Without any doubt, Rece Alfred’s painting is an eye catcher for its Hyperrealistic approach.

Alfred Rece is an artist preoccupied with illustrating the ever changing mould of the human being, focusing on presenting iconic figures belonging to the past and the present.

The fast evolution of technology, scientific progress, the infinite discoveries of the new mankind, all these had brought changes in one’s thought and behavior. But his paintings draw attention to the best and worst of the past and the present: love, the innocence and beauty of our children, morals and humanity as values on one hand, and on the other, wars, sacrifice, manipulation, kitsch.

Being an Appropriationist in his compositions, Alfred Rece opposed the already famous images of kissing couples of the World War II to exclusively feminine figures of contemporary showbiz, commercial idols of the present civilization. All this in order to mourn the loss of innocence, of a romantic soul and of a sincere feeling (immortalized in real moments) and to signalize the focus of media set on nightmare constructions based on sexuality and grotesque. Alfred Rece creates a symbolic game in his compositions, opposing faces of the present to the iconic images of the past, striking the viewer with his message.

One can watch his paintings as visual elegies of an author suspended in time, also representing the fight to identify now the values of the past.

Diana Roman, art critic

Born on June the 8th, 1969 in Craiova, Romania.

EDUCATION

National University of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Bucharest:

1988 — 1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting

In the late 1990’s, Alfred Rece was part of an exquisite group of artists, “Crinul”, together with: Valentin Boboc, Cătălin Burcea, Francisc Chiuariu, Marian Maria.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

1993 ”Astra Gallery”, Sibiu, Romania

1994 “Arta I Gallery”, Craiova, Romania

2017 “Artfooly” Gallery Bucharest

 SELECTION OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

1992 “Dalles Gallery”, Bucharest, Romania

1994-2006 “Arta I Gallery”, “Atelier 35’’, Craiova, Romania

1995 “Căminul Artei Gallery”, Bucharest, Romania

1995-2006 The Art Museum of Craiova: ’’Salonul Artiștilor Olteni’’, Romania

1995 ’’Atelier Maceriene’’, Meziere, France

1996 “The Crinul Group”, The “Old Court” Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

1996 “The Crinul Group”, Mogoșoaia Palace Bucharest, Romania

1997 “The Crinul Group”, Cantacuzino Palace Bucharest, Romania

1998 “The Crinul Group”, Bancorex Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2007 Ion Țuculescu Prize: Atelier 35 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2007 Art Museum of Calafat, Romania

2007 Art Museum of Vidin, Bulgaria

2008 Cozia Gallery, Hame, Belgium

2009-2010 Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2012 Dominus Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

Paintings in private collections in: Romania, Germany, Austria, Italy, USA, Japan, Portugal, France.

Paintings in Art Museums’ collections: The Art Museum, Craiova, Romania; The Contemporary Art Museum, Bucharest, Romania.  

Awards:  2004 The Prize for Painting, Fine Arts Salon, Craiova; 2006 The Visual Artists Union Prize at the Fine Arts Salon, Craiova.