Ha[lito]sis

Lithography is a printing process that uses a flat stone or metal plate on which the image areas are worked using a greasy substance so that the ink will adhere to them, while the non-image areas are made ink-repellent. My first interaction with lithography happened in the second year of study when, from the need to find my peace in a place where I could work, where no one could distract me. I find this place in the lithography studio. There I picked a stone and I started to prepare it as it should then I drew on it with a greasy-based pencil. When I made the first lithography I found a feeling of joy, something different in this old technique that is used less frequently today and this fact got me closer to it. Lithography has attracted my attention from the beginning. I'm thankful I have the opportunity to practice this technique and enjoy a lithography studio in college. I like the studio, although it's tight and the press is like

Tăvală Cătălin was born in 1996, in Sibiu city where he graduated the theoretical high school ''Octavian Goga'' 2015, at the bio-chemistry department. In present, Cătălin is studying art at the Art and Design University in Cluj- Napoca at the graphics department.  Cătălin uses the traditional figurative drawing as the main mode of expression. He finds in the tehnique of drawing more than a daily occupation that captivates him- rather a rhythm, lifestyle, something vital that meets his need for knowledge and analysis of what is happening around him.        Drawing is a challenge for him who tries to analyze an objective image from reality to reach something subjective by specific means and this results in the creation of an intimate connection between this artistic approach, the challenge of rendering something and the artist.                         The themes approached by Cătălin are so common that sometimes we do not pay attention to them and

Halenă/Halitosis The title of the project has its origin in the fact that man is subjected to repetitive attempt and mistake, a phenomenon that grows unnaturally, bringing with it the smell of weakness. The project evolved based on my personal research  in the process of the decomposition of material and soul. The essential milestone is the common person, subjected to decay and defamation both on a physical and mental level . Organic or moral changes give birth to disordered, exaggerated images, a beauty found in a morbid poverty spectacle. The presented works are executed in different tehniques on different sizes, starting from a drawing in tar, then proceeding to the use of pastel and oil colours . I tried to draw by analyzing the image of a depraved world in which a grotesque   beauty of misery is concealed, occasionally interfering with elements or deformations to outline the relationship with the subject in a better way. In th