Cosmin Marian Guta (1994) - “Dialogue between opposites” - XXL
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Cosmin Marian Guta presents the original 2026 mixed media on canvas artwork titled “Dialogue between opposites,” a contemporary portrait measuring 145 by 180 cm, hand-signed, in excellent condition, shipped unframed from Spain directly by the artist.
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• Title: “Dialogue between opposites”
• Artist: Cosmin Marian Guta
• Year: 2026
• Technique: Mixed media on canvas, pastel, ink oil and acrylic on canvas
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* Painting dimensions: 145x180 cm painting
* Total fabric dimensions: 155x190 cm (with about 3-4 cm of free space on each side for framing)
* SHIPMENT WITHOUT FRAME / SHIPPING WITHOUT FRAME
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• Style: Contemporary, in which I use mixed media and organic matter that, when manipulated, takes on a tactile quality reminiscent of human epidermis. The surfaces of my works become skins that breathe, scar, erode, and transform. They are sensitive maps where memories, marks, and silences are inscribed. I am interested in that crossroads between the physical and the symbolic, where matter seems to have a life of its own.
• Shipping: Packaged and boxed in a cardboard tube
• Signed on the front of the canvas
• Note: Colors may vary slightly compared to photographs
• The work is unique.
***The artwork will be shipped in a cardboard tube, with a tracking number, via an internationally known carrier, for example (FEDEX, UPS, TNT)***
Description
“Dialogue Between Opposites”
At the heart of the canvas, opposites stop fighting to learn each other’s language. Flesh and landscape, calm and vertigo, light and shadow intertwine in a dance where no force seeks to prevail. Each brushstroke seems to be born from a different emotion, and yet all converge in the same pulse.
The central figure rises like a bridge between worlds. Its extended arm does not point to a destination; it invites contact. Around it, fragmented bodies, faces that emerge and fade, currents of color twisting like thoughts, build a universe where chaos finds an odd harmony.
The vibrant tones do not seek to describe reality, but to reveal its inner tension. The greens embrace the purples, the reds burst among deep blues, and each contrast recalls that beauty does not arise from uniformity, but from dialogue. Color argues, contradicts, listens, and finally reconciles.
“Dialogue Between Opposites” speaks to the human condition: we are light and wound, desire and memory, fragility and resilience. We inhabit the boundary between what we are and what we long to be, between the impulse to cling and the need to let go.
The work does not propose an answer; rather it offers a space where opposites cease to be enemies and become mirrors. And in that silent exchange, we understand that all transformation begins when what seemed irreconcilable finally chooses to converse.
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Thank you for visiting my work and please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any information
Biography
Cosmin Marian Guta (1994) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome until 2020 after graduating with the highest honors. He completed an Erasmus in Barcelona (EASD LLOTJA) and an 8-month internship at an art gallery (RocíoSantaCruz).
Instagram: CosminMarianGuta
Email: gutartgallery@gmail.com
Web: gutartgallery.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
● C.C.Cotxeres Sants - curated by Nuria Esterri, Barcelona (2024)
● C.C.Cotxeres Sants - curated by Jose Parra, Barcelona (2022)
● Rome Art Week, Fax Factory curated by Maria Teresa Rasulo, RAW2016, Rome 2016
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
● Abartium, Calldetenes (Vic) curated by Eva Cunill, (2023)
● Artjove-Cotxeres Sants Casinet – curated by Jose Parra, Barcelona (2021)
● Cristo-Scuderie Palazzo Chigi Albani – curated by Paolo Berti, Soriano nel Cimino (2019)
● Sala dei Gessi del museo Andersen (workshop), curated by Gian Luigi Cappelletti and Alessandro Dolfi, Rome (2019)
● Towards a Lighthouse, curated by Antonio Giordano, Floriana Celani and Maria Pennacchia at Forte Stella, Monte Argentario, Tuscany (2019)
● Tiny Biennale 2018 – Temple University Rome – curated by Shara Wasermann, Rome (2018)
● LIMEN ARTE International Prize, ix edition, Vibo Valencia (2017)
● Aula Colleoni Academia di Belle Arti di Roma 2017.
● Tiny Biennale 2017 – Temple University Rome – curated by Shara Wasermann, Rome (2017)
● Pinacoteca Comunale Gaeta "Il vuoto, tra senso e forma” curated by Antonio Lieto (2016)
● Festina Lente Sala Corner D MAXXI Rome (2016)
● Latina Biennale (2016)
Seller's Story
Cosmin Marian Guta (1994) is a Romanian contemporary artist whose work sits at the crossroads of figurative painting, mythology, and emotional exploration. His work stands out for its strong symbolic charge and an intense aesthetic, where the human figure becomes a vehicle for psychological and timeless narratives.
He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he completed his studies in 2020 with the highest grade. During his academic phase he broadened his artistic perspective through an Erasmus program in Barcelona, at EASD Llotja, a city that would later become a key point in his professional development. In Barcelona he also did internships at the RocíoSantaCruz gallery, an experience that reinforced his direct contact with the contemporary art circuit.
The artist's work is characterized by the use of mixed media on canvas, where oil, acrylic, ink, and pastel converge. His compositions, of intense visual force, explore themes such as identity, myth, the body, and deep emotional states, giving rise to scenes loaded with tension, symbolism, and an almost dreamlike atmosphere.
Guta works with material intuitively, building his paintings through successive layers of materials, textures, and gestures. In this process, the surface acquires a tactile quality that recalls the human epidermis: the fabrics seem to breathe, scar, erode, and transform over time. The works thus become living skins, sensitive maps where memories, marks, and silences are inscribed.
In many of his compositions there is a subtle line or division on the pictorial surface, a natural outcome of the very process of stratifying matter. More than a formal element, this presence functions as a conceptual axis within the work. For the artist, painting reflects how human identity is constructed: not as a perfect continuity, but as a layering of experiences, memories, and fragments of time.
These divisions suggest pause, transition, or a scar; they indicate rupture without denying the unity of the whole. In this way, each painting is configured as a field of accumulated time, where each layer preserves the imprint of what came before and each fracture participates in a deeper totality.
He has presented his work in solo exhibitions in Barcelona, in cultural spaces such as Cotxeres de Sants (2022 and 2024), and has participated in international artistic events such as Rome Art Week in Rome. He has also been part of numerous group exhibitions in Spain and Italy, including projects linked to institutions and museums such as the Andersen Museum in Rome.
Translated by Google Translate• Title: “Dialogue between opposites”
• Artist: Cosmin Marian Guta
• Year: 2026
• Technique: Mixed media on canvas, pastel, ink oil and acrylic on canvas
------------ ---------------
* Painting dimensions: 145x180 cm painting
* Total fabric dimensions: 155x190 cm (with about 3-4 cm of free space on each side for framing)
* SHIPMENT WITHOUT FRAME / SHIPPING WITHOUT FRAME
---------------------------
• Style: Contemporary, in which I use mixed media and organic matter that, when manipulated, takes on a tactile quality reminiscent of human epidermis. The surfaces of my works become skins that breathe, scar, erode, and transform. They are sensitive maps where memories, marks, and silences are inscribed. I am interested in that crossroads between the physical and the symbolic, where matter seems to have a life of its own.
• Shipping: Packaged and boxed in a cardboard tube
• Signed on the front of the canvas
• Note: Colors may vary slightly compared to photographs
• The work is unique.
***The artwork will be shipped in a cardboard tube, with a tracking number, via an internationally known carrier, for example (FEDEX, UPS, TNT)***
Description
“Dialogue Between Opposites”
At the heart of the canvas, opposites stop fighting to learn each other’s language. Flesh and landscape, calm and vertigo, light and shadow intertwine in a dance where no force seeks to prevail. Each brushstroke seems to be born from a different emotion, and yet all converge in the same pulse.
The central figure rises like a bridge between worlds. Its extended arm does not point to a destination; it invites contact. Around it, fragmented bodies, faces that emerge and fade, currents of color twisting like thoughts, build a universe where chaos finds an odd harmony.
The vibrant tones do not seek to describe reality, but to reveal its inner tension. The greens embrace the purples, the reds burst among deep blues, and each contrast recalls that beauty does not arise from uniformity, but from dialogue. Color argues, contradicts, listens, and finally reconciles.
“Dialogue Between Opposites” speaks to the human condition: we are light and wound, desire and memory, fragility and resilience. We inhabit the boundary between what we are and what we long to be, between the impulse to cling and the need to let go.
The work does not propose an answer; rather it offers a space where opposites cease to be enemies and become mirrors. And in that silent exchange, we understand that all transformation begins when what seemed irreconcilable finally chooses to converse.
---------------------------
Thank you for visiting my work and please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any information
Biography
Cosmin Marian Guta (1994) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome until 2020 after graduating with the highest honors. He completed an Erasmus in Barcelona (EASD LLOTJA) and an 8-month internship at an art gallery (RocíoSantaCruz).
Instagram: CosminMarianGuta
Email: gutartgallery@gmail.com
Web: gutartgallery.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
● C.C.Cotxeres Sants - curated by Nuria Esterri, Barcelona (2024)
● C.C.Cotxeres Sants - curated by Jose Parra, Barcelona (2022)
● Rome Art Week, Fax Factory curated by Maria Teresa Rasulo, RAW2016, Rome 2016
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
● Abartium, Calldetenes (Vic) curated by Eva Cunill, (2023)
● Artjove-Cotxeres Sants Casinet – curated by Jose Parra, Barcelona (2021)
● Cristo-Scuderie Palazzo Chigi Albani – curated by Paolo Berti, Soriano nel Cimino (2019)
● Sala dei Gessi del museo Andersen (workshop), curated by Gian Luigi Cappelletti and Alessandro Dolfi, Rome (2019)
● Towards a Lighthouse, curated by Antonio Giordano, Floriana Celani and Maria Pennacchia at Forte Stella, Monte Argentario, Tuscany (2019)
● Tiny Biennale 2018 – Temple University Rome – curated by Shara Wasermann, Rome (2018)
● LIMEN ARTE International Prize, ix edition, Vibo Valencia (2017)
● Aula Colleoni Academia di Belle Arti di Roma 2017.
● Tiny Biennale 2017 – Temple University Rome – curated by Shara Wasermann, Rome (2017)
● Pinacoteca Comunale Gaeta "Il vuoto, tra senso e forma” curated by Antonio Lieto (2016)
● Festina Lente Sala Corner D MAXXI Rome (2016)
● Latina Biennale (2016)
Seller's Story
Cosmin Marian Guta (1994) is a Romanian contemporary artist whose work sits at the crossroads of figurative painting, mythology, and emotional exploration. His work stands out for its strong symbolic charge and an intense aesthetic, where the human figure becomes a vehicle for psychological and timeless narratives.
He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where he completed his studies in 2020 with the highest grade. During his academic phase he broadened his artistic perspective through an Erasmus program in Barcelona, at EASD Llotja, a city that would later become a key point in his professional development. In Barcelona he also did internships at the RocíoSantaCruz gallery, an experience that reinforced his direct contact with the contemporary art circuit.
The artist's work is characterized by the use of mixed media on canvas, where oil, acrylic, ink, and pastel converge. His compositions, of intense visual force, explore themes such as identity, myth, the body, and deep emotional states, giving rise to scenes loaded with tension, symbolism, and an almost dreamlike atmosphere.
Guta works with material intuitively, building his paintings through successive layers of materials, textures, and gestures. In this process, the surface acquires a tactile quality that recalls the human epidermis: the fabrics seem to breathe, scar, erode, and transform over time. The works thus become living skins, sensitive maps where memories, marks, and silences are inscribed.
In many of his compositions there is a subtle line or division on the pictorial surface, a natural outcome of the very process of stratifying matter. More than a formal element, this presence functions as a conceptual axis within the work. For the artist, painting reflects how human identity is constructed: not as a perfect continuity, but as a layering of experiences, memories, and fragments of time.
These divisions suggest pause, transition, or a scar; they indicate rupture without denying the unity of the whole. In this way, each painting is configured as a field of accumulated time, where each layer preserves the imprint of what came before and each fracture participates in a deeper totality.
He has presented his work in solo exhibitions in Barcelona, in cultural spaces such as Cotxeres de Sants (2022 and 2024), and has participated in international artistic events such as Rome Art Week in Rome. He has also been part of numerous group exhibitions in Spain and Italy, including projects linked to institutions and museums such as the Andersen Museum in Rome.
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Artist
Cosmin Marian Guta (1994)
Edition
Original
Sold by
Direct from the artist
Sold with frame
No
Title of artwork
“Dialogue between opposites” - XXL
Technique
Mixed media
Signature
Hand signed
Country of origin
Spain
Year
2026
Condition
Excellent condition
Colour
Green, Multicolour, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red, Yellow
Height
145 cm
Width
180 cm
Weight
3 kg
Depiction/theme
Portrait
Style
Contemporary
Period
2020+
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