Gili Mocanu, PAI Artist-in-Residence, Opening Reception

Studying at the National Academy of Art in Bucharest, Gili Mocanu's training systematically employ the strict rules and techniques of traditional oil painting. The result of such training presents itself in the meticulous precision of his work. Yet, underneath the order of the methodical technique is an undercurrent of disorder that exists subversively to the foregrounded order. Through visual tension and coded messages, we are reminded of the often indeterminable line between order and disorder