Urban Landscape (Peisaj citadin)*
Description
Medium: oil canvas mounted on cardboard
Size: 21 x 20 cm (37.5 x 36 cm with frame)
Signed on the front lower left in red: "R. Dărângă"
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania
Location
Bucharest, Romania
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Description
Radu Dărângă developed his practice outside conventional academic channels, forming instead through direct apprenticeship in the field of ecclesiastical restoration. Working under Arutin Avachian — director of historical monument restoration from 1961 — he gained hands-on experience in the technical and iconographic demands of Orthodox mural painting, contributing to restoration work at Sfântul Ioan de la Bucur Obor in Bucharest, the paraclis at Curtea de Argeș, and Sfânta Precista Church in Bacău. This grounding in Byzantine pictorial tradition and conservation practice shaped the sensibility that would inform his subsequent work as an independent painter.
His exhibition debut came in 1979, and he was admitted as a member of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania in the 1980s, with the support of sculptor Adrian Popovici.
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