Heading throughout my entire artistic journey, my focus has always been investigating the expressive potential of the human body. I am creating worlds where the figures are rather re-formed than de-formed, while retaining a core of figurative form of expression. I peel off the rigid forms and then I put them back together in a texture and contextuality that reveals constant new meanings, and through which suggested new forms are barely emerging and breathing a life of their own.
I do believe in the potential and complexity of the traditional “oil on canvas”, as a primary medium for creating and expressing my ideas. Sometimes I switch to mixed media, where I find comfort in a fast-paced process and an intricate realm of textures delivered by materials previously selected.
My compositions go to a preliminary stage where images with aesthetic potential my images database are edited in Photoshop. I see a canvas as a stage where all the elements are actors who enter and perform specific roles. Some are quiet, some are loud, some are multiplied, and some are subtle and ephemeral, who all surround and enhance the main character. I view my responsibility, in a way, like the one of a cinematography production, namely, to make sure that each character and even element reacts and performs at the right moment and at the right time.
The narrative of the realms I am creating is deeply rooted in my heritage. I come from a land of rich folklore, traditions, legends and myths.
I come from a land where people are humble, but they tell magnificent stories. Their stories are continuously being told in my paintings, as fragmented dreams that come together in subtle ways. I let the intuition of the viewer to interact with these stories without any forceful intervention and constantly strive for their magnificence to be revealed through my work.
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Romanian Artists
There are vigorous signs at the painting level by Mihail Tomescu that customize his creative approach; first of all, a remarkable quality of the pictorial invoice, coupled with a depth of the cerebral and affective support, the definite proof of solid articulation of language, of training in a continuous spiritual flow.
In a time of the predominance of the show that is often consumed at the level of purely optical effect, ephemeral, circulated both first media and through art. The young Romanian painter, from Cluj Napoca, manifests himself as an impatient promoter of an anthropocentric approach, keeping man at the center of the universe and the evocative investigation of essences.
To give the basis and duration of his imaginative invocations Mihail Tomescu makes recurs to memory: Hence that popular revelation of images of ethereal facts and archaeological insignia born from the foam of the seas, from the kingdom of shadows, from the illuminations of the burning magma (Pompeii... an hour before, Minos, Miraculous Fishing, Centaur cornering Chimera and so on). In a beautiful reconquering attempt, a personification of the human aspiration towards completion is realized, displaying splendors of the eternal feminine, shipwrecks to a wonderful world, fauns and singers under the spell of music, configurations of Edenic spaces steadfast under the zodiac of eternity. It is instilled at the level of evocations and a nostalgic air, a discreet elegiac breath in aura like compositions of an enigmatic metaphorical thrill. Emblematic is on this disturbing cycle thread Song for a night bird in which the feeling of a tireless vigil is cultivated, waiting for certainties.
What gives consistency and fascination to Mihail Tomescu's painting arises from the memorable sense of matter and modulation of accents, from the constant will and concern to invest the pigment and the overall tuning the entire capacity of expressive sound. NEGOITA LAPTOIU
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Romanian Artists
Arc 200
ISBN: 973-97341-3-5
Artworks in private collections
The Miraculous Fishing, mixed media on paper, 25×35cm, 2002
