Otilia Cadar unfolds the human beauty

Combining her influences from surrealism, digital art and photography to explore beauty, innocence and elegance in painting, Romanian artist Otilia Cadar redefines the human figure, with a special interest for the relation between human and animal.

Living in a society often obsessed with ugliness, Otilia offers an alternative of beauty and love, thus expressing her own view of what the world could be.

The Hominid series is inspired from archaeological findings. The artist recomposed the creatures according to the available archaeological data.

Lucania, 2013, 150×100 cm, oil on canvas

Cnidaria, 2013, 150×100 cm, oil on canvas

Hydroxy, 2013, 150×100 cm, oil on canvas

An extension of her 2009 project in Berlin, Intimate Zoomorphism of Spirit, the Beauties and Birds series connects the gracefulness of bird symbols with feminine beauty: “I am a huge admirer of beauty and I hunt it wherever I am. When I say beauty I mean an attitude, a gesture, an ambience, a certain style, gracefulness… an unavoidable attraction that captures your attention and you can’t get away from it anymore. Second because we are surrounded by too much ugliness, meanness and hate that I wish to tip the balance to the other side. I feel it’s my duty”. Further emphasizing on the chosen symbols: “And because we live in a world where almost everything is genetically modified, mechanized and industrialized, the birds I create carry the marks of this world. They have metallic elements and mechanisms. These elements appear repeatedly in my works, as they are a subject that obsesses me”.

Carla, 150×100 cm, acrylic on canvas

Iva, 150×100 cm, oil on canvas

Strida, 150×100 cm, acrylic on canvas

Yumiko, 150×100 cm, oil on canvas

Guiana, 150×100 cm, acrylic on canvas

The Diary Windows project is a “reflexive visual journal”: “It’s a way of introspection and discovery rising from the need to uncover the hidden world of my inner self”. In order to represent the feelings that haunt her, Otilia uses colours with a powerful symbolism.