy Gallery, this time addressing the architectural refurbishment and wrapping the building in a metal foil that would capture the organic color and, at the same time, the rhythm of the growing presence of vegetation in the courtyard of the Painters’ Colony.
