Talented children and their painting exhibitions

A Romanian child's paintings and their European scope

Ana-Maria Cononovici, 28.02.2023, 14:00

She may be 12 years old, but she does not play at painting! Nay, in early February, at the International Conference
Centre’s Constantin Brancusi Exhibition Hall, on the premises at the Parliament
Palace, Giulia Pintea opened her first sole exhibition in Romania, themed A
Symphony in Colours. Giulia Pintea is a Romanian-born painter, a French
Riviera resident, of Canadian and Italian nationality. Giulia came to the
attention of the artistic milieu of the country that has given the world some of
the greatest painters in the history of fine arts. Giulia
Pintea has had sole exhibitions before, all across the French Riviera, but also
in England, Germany and Spain. Giulia was the pupil of the famous French contemporary
painter José Curti, known for his abstract, semi-figurative works which pay tribute
to the imaginary by mixing colours that are always surprising. Actually, the
famous painter attended the inauguration of the little artist’s sole exhibition.

Giulia Pintea’s exhibition themed A Symphony
in Colours allows visitors to have access to a mystery: that of the synchronization
of two worlds in a mirror, the world of the imaginary and the real world. Giulia’s paintings have already been purchased by private collectors in France,
England, Ireland, the USA, France and New Zealand.

Giulia is fluent in four languages: Romanian, Italian, French
and English. She was kind enough to spin the yarn of her early days as a fine
artist, and her exhibition in Romania.

Giulia Pintea:

Ever since I was little, I have always liked to
create, to paint. I inherited that trend from father and destiny favoured my
encounter with painter José Curti, who inspired me in the abstract with acrylic
style. It is A Symphony in
Colours the painting of the exhibition, it is The Encounter of the Angels, which
is the first painting I created, it is The Guitarist, my favourite painting,
then there is Le Voyage vers le Lumière Journey
to the Light, very many people adored. My professor was very proud of me and said it was very beautiful. I paint
because I love to paint and that makes me happy and I want to convey this joy through
colours. I paint for about 2, 3 hours a day. It takes me 2 to 5 hours to paint
a large painting and roughly two hours for a small one.

Giulia met 73-year-old artist Jose Curti when she was 6, in May,
2016. Together with her mother, she followed in Picasso’s footsteps and stopped
in front of the canvas artist Jose Curti was painting in the Artists’ Square in
the Antibes and, amazed with what he was doing, she approached him. A kind of synergy
occurred between them and ever since José Curti has become her mentor. Shortly afterwards,
motivated by the mentor, when she was only 6, Giulia had her first exhibition jointly
with her mentor. And, when she was 8, Giulia opened the gates of her first sole exhibition
in France, in February 2019. Then she had another exhibition in England, in
October, 2019, and another one in Germany, in December, 2019. The impetus of her
success was somehow stifled during the pandemic, when she only
exhibited her works in Spain, in May 2021, and also as part of the Roman Camp
staged by the MAI Academy.

We asked Giulia if she wanted to be like some well-known
artist. We also asked her if, apart from painting, there was anything else she
would like to do.

I just want to be like Gulia
Pintea. I also do swimming, ballet, acting, acrobatic circus, basketball, canto
equitation, aikido, piano. Ever since I was little, I got used to doing that, and
ever since I was little, I have been doing lots of activities. My colleagues have
been very nice with me, I made friends very easily, and they support me in my
passion.

Giulia’s mother, Alexandra
Pintea, told us why her daughter chose Romania for her exhibition.

Because her origins are Romanian and I don’t know
that by hearsay but Giulia, ever since she was little, she spent her holidays
in Romania and in camps staged in Romania and she wanted so much to share with
the Romanians the joy she conveys through her paintings. I am grateful to all those who came to Giulia’s inauguration. There was a great number of people there, from all over the
place, from all over the country. They came from Satu Mare, her grandmother with
my brother, with everyone else, our cousins. It was impressive, their
mobilization, former colleagues at the university here, in Bucharest and in Craiova.
They also came from abroad, her father with Giulia’s godmother, from Italy,
cousins from Germany came over, they came from France, her mentor, Jose Curti,
came, he was here at the opening with a group of six artists who adore her and who have
always supported Giulia and all the fine people were there, among whom I should
like to mention the Miniton group, who literally opened the event and to whom we
are very grateful, there also was presenter Roxana
Ioana Gavăr Iliescu.

Giulia Pintea donates part of her works to humanitarian causes, for
the support of the underprivileged children. The artist is also passionate about
acting, ballet, piano, the art of circus and canto, areas where she scooped awards. Giulia’s name only adds up to a great number of names of children with
Romanian origins, whose genius, at a very tender age, has enjoyed worldwide recognition.(EN)