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Nicolae Tus - a short biographical sketch
Born in Arad, a city in Western Romania comprised of small artisans and low-level officials. From the ethnic point of view, the city represented a melting pot of Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Jews, Serbs, Slovaks and Gypsies living together for many years in a spirit of understanding and cooperation.
The middle class family into which he was born noticed the young boy’s attraction toward symphonic music, continuously played by the ever present house radio, hired a violin teacher and also enrolled him as a student at the “Popular Arts School”. This school was created for the purpose of recruiting talented young school kids who were interested in pursuing an artistic career. His contact with this wonderful musical instrument, the violin, would open for this young boy a window toward the miraculously reverberating harmonies, to which he would permanently remain attached, although not as a practicing instrumentalist. Concurrent to these activities, he was also attracted to photography, as a means of artistically transforming reality as well as to the technical challenges it demanded. This activity, partial to the visual universe, also remained a constant presence during the passage of time and up to the present. During his last years in High School, he became, as a result of his success in this field, a member of the city’s Association of Artist Photographers. From the simple, rudimentary, black and white photography from childhood to the computer colored photography filled with refined effects, this entire initiation course was traveled by the artist one step at a time.
At age 14, he became ill. Bed ridden for an entire year, he had to abandon the violin lessons, but always remained fond of this instrument, as well as to classical music, continuing as a passionate listener, and being accompanied by it always, including, during his creative moments in his later years. Although confined to bed, he was able to apply himself to a different area of the arts, starting with drawing, doing pencil portraits from family photographs. In so doing, we realized that because of this unfortunate situation, his internal desire to express himself artistically, shifted from the domain of art, which became inaccessible, into a different plentiful one. After this interruption, the becoming young artist continued his schooling as well as the drawing lessons and he was also passionately involved with the choir activities organized by the “Palace of the Pioneers”. This Children’s Choir, well trained by a passionate conductor, Paul Paradenco, reached such levels of artistic skill that they were asked to participate, on several occasions, in concert with The Arad Philharmonic Orchestra including the nation’s gala premier of Carl Orff’s well known cantata Carmina Burana.
As an adolescent he was also attracted to Sci-Fi Literature, which opened his eyes to new horizons suggesting other possible worlds, with other rules and other laws, giving wings and new encouragement to his creative spirit. It is different and also uncommon to have the capacity to associate certain fixations, which in general are incompatible, between the humanistic part connected to the artistic imagination, and the scientific and technical parts which presume mathematical calculations and quantifications. On this last trait, he revealed his attraction toward ham radio operators, which materialize in the construction of communications and automation electronic equipment. Another achievement of technical significance even more spectacular for those days, realized by this young high school student and shown on the nation’s TV stations, was a remote controlled robot, which was part of an exhibition of useful and decorative objects built by the city’s high school students.
After his High School Graduation and finishing his military service, he continued his education and obtained an Engineering Degree and was employed in the Institute of Planning and Construction, where he performed his duties well, under exhaustive and poorly paid conditions. All this was taking place in a society in which, outside of the communist political elite, the majority of the population was living under extremely difficult conditions, overwhelmed by worry and without any hope for a better life. In 1982 he was able to leave the country and after a year spent in an Austrian relocation camp for refugees he emigrated to the United States where he is practicing and improving his professional technical qualifications. He spends his free time doing artistic photography, which allows him to interpret reality through electronic means, preferring landscapes and still photography.
Around 1988, following his own intuition, he tried a kind of lifecasting, modeling and sculpting, but without adequate materials, and resulting in a final product that did not meet expectations, he dropped the idea. About two years later he sees a TV program on this art form and through the internet gets in touch with a group of artists (ALI), which give him a chance to get slowly acquainted on how to choose his materials as well as better techniques to do the work. A decisive psychological impulse comes from a co-worker who convinces him to follow his call and dedicate all his efforts in the field, which attract him so much. In hindsight, the artist’s biographical representation offers an interesting and complex image as well as a constantly rising trajectory on quality. The sensitive nature of the artist is remarkable, being characterized through the presence of a multiplicity of aptitudes. His original attraction toward music, which was prevented by illness to manifest itself, bursts with intensity and takes hold through other forms of artistic expression, and then associates itself with fascinations from the technical domain such as photography, amateur radio, robotics/automation, all these co-existing through the medium of an internal fusion and a genuine form, particular to the artist. The artist’s biographical data suggests to us an encounter with a strong personality, intricately structured, characterized by the diversity of his anxieties as well as through his continuous desire to excel. Attempting a glance into the artist’s creative laboratory, we notice the existence of a restless spirit, always searching, a rapidly discharging imagination, altering the initial impulses of reality, followed by the organizing and sorting steps, which he truly finds essential, and finally, the meticulous refinement of each and every detail. The artist’s aspiration on himself and constant search for balance between shape and its meanings achieved through a tenacious and methodic labor with passion but also with rigorous self discipline until the final result is achieved.
For the artist who has achieved spiritual maturity after a lifetime of searching, the work becomes a place filled with suggestions and apprehensions, which entices the imagination, after which it mobilizes the will that is trying to reorganize the artistic imagination from the mental plain into the relevant matter which it chooses, while the reason and the critique of spirit slowly eliminates the nonessential details. Music is always the one, which accompanies this effervescent creativity, giving wings to fantasy and finally bringing about a, definite equilibrium to the finished work. As far as the receptivity of the observer is concerned, perceptions are configured in relation to his or her experiences, preferences, as well as his or her spiritual complexity. At times we can be enchanted, at other times alienated while still at other times it simply invites us to contemplate life, its values and its meanings. This is what Nicolae Tus, the artist whose most noteworthy biographical elements I have attempted to present in the lines above, is trying to convey to us through his work.
This biography was written by Mr. Alexandru Braica, renown Romanian Art Critic
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