Mind Maze Art
Unique artworks and painting commissions, created with oil on canvas, based on original ideas we crazily conceive together.
Alexa Young, CA
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Stefan Esanu’s work will arouse unexpected feelings that will make you feel alive and motivated to dig deeper inside yourself to find an unexpected YOU
Lisa Driver, MI
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Like many of us, I love and appreciate great things—and once good art has been produced, it has value today, tomorrow and the day after, and this is wonderful. The shelf life of a painting is longer than a human life. I would dare to say that art lasts forever: Michelangelo, Raphael and Degas delight us to this day.
My mission is to make lasting things, and ones that are not necessarily pleasant. Picasso's Guernica is not a delightful work, it is a sad yet lasting sonata. The basis of my art is that it has an idea, a desire, a vision, an understanding of things—through an artistic prism, of course, with a sustainable vision. My art comes from a particular context, from the spirit of the time, and exudes that vibe of the time, one that is suitable to humans in every corner of the earth.
For me, the idea behind a work is the most important element. Ideas are everywhere, and everything humanity has created and continues to create is due to an idea. An act of creation is born from an idea, and I thrive in this long and exciting process.
To shape an idea I work like a lathe—my brain beats the iron, shapes it, until I produce a durable, quality artwork with a strong idea behind it.
With this Mind Maze series, I explore the inflatable object, which I find is very similar to humans. Balloons have a clear shape and color, but their content is quite ambiguous. The internal pressure and weight of these colored objects refers to the human characters and habits. Ensembles of behaviors packed in wavy and shiny shapes collide in an endless maze, and I find that spectacular
In general, I produce series of works under the umbrella of a larger concept, and each work of art lives an individual life while carrying within itself the idea of ​​the main concept.
I want my audience to have their own idea of a work, and at the same time, I want them to come up with a completion of my idea. This is the greatest way for us to connect. For me, there are no taboo subjects—there’s just the fear of facing certain issues, which I try to appease in my work. I address subjects with a dose of sarcasm and irony, and this helps me and my viewers experience life more deeply.
In my work, several subjects intertwine at the same time: morality, justice, ambition, emptiness, stupidity, selfishness, among others. I regard my work as a kind of anthropo-artistic study: an observation of the human species. One of my main tools for that is irony.
Where does my art come from? From sarcasm, from desire, from satisfaction, from joy, sadness, depression. It comes from shapes and volumes, shades and content. The balloons in my artwork are about content, more specifically, about emptiness—an empty container that has been given shape, volume and color. If the air we breathe at the molecular level is quite dense and full of matter, you cannot say that there is nothing inside the balloons. Yet they are empty and desolate. How, and why? These are the questions I ask myself.
And with Mind Maze Art, I hope that my work will arouse unexpected feelings and questions inside you, too, so that you feel more alive and motivated to dig deeper inside yourself. Surprises await there.
