Oana Greab
Fărcaș.
Inner Microcosm
Emotion takes form. Colour gives it substance.
An entire world within a painting.
Spirals, veins and rhythms of colour: an entry into Oana’s inner microcosm.
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An inner world.
A voice in colour.
Oana Greab Fărcaș was born in 1990 in Târgu-Mureș, Romania. After graduating from the High School of Arts, she studied at the Faculty of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with the distinction Magna cum laude.
Oana Greab Fărcaș explores the emotional microcosm through oil painting. Organic forms, nuclei and networks of colour create a language of closeness, vulnerability and transformation.
I paint the inner microcosm: the ways emotions gather, touch and take shape. I begin with my experience as a woman, with love, longing, vulnerability and the need for freedom.
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Bachelor’s and master’s studies in art, Cluj-Napoca. Magna cum laude distinction.
„My work is an ongoing dialogue between the conscious and the subconscious, between the seen and the unseen.”Statement published in the press · 2026, translated from Romanian ↗
Inner Microcosm
From afar, a presence. Up close, a world.
Circles, nuclei, spirals and organic networks invite us to read painting as an emotional microcosm. Marks of colour gather into forms; the spaces between them hold the tension of closeness and the freedom of distance.
The relief of oil paint catches light along its edges. A stroke, a break, a change of rhythm becomes visible as you move closer. The whole comes together as you step back. Between these two distances, each viewer can discover their own resonances.
My microcosm ↗Forms of an
inner world.
Shore of a Living World
How close can I be to someone without losing my own outline? Here that question takes form: small enclosures of colour touch, share their edges and each retain an interior. Orange warmth gathers within turquoise paths beside a deep blue-green expanse.
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Inner Constellation
I can love and fear in the same instant. I can feel strong while holding something very fragile within me. In this form assembled from distinct marks, I find room for simultaneous feelings. Each can remain present within the whole.
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The River That Dreams
Sometimes I need a simple continuity I can follow without knowing where it leads. Blue offers such a path here. It bends between yellow edges and gatherings of pigment, holding broad movement and small pauses together.
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Inner Horizons
I carry places whose details have faded but whose atmosphere remains precise. Blue and ochre gathered above a dark edge give me that sense of recognition here. Forms approach houses or silhouettes and remain open enough for memory to work between them.
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Suspended Architectures
This question returns before a structure that seems to stand above its own uncertainty. Black lines support rooms of colour, while the blue beneath remains mobile. I let openings matter as much as edges: through them, the construction stays connected to what it cannot control.
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Presence
I can be present without explaining myself completely. That possibility matters to me. The woman’s outline emerges and recedes into colour, keeping a space of her own. Between figure and ground I seek a visibility that respects what remains intimate.
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Signs at the Table
A table can hold the rhythm of lives around it. I think of pauses, nearby hands and the objects between which a conversation finds room. The cup and vessel offer familiar reference points here, while black marks cross them and disturb their stillness.
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A moving portrait of the artist and her creative process.
From the studio,
into the world.
Art Capital 2026 · Grand Palais, Paris. The paintings meet their audience in a new setting.
Beyond the studio.
In dialogue with the world.
Colour meets its audience.
Exhibitions in Paris and Rome, coverage in the Italian press and encounters that extend the lives of the paintings. Discover the artist’s public journal.
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