Cosmina Ene

Cosmina Ene (born 1968) is a French painter. She lives and works in Paris. She has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows in London, Paris and New York City.
Early Life and Education
Cosmina was born in Romania in 1968. Due to the Ceausescu regime she and her family exiled to France. As early as eight years old, she started to learn painting. She attended courses at the studios of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she practiced painting, drawing, sculpture as well as etching and lithography. She studied painting techniques with François Bard (1959- ) in Paris and Euan Uglow (1932-2000) in London. They both influenced her art by their composition rules and their colors secrets.
In 1993, she travelled to Japan for one year and fully embraced the Japanese culture by studying calligraphy under the direction of a great Japanese master. In Tokyo, she saw for the first time Fu Baoshi paitings and Hokusai’s world famous prints. Hokusai’s use of the color blue fascinated her.
Career
In 1998, Cosmina discovered Mark Rothko’s (1903-1970) and Jackson Pollock’s (1912-1956) as well as major art work of American Abstract Expressionists in Museum of Modern Art in New York. Under their influences, Cosmina abandoned figurative painting and adopted an art work oriented to abstract. Since 2006, she has named her canvas with the dates in which she started them. She adopted a unique style dominated by yin yang composition. Through her paintings, she aims to invoke the viewers’ introspection of the self.
She exhibited her first abstract works in the Grand Palais Paris in the Salons of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts and Salon des Indépendants where she made her first sales to private collectors. So far, Cosmina had 7 solo exhibitions and attended more than 20 group shows.
Other Projects
In 2010, the owner of a yacht berthed in South Riviera commissioned her 15 paintings to exhibit on the ship, transforming it into a “Floating museum”. In 2013, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest surviving bank in the world and Italy's third largest bank founded in 1472, selected two of Cosmina’s paintings (Emotions Ardentes and Etincelles abyssales) to illustrated their annual calendar.
In January 2013, Société Générale, France's third largest bank, sponsored and organized a solo exhibition in their main office in Paris.
Bibliography
* Anaëlle Poix, COSMINA, Pulsions de Vie, Visio Dell’Arte, Paris, November 2011, ISBN 978-2-919309-00-9
* Anaëlle Poix, Un Lien Génétique avec l’Histoire de l’Art ( A Genetic Link with Art History), Visio Dell’Arte, Paris, July 2013, ISBN 978-2-919309-03-0

* Anaëlle Poix, COSMINA, Painting the Invisible, Paintings 2005-2013, December, 2013,ISBN 978-2-919309-04-7
Press
* La Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, Atmosphérisme et abstraction poétique, June 20, 2008, pp. 256
* La Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, L’ « atmosphérique abstrait » de Cosmina, February 27, 2009, pp. 234
* L’Officiel des Galeries & Musées, Cosmina, March 2009, pp. 13
* La Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, Cosmina vibrations temporelles, October 8, 2010, pp. 234
* La Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, Cosmina pulsions de vie, November 18, 2011, pp. 353
* La Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot, Cosmina tableaux inedits, November 16, 2012, pp. 344
French Television
* National French Television
- Paris est à vous (Paris is yours), Karine Vergniol, Paris, BFM TV, February 28, 2014, from 1:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m

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