Ioana was born in Bucharest, Romania, from Romanian parents, today nationalised French. She worked in Stuttgart with the artists Baumeister and Friedlander and continued her work in Paris where she has now a gallery in saint-German. Many of her paintings are kept in private collections as well as a few museums.
Ioana continues to paint actively in Paris and has continuous exhibitions all around Europe.
« Ioana, it is the perfection of the technics, the genius of virtuosity. It is rare, if not impossible, to witness in an artist such a control over the means of expression. One could think that Ioana was born artist, that her natural language, her maternal language is the one of painting because she speaks it with such richness, subtlety, infinite nuances... All these nuances, variations, refinements are so well orchestrated in a complex composition where colour becomes form and form becomes colour and where all the elements of the dynamical construction are articulated between and integrated within themselves, where all the voices are singing, all the moving forces oppose themselves and create a dialogue in an exquisite and admirable manner. »
Eugene Ionesco - 1966
« Ioana. Four vowels, light and sonorous, which are dancing and
jumping on one steady consonant. Ioana’s painting is at the same time
colour, music and dance. Spontaneity, joy, and vitality. Everything is moving,
is in the « becoming ». The moving colour is a brilliant background
on which is the drawing’s joy superimposed.
Signs of aerial lightness are floating on the colourful dreams’ smoke.
What is the colour of the wind ? asked a child to his mother. The answer
is found in Ioana’s paintings. Her painting has the colour of the wind.
In Ioana’s Icons, ingenuity and invention’s spirit form an alliance
with the colours’ magic. On old woods, prepared meticulously, the Bible’s
Pages, the Prophets’ laments, the last Judgement, the Saints’
faces are evoked through informal pictures where colour becomes the resonance
of the glass windows’, the twinkling of the precious stones, the grave
tones of the enamels. Mysterious signs coil and uncoil on rubbed down backgrounds
of those old woods which carry the precious print of revolved times.
Ioana likes small and large formats for her paintings and her icons. Her
exuberance and her freshness open us a door to an enchanted world.
Ioana is the small mischievous sister of Paul Klee. »
Ionel Jianou - 1975
« Happy, three times happy, free from all shackle of nature, who can
confess freely her most precious secrets, the softest, to the accomplice
canvas. »
Mac Avoy - 1989
Rome Galerie Selecta
Caracas Modern art museum
Milan Galerie Pater
Venise Galeria Cardazzo
Florence Galeria Numero
Orta Villa Crespi Municipio
Bologna Galeria Dantesca
Copenhague Galerie Haeghhfell
Munich Galerie Gürlitt
Bucarest Sala Dalles
Liège Galerie Moderne
Bruxells Galerie Ptah
Paris Galerie Sculptures ; Galerie Casenave ; Galerie Ror Volmar
London Galery New Art Vision ; Art Gallery
Médaille de vermeil de la Ville de Paris
Ordre de commandeur de l'Ordre de l'Etoile de l'Europe
Médaille d'Argent des Arts-Science-lettres
Médaille d'Argent de la Biennale d'Art contemporain de Montreux
Médaille d'Argent du mérite et du Dévouement
Médaille de Bronze de la Biennale d'Art contemporain de Montreux
Special Award Distinction Biennale Malte
Grand Prix Arts Plastique de France
If you want to enter Ioana’s world via the internet, please go to "Selection of paintings" to see a few of her paintings. Many others are available to see and to buy in Paris. Please contact the production for further information and eventual meetings in Paris, at her gallery or her private studio.
For more information's, please write us at: celiprod@club-internet.fr