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Born: Bucharest, Romania. Resides in the United States since 1990. Visual artist, teacher,author and filmmaker. |
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Florin Ion Firimita's mixed-media compositions are exploring universal themes through personal experiences. They are riddles born out of the juxtaposition of the real and the imagined, the private and the universal, the desire and the cancelled desire. He has been using both symbols linked to his family and Romanian roots, and found imagery, to which the artist is not initially related.What the artist pours into his art is a reflection of his interest in philosophy, music, photography, literature, film, nature, and history. He finds amazing sources of inspiration in everything surrounding him: his students� work; his walks around the streets of New York City or Paris; a Mahler symphony; Proust and Borges; a Godard film; a graffiti-covered wall; an old photograph found at a flea market. Firimita is trying to create a sense of mystery in which the viewer is invited to complete his cosmology. Meaning is never a one-way road, and therefore is always a result of a collaboration between what the artist is trying to communicate, and what the viewers are willing to see. |
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The End of Innocence (Graduation Day)
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Lilli
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Prayer
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The Offering
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The Commandement
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Reliquary no.3
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Before Sunset
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Losing My Religion
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Dreamcage #1
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Dreamcage #2 (Believe)
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Broken Sundays
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Beacon Hill
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Eight Ways of Fogetting
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Interior with Labyrinth
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Jim's Irish Boat
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Prosthetic Venus #1
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Romaire's Dream
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The Missing
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The Peacemaker
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The Sea Inside Us
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The Truth About Us
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The Witness
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The Last Breakfast of the Romanoff Children
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Winter Garden
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| ABOUT THE ARTIST: FLORIN ION FIRIMITA was born in Romania, where he started painting at the age of five under the influence of his father, an amateur photographer, and his mother, a fashion designer and a decorative arts teacher. He worked for many years as an assistant and apprentice to renowned artist Constantin Ciocarlie, then studied studio, mural painting and art history. Between 1986 and 1990, he worked as the Set and Costume Painter and also as the Production Manager for the Art Department at the National Theater of Opera and Ballet in Bucharest. In 1990, he immigrated to the United States. In the United States, Mr.Firimita graduated in May 1997 from Central Connecticut State University, with a degree in Art Education, and in 2005 with a Masters from the same university. He teaches, paints, exhibits, lectures and writes art-criticism, essays and stories about his experiences. He has been an artist-in-residence for both public and private schools in Connecticut, US, and worked as an art advisor for the Connecticut State Department of Education, during the 2000-2001 International Art Exchange Program, in The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He has been recently appointed co-director of the Summer Visual Arts Program at Central CT State University. In the past years, his artwork has become widely collected and requested in numerous exhibits in the US, Europe and Australia. In 1992, Mr. Firimita received an Honorable Mention at the National Arts Program, and in 1994 he was the recipient of the National Prize for Literature awarded by the New York University. In the United States, his writing has appeared, among others, in Works + Conversations, Tertulia Magazine, Many Mountains Moving, The Literary Review, The Sun, House Beautiful, and The Hartford Courant. In Europe, his fiction was published in England and France. He is currently working on his first novel, and was recently included in an anthology entitled "New American Writers." Mr.Firimita has received his American citizenship in 1995. His artistic evolution has been documented in the 2004 film "The Art of Leaving," directed by Brian Kamerzel. The film has been an official selection of the 2003 Santa Fe International Film Festival, the 2004 Durango Film Festival, the Artivist Film Festival, the IFP Film Market in New York City. Most recently, the film was screened at Steven Spielberg's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, and at the 23rd International Film Festival of Films on Art in Montreal (2005). SELECTED EXHIBITS 2007 - Art Gotham Gallery, New York City, USA - WAA Gallery, Wshington Depot, CT, USA - Marie Louise Trichet Gallery, Litchfield, CT, USA 2006 - Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA - The Pilot Pen Tennis Center at Yale, New Haven, CT, USA - White Space Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA 2005 - White Space Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA 2003 - ACT 2 Gallery, New Hartford, CT, USA - COSI, West Hartford, CT, USA - Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA 2002 - George Eastman International Museum of Photography,Rochester, NY, USA 2001 - Samuel S.T. Chen Gallery, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, USA 2000 - Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT, USA University of Connecticut, USA The Bushnell, Hartford, CT, USA 1998 - Good News Caf�, Woodbury, CT, USA Naugatuck Valley College, Waterbury, CT, USA P.S. Gallery, Litchfield, CT, USA 1996 - Emporium Gallery, Mystic, CT, USA 1995 - Miss Porter�s School/ Gilbert Gallery,Farmington,CT, USA 1994 - Small Space Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA 1993 - Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT, USA |
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