In the Pulsatilla exhibition, the artist Daniela Vîrlan approaches a new direction in her artistic practice. Even if the subjects of the paintings are novel, we recognize specific elements of the artist’s creation.

The exhibition, curated by Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, is presented by Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery.

Daniela Vîrlan (b. 1987 Bucharest) graduated from the Bucharest National University of Graphic Arts in 2011. In 2008, she received an Erasmus scholarship at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Rome. In 2017, she was a finalist in the Teodor Moraru Painting Scholarship and in the Crama Opriṣor Contemporary Drawing Competition, and 2013, she was nominated for the Strabag Artaward.

Personal exhibitions: 2020 – Arcana Majora, 1001 Arte, Bucharest; 2019 – A world in the Water Mirror, ALERT Studio Artist-run Space Bucharest; 2014 – Amor Fati, Gallery IX, Bucharest.
Participates in various personal, group exhibitions and events: Contemporary Drawing in Romania, Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery, Between heaven and earth Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery Bucharest, Noi suntem iele. / Word without singular 2022, Manasia Hub Bucharest, Salonul de Grafică Românească 2021, 2022, Art Safari 2021, Weekend of Galleries and White Night of Galleries several editions, Bucharest Art Week 2019 Bucharest, FRISS 2011 Budapest, etc.

Daniela Vîrlan works mainly in oil on canvas, watercolor and ink on paper. Taking elements from reality or symbols from universal human consciousness, the artist builds synergistic, symbiotic or antagonistic relationships between the elements that populate her artistic universe. The elements are engaged in a continuous relationship with each other, generating symbolic dynamics. The seemingly spontaneous forms, but with references to elaborate realities, reveal an unpredictable continuum, a flow of surprising associations and juxtapositions: angels, birds, Madonnas, monsters, figures caught in Brownian motions.