Alexandru Chira was a deeply symbolic, multi‑dimensional artist whose practice bridged material, place, and imagination. Often referring to himself as a “master of utopia,” he worked across painting, drawing, installation, land art, film, theoretical texts, and essays to construct a personal cosmos of images, words, and emotional resonance. His art was defined by a complex iconography: geometric “gear‑poems,” mandala-like structures, and allegorical machinery that merged rural life, cosmic ritual, and spiritual invocation. Rooted in the experience of his native village Tăuşeni—including the memory of a decade‑long drought—his work embodied a belief in art as a transformative system, blending functionality, ritual, and poetic intent. His visual language featured abstracted symbols‑objects that echoed both religious myth and agricultural machinery, reflecting his ongoing interrogation of communication, transcendence, and the interaction between the terrestrial and the spiritual. Chira approached art as a holistic, autopoietic system—speaking across intellectual, emotional, tactile, and ritualistic domains—creating a territory where abstraction became encoded experience. ...
