VLAICU IONESCU—THE ARTIST Much more than the old masters, the modern artist evolves from the concrete image of the object to a more sophisticated interpretation. In our century, the search for new forms of expressions became sometimes so abstract oriented that it got astray not only from the sensorial aspect of things but also from any geometrical expressionist, or even oneiric, or visionary interpretation. After killing the object, after an analytical division in atomistic variety of elements, after simplifying and rejecting, the artist arrived to dead ends like a white square on a white surface” beyond which he could not go, except by putting in the frame a clean and empty canvas. As a modern artist, Vlaicu Ionescu also experienced several modes of expressions. He evolved from the sensorial image to structures more purified in form and substance. But what is interesting in his evolution is the fact that he didn’t abandon one way for another. The last two exhibitions in Bucharest (1968 and 1969) and the following ones in Munich (1969-1970) have shown his understanding in organizing pure forms and colors. In search of an invisible face of reality, the pictorial metaphors are taken from cells and micro-biological structure, constructed on (and against) a non-figurative background close to the abstract expressionism. The result has been a visionary expression of a transcendent level of being, a sort of intermediary level where the demiurgical forces seem to convey the non-manifested in manifested reality. This part of pictorial research has continued during the artist’s residence in America. But parallel to this research, Ionescu has cultivated and developed the previous one: a figurative rendering of the object, yet far from any kind of realism. The impressionist experience gave him a key to express a color by its spectral components and to enhance it by juxtaposing complementary tones.
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ルーマニア出身の古画鑑定士・修復士、哲学博士、そしてノストラダムス解釈の第一人者です。
ヴライク・イオネスク(Vlaicu Ionescu, 1922年4月1日-2002年2月26日)は、ルーマニア出身の古画鑑定士・修復士、哲学博士(ブカレスト大学)。ルーマニアの首都ブカレストの出身で、共産主義政権下のルーマニアで2年間の投獄経験をもつ。1955年頃、アメリカに亡命し、本格的にノストラダムス解釈を行うようになる。のちに全米ノストラダムス協会の会長となった。
処女作は『プロレタリア時代に関するノストラダムス・メッセージ』(フランス語、1976年) で、1987年にパリの出版社から刊行された『ノストラダムス 世界の秘史』や1991年に角川書店から出版された『ノストラダムス・メッセージ』(監訳者竹本忠雄) は、その改訂版ともいえる。
イオネスクはアナトール・ル・ペルチエを崇敬し、その後継者を自認していた。その解釈手法はオーソドックスなもので、占星術による時期予測やアナグラムによる暗号解読などを行なっていた。
しばしば指摘されるように強い反共意識が随所に垣間見える点が際立っていたが、その中で1991年6月にソ連が崩壊すると解釈していたことは、ソ連崩壊後に予言的中と話題になった(ただし、ソ連の公式な解体は1991年12月)。先立つ1991年春に来日し、フジテレビ深夜特番への出演や筑波大学での記念講演などをこなした。
VLAICU IONESCU—THE ARTIST
Much more than the old masters, the modern artist evolves from the concrete image of the object to a more sophisticated interpretation. In our century, the search for new forms of expressions became sometimes so abstract oriented that it got astray not only from the sensorial aspect of things but also from any geometrical expressionist, or even oneiric, or visionary interpretation. After killing the object, after an analytical division in atomistic variety of elements, after simplifying and rejecting, the artist arrived to dead ends like a white square on a white surface” beyond which he could not go, except by putting in the frame a clean and empty canvas.
As a modern artist, Vlaicu Ionescu also experienced several modes of expressions. He evolved from the sensorial image to structures more purified in form and substance. But what is interesting in his evolution is the fact that he didn’t abandon one way for another. The last two exhibitions in Bucharest (1968 and 1969) and the following ones in Munich (1969-1970) have shown his understanding in organizing pure forms and colors. In search of an invisible face of reality, the pictorial metaphors are taken from cells and micro-biological structure, constructed on (and against) a non-figurative background close to the abstract expressionism. The result has been a visionary expression of a transcendent level of being, a sort of intermediary level where the demiurgical forces seem to convey the non-manifested in manifested reality.
This part of pictorial research has continued during the artist’s residence in America. But parallel to this research, Ionescu has cultivated and developed the previous one: a figurative rendering of the object, yet far from any kind of realism. The impressionist experience gave him a key to express a color by its spectral components and to enhance it by juxtaposing complementary tones.