My name is Sebastian Hosu. I am from Transylvania, Romania and I currently live and work as a painter in Leipzig, Germany. I started to be interested in drawing very early on, maybe around 10 years old. Some years later when I was around 12-13 years old, I kept on drawing very seriously and I drew for more than 10 hours a day, during the weekends it would be even more. Then after a while, I just understood that drawing and painting were existential to me and the only real forms of expression. I think the flow of my life led me to become a painter.
My process of creating is all about a kind of vital energy that I receive through being inside my work, and that in turn affects my everyday life. It is like a continuous circle. I love the moments when people are disturbed by the presence of my paintings. I want to make them feel that my paintings are alive and can absorb them in their dynamic movement. To me, it is all about visual shock. I like to work with oil colour. They are very organic and intense. When I touch it, it feels to me like human skin. Warm-cold contrasts (orange-blue-green) bring a lot of vitality with them. I love that kind of contrast at the moment.
Everything that makes me want to start a new painting inspires me. This can be many different things. But generally I am interested in my work about landscape, space and movement. The meaning of nature for us humans especially in our days. How we perceive nature and the place of the human body in nature with all the artificial experience we have today. When I am painting, I am experiencing what it means to have freedom and taking risks on a higher scale. This helps me grow in life. To discover new realities that are probably already existing in my subconsciousness. My painting depicts reality – my reality. This also encompasses my idea of nature, which is in turn an expression of this reality. I see nature as a presence in painting that is archetypical and not illustrative.
