TINCUTA MARIN

“Towards the time when outlines fade and the world drowns, slowly, in the barely audible murmur. My figures do not speak. They sit silently, like rows of sentinels. Red runs through them and sculpts them from within, like a flame-less burning. They are bodies which no longer ask for anything, but in which something endures,” Marin reflects.

In her paintings, bodies dissolve into currents of colour, their outlines flickering and softly glowing at the margins of perception. Heads tilt and double, faces overlap, eyes remain closed in contemplation. The figures are less portraits than vessels—conduits through which silence and memory pass. Fine linear drawings cutting across the pigment like mysterious writings. Inspired by myth and the decorations in Egyptian funerary chambers, each work becomes a stratified surface, a palimpsest of layered times. In the half-dark of Marin’s world, beings seem to hover between apparition and relic. Marin’s practice is defined by the invention of a personal mythology. The divine figures the artist imagines reflect the continuity of history, their forms inspired by ancient art yet resonant with the fragmented and dynamic aesthetics of modernism. This interplay bridges the ancient and the contemporary, reinforcing the protective strength of these motifs while highlighting their relevance today. The emphasis on the female figure, central to many ancient cultures, celebrates its supernatural and creative significance.

Tincuta Marin’s exhibition spans painting and sculpture. Her surfaces move between raw immediacy and deliberate refinement, while sculptural elements carry the imagery into space. Recurring motifs—arched doors that suggest passages, one-eyed profiles that blur the real and the mythical, and radiant, heightened colour—signal her exploration of the tension between the sacred and the everyday, the real and the imaginary. During these troubled times, marked by profound political and social crises, the reactivation of magical thinking— long intertwined with artistic expression—emerges as a form of protection, a symbolic threshold. Marin’s imagination becomes the driving force behind her creative expression, acting as a foundational principle. Her work captures the fluidity between reality and fantasy, blurring the lines between the two.

With Gloaming, Marin reawakens magical thinking, underscoring both the enduring power of myth and the necessity of art in uncertain times**.**