How free is the color? How much is reasoning, perception, feeling, symbol or chance? Relying on the power to perceive, associate, re-evoke or enter into a synesthetic relationship with the work, Mando’s art is dedicated to the purity and intrinsic valences of pigments and explores, on the one hand, the instinctive act, spontaneous of the original experiment with the materiality of color, and on the other hand, it questions the way of looking, in fact the conflict between what we see and what we think we know.
In Romania, painting is still a powerful medium. Romanian-born painter Mando is currently based in Maastricht. He is self-taught. His abstract painting is actually a mixed media, which he does not want to reveal.