Anca Todrican - Harmonic dissonance 8

Harmonic Dissonance 8, 2026
Acrylic on canvas, 70/100 cm

Harmonic dissonance explores the tension between control and spontaneity, form and intuition.
Through decisive black structures and bands of vibrant color, the series reveals how contrast can give life to a new and unexpected harmony.

- Canvas already stretched on a wooden frame.
- Work ready to hang, the sides are painted.
- The painting is protected with a final varnish coating.
- Amsterdam colors, high brightness, won't fade, non-toxic.
- Each painting contains only high-quality materials.
- The painting is signed on the back.
- A signed certificate of authenticity will be included.

Biography

Anca Todrican is an abstract artist based in Italy, whose paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally, notably in Paris in 2024 at Galerie Thuillier.
In the last five years, her works have been purchased by collectors worldwide.

Anca Todrican in 2010 opened her studio in Rome and began her artistic career experimenting with an abstract language with a strongly expressionist vein. The works born from a creative impulse and realized with brush and spatula, favoring acrylic on canvas, are dominated by the energy of gesture and by color contrasts, symbolizing the force of nature with its continual change, expressed by rapid and intense touches of color on jagged, shifting patches. This research expresses the bond between humans and nature and represents life paths marked by a continual struggle between unstoppable events and the desire for harmony and quiet.

The desire to deepen the construction of visual space and to concentrate the expressiveness of color in a minimalist choice leads Anca Todrican to transform her artistic language and since 2023 she composes new works starting from a geometric composition that has no defined limits but that fuses one color into another, creating large essential forms founded on a sought-after balance between visual weights.

Dominating are white and black, as contrasts of light and dark, which give dimension and strength to the painting, enriched from time to time by a single color surprisingly intense, luminous and full of energy, which creates defined and contrasting spaces.

Each work has its own visual center and expressive center, where optical constructions converge.

A reflection on existence and the need to express oneself; thus in the vast timeless painted space of her canvases, the artist represents life, in the need for boundaries and at the same time for fusion of souls, in the desire for harmony and at the same time for expression of one's vital energy, and finally to mark her unique history in that solitary and intense gesture.

• Solo shows

2025
Breath of Shapes / Spazio arte contemporanea Campo Boario - Rome, Italy
2025
Pearl Yellow in Black Silence / Arte contemporanea - Milan, Italy
2018
Solo show / Spazio arte contemporanea Campo Boario - Rome, Italy

• Group exhibitions

2025
Tokyo Open Art | Art on Loop Exhibition / 3 Chome-20-18 Jingumae, Shibuya, | The Holy Art Gallery - Tokyo, Japan
2025
Black and White / Atelier 26 - Rome, Italy
2025
BEYOND FORM / Essenza astratta | Spazio arte contemporanea - Rome, Italy
2024
Top selection Paris 2024 | International Contemporary Art Award / Galerie Thuillier - Paris, France
2024
Future stars digital and physical exhibition in Barcelona / Carrer Sant Marc - Barcelona, Spain
2023
Salon d'artiste / IkiGai Art Gallery - Rome, Italy
2023
Anca Todrican / The Truman Brewery - London, United Kingdom
2023
Red... How? / GALLERIA LA PORTA DELL'ARTE - Rome, Italy
2022
"SPACE ONE" Show - International art competition / First edition 2022 / Sapienza School of Aerospace Engineering - Rome, Italy
2021
CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2021 / 9th Edition / Misericordia Archives - Venice, Italy

Publications

2025
Visual Art Journal - ART MAGAZINES | Issue
#27 | Anca Todrican
2024
ARTISTCLOSEUP CONTEMPORARY ART MAGAZINE- ARTISTCLOSEUP #16 Anca Todrican
2023
New & Abstract / Art Radar- Art Radar INTERVIEW Anca Todrican

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