Press Release
Mild, polite, withdrawn, Florin Mitroi had nothing of a ripper. Good husband, father and professor, he could have been a perfect pen pusher. Yet he was a cagey artist, whose work cut through him. Anti-narcissistic, Mitroi was absorbed by painting opaque mirrors on reverted glass, a fragile, though cutting surface. He tore apart his persona, both in drawings manipulating his countenance as to become younger or older, male or female, demonic or dull, and in...