Dinu Corina - What the Flames Kept

Condition: 全新
Material: 油画颜料、丙烯颜料、拼贴画在画布上
Size: 60 × 40 cm
Colour: 金色、琥珀色、木炭黑、烧橙色、绯红
Shipping method: 快递，全程保险，专业包装
There are things that survive a fire. This painting is about those things.
What the Flames Kept is a mixed media work built in layers — collage elements laid into the canvas first, then covered, partially obscured, and partially revealed through successive applications of oil and acrylic paint. What remains visible from beneath the surface — fragments of image, text, human silhouette, architectural detail — were not placed there by accident. They are what the fire decided to keep.
画面下方露出的可见部分——图像碎片、文字、人体轮廓、建筑细节——不是偶然放置的。它们是火灾坚持保留的痕迹。
The palette is gold, amber and charcoal black, with flares of burnt orange and deep crimson pushing through from beneath. The surface carries significant relief — paint applied in mass, scraped, dripped and pooled — giving the work a physical weight that photographs suggest but cannot fully convey. In certain light the gold reads as incandescent. In shadow, the black absorbs everything around it.
调色板以金色、琥珀色和木炭黑为主，下面透出的烧橙色与深绯红色如火焰般跳跃。表面具有明显的浮雕感——大面积涂抹、刮擦、滴落、汇聚，赋予作品一种照片难以完全呈现的实体重量。在某些光线下，金色显得如同白昼般炽亮；在阴影中，黑色吸收周围的一切。
The upper left carries traces of geometric mark-making — lines and forms that read as script, as architecture, as memory — while the lower register dissolves into pure chromatic energy. The tension between order and destruction is the subject of the work.
左上方带有几何记号的痕迹——像文字、像建筑、像记忆的线条和形状——而下方区域则化为纯粹的色彩能量。秩序与毁灭之间的张力，是这件作品的主题。
Technique: Oil and acrylic paint, collage, impasto, dripping
Technique: 油画颜料、丙烯颜料、拼贴、厚涂、滴漏
Style: Abstract Expressionism / Art Informel / Mixed Media
Style: 抽象表现主义 / Informel 艺术 / 混合媒介
Year: 2024
Year: 2024
Edition: Unique — 1/1
Edition: 独一无二 — 1/1
Signed: Yes
Signed: 是
About the artist:
关于艺术家：
What the Flames Kept is a work by Corina Dinu, a Romanian artist born in 1979 with formal training in fine arts and design, including studies at Istituto Marangoni. Driven by a lifelong passion for beauty in all its forms, Corina works across painting, sculpture, and fashion — creating objects that are at once technically demanding and visually immediate. Her paintings belong to a practice of accumulation and excavation: layers built until the surface tells the truth about what lies beneath.
What the Flames Kept 是罗马尼亚艺术家科瑞娜·丁努（Corina Dinu）的作品，生于1979年，拥有美术与设计的正式培训，包括在 Istituto Marangoni 的学习经历。科瑞娜对美的长期热情驱动她跨越绘画、雕塑与时尚领域，创作出既具技术难度又视觉直观的作品。她的绘画属于“积累与挖掘”的实践：层层堆叠，直至表面讲述隐藏在下方的真相。