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The magic world of her drawings

   "First I want to call her  designs, jewelers... the work is painstaking, craftsman, drawings seem very fine filigree.
.    Each design proposes cons, advantage: a vision, sometimes a confession, a foray with a roundabout kind of solution for plastic strain of thought.
 
Indeed, what the artist may be called plumb the depths. Not an obsessive repetition. And when they resume again and again, a line, a silhouette, the contour of a face she happens to great results: beautiful drawings, dominated by the quiet of transparency, the tranquility of the revelations.

The drawings seem to be metaphors and they are echoing the dazzling lyricism.
There is a natural incapacity of the artist to comply with the rules of the game of the moment is to say, social or worldly.

It is far from the context, it is far from mundane. There is throughout it a second thought continuously, the need for beauty ... And yet she does not always seek beauty.

The drawings offer more, a journey into a world of weighing, interpretations of the texts were not thinking, voice access to large dark fears and joyous to the plains of eternal love, to calm and serenity of motherhood assumed.

They are also drawings of an age, rather the paradoxes of an age. They offer an enthusiasm filtered through wisdom, a mysterious adventure in a library covered with cobwebs.

I wrote this twenty years ago, for the brochure accompanying the exhibition of the artist at the Gallery "Caminul Artei" of Bucharest.

  The last 20 years have strengthened the subtle side and access to the esoteric in its creation.

Far too quiet for this world, parsimonious with itself, demanding and reticent, Elena Boariu is shown separately in plastic landscape of home.

His discretion is not being straight with us, a world that wants to praise first.

I knew I was a very young writer in a publishing house, counsel sought an editorial cartoonist for the illustration of my book "The Time for Colors."

The irony was that, economy, the book should appear ... with designs in one color ...! There was no money for more colors.

Then he had to find someone who could save the situation.
Vasile Olac, himself a successful designer said: "It Boariu Elena, she is the best!"
Her words are kept in memory and today, in 2009, I have the same opinion. It is the best.

Elena Boariu signed illustrations for two of my books in 1979 and 1980.
I never felt the perfect meeting between the text and vision plastic.

It has made our meeting a remarquable moment. We remained friends, and I am grateful because she has transformed art into a moment of pure artistic symbiosis, unparalleled.


Elena Boariu

born October 24, 1942 at Dumbrava, Neamt.
Institute of Fine Arts "Nicolae Grigorescu" in Bucharest, section graphics.
Member of the Union of Plastic Artists.
Since 1971 has participated in national exhibitions, international, she signed the picture for a few dozen books, including many books for children.

A graduate of the best book of the year 1972, national and international awards, honorable mention Bratislava in 1983 for a period it has been an illustrator for the publishing house "Didactica pedagogica "de Bucarest and "Alexandru Sahia "studio  documentary movies.

Some art critics and writers have commented on his work as: Corneliu Radu Constantinescu, Cornel Ostahie, Tudor Octavian Mihai Drișcu, Val Munteanu, Vasile Munteanu .
Wife of writer Tudor Opris which she illustrated some of his books.

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