Studio Notes

An ongoing archive of essays, interviews, research and curatorial texts documenting the thought processes behind the practice.

• I Need a Spade

  A text about SEEDS, about painting leaving the wall and being brought down to ground level, and about the question that has accompanied the series for ten years: what changes when we alter the place from which we look at painting?

• Tick the Box That Says You're Not a Robot

  Trust is shifting from the text to the authority that guarantees it — in art as in AI. Adrian Dică argues that the authority of an artwork rests on lived testimony about the creative act, and names the institutional risk "authority laundering".

• Bohemia Never Dies, It Just Self-Preserves

  Bohemia does not disappear: it self-preserves by strategically retreating from the market into slow time, the unfinished work and the uncalculated gesture. Adrian Dică traces the mechanism from the cave to the algorithm, via Bourdieu and Warhol.

• What Trust in an AI Answer and the Authority of an Artwork Have in Common

  In a culture where texts can be generated instantly, authority is shifting from content toward source, context, and network. Adrian Dică traces this movement across artificial intelligence, artistic provenance, and the role of art.

• Series Over Single Works: A Painter's Case for Process

  Romanian painter Adrian Dică on why series-based practice — from his graduation series to PREAPOCALIPTIC and Seeds — builds clarity, consistency and depth in painting research.

• Every Work Deserves Its Own Archive

  A short essay on why documentation — website, catalogue, digital archive — has become part of the artistic practice itself, not an administrative afterthought.

• Urban Puzzle (2014): The Bachelor Project That Shaped My Artistic Research

  A retrospective look at Urban Puzzle, my Bachelor project completed at the National University of Arts Bucharest. Awarded the Faculty of Painting Excellence Award, the project marked the beginning of my long-term artistic research into memory, urban landscapes and the traces of human activity.

• Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024 – A Milestone in My Artistic Journey

  A first-hand account of exhibiting at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024, from the selection process and artwork delivery to the Private View and the sale of my painting for £6,000.

• Art on a Postcard 2024 – My Experience at the 10th Anniversary Charity Auction

  Following my participation in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024, I was invited by Gemma Peppé to contribute to the 10th Anniversary Art on a Postcard charity auction. Both paintings from my Seeds series were exhibited at Gathering London and successfully sold during the auction.

• London Art Biennale 2023 — My Experience as a Selected Artist

  A first-hand account of exhibiting at the London Art Biennale 2023, from the international open call and selection process to exhibiting at Chelsea Old Town Hall in London.

• Undeniable Illusion of Pink — curatorial text by Diana Andrei

  Curatorial text by Diana Andrei for painter Adrian Dică's solo exhibition "Undeniable Illusion of Pink," Arthalle Gallery, Bucharest, October 2019.