14 Facts About Aida Tomescu

Aida Tomescu was born on October 1955 and is an Australian contemporary artist who is known for her abstract paintings, collages, drawings and prints.

Aida Tomescu was born in October 1955 in Bucharest, Romania where she lived until age 23.

Aida Tomescu arrived in Australia one year later, in May 1980.

Aida Tomescu studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest in the early 1970s.

The seed of her career as a painter became planted in Aida Tomescu while studying at the Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest in the late 1970's, when she closely studied the work of Cezanne and his legacy through cubism.

Aida Tomescu read Kandinsky's famous essay, 'Concerning the spiritual in art'.

Aida Tomescu's work has been informed by Paul Cezanne and cubism, and the ideas of Wassily Kandinsky expressed in his 1910 book Concerning the Spiritual in Art.

In 1986 Aida Tomescu was invited to the Victorian Print Workshop, now the Australian Print Workshop.

Aida Tomescu held her first exhibition "based on still-life" in 1979, in Bucharest.

Aida Tomescu has exhibited regularly in Australia and internationally, with over 30 solo exhibitions to date.

In 1987 Aida Tomescu exhibited in Canberra at the Ben Grady Gallery.

Art critic Sonia Barron, writing for The Canberra Times, was disappointed in the exhibition but found at least that Aida Tomescu communicated "a spiritual anxiety in her dark expressionist canvases".

Aida Tomescu's work was included in a major touring exhibition, Abstraction: Celebrating Australian Women Abstract Artists, a touring exhibition from the National Gallery of Australia.

Aida Tomescu, who is consolidating a reputation as one of Australia's most formidable living abstract painters.