Liviu Alexa was born in Romania on May 31, 1979. Although he was destined to become a French teacher, he chose the path of investigative journalism instead. Now, his brilliant debut in painting reveals another side of his personality, much less known and deeply surprising.
"I didn't study painting at university, but I studied people for twenty-seven years — through files, through sources, through documents. I saw evil in people in all its forms.
At some point, what I saw no longer fit in words. Not because I didn't find the right words—I'm actually quite talented—but because some things, when you formulate them too clearly, become bearable. That's why I paint what I can't write. A painting puts a vision in front of you, and leaves you alone with it.
H12 my art is to make you feel uncomfortable when you look at it. I don't paint to decorate walls. I paint to disturb the comfortable silence you bathe in, day in and day out."