Eugen Roșca completed his academic training at master’s level in Cluj-Napoca, where he consolidated a practice grounded in precise draftsmanship and a disciplined use of colour. His participation in exhibitions in Bucharest, Cluj, Berlin and Hong Kong signalled an early interest in curated narrative environments, reflected in projects such as The Knife Seller, The Image Hunter, Artificial and Profound, Style Exercises and The Brush Factory. These presentations emphasised his concern with visual rhetoric, theatrical framing and the construction of meaning through character-based scenarios.

Roșca’s work engages with a repertoire that evokes the observational clarity of Dutch painting and the staged expressivity of Commedia dell’Arte, although these affinities are filtered through contemporary modes of representation. His compositions bring forward figures caught in states of tension, contemplation or subtle unease, arranged in settings that heighten the psychological register of each scene. Through this structure, the artist examines the behaviour of individuals in spaces shaped by fiction, performance and coded gestures.

The paintings rely on a measured interplay between line and chromatic density. Historical formats are frequently reinterpreted and set alongside references to naïve idioms or elements drawn from twentieth-century popular imagery, generating a hybrid language that accommodates both quotidian detail and metaphorical suggestion. Roșca’s interest in archetypal silhouettes, office interiors, masks or fragmentary dialogues contributes to a body of work that rewards attentive viewing. The resulting visual field operates as a system of layered signs, inviting the reader to navigate its shifting tones, ambiguities and structural subtleties.