About the Artist
Edith Torony was born in 1988 in Timisoara, where she lives and works. She graduated in Painting from the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timisoara. She earned her MA in the same field from the same institution in 2012. She has been a member of the Romanian Union of Artists, Timisoara branch, since 2011.
She presented her works in solo shows at Senso Gallery, Bucharest, 2022; Estopia Gallery, Lugano, 2021; Five Plus Gallery, Wien, Estopia Gallery, Bucharest and Forma Gallery, Deva, in 2019; Pygmalion Gallery in 2018; Senso Gallery, Bucharest in 2017 and Calpe Gallery, in 2014, Timisoara, among others. She has participated in numerous group shows at Triade Gallery and Helios Gallery in Timisoara; Museum of Art, Arad; Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; European Parliament, Brussels; Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin etc. She won the first prize for Painting at the Meeting Point International Biennial in Arad in 2017. Also in 2017, through Senso Gallery, she participated at the Positions Art Fair, Berlin.
Mission and Values
What you will see here is a perpetual search in the way I choose to think differently and to create myself as a visual seeker.
Simplicity is valuable to me. Ideas come from everywhere, but they grow best in solitude.
I like to reconstruct the world, to isolate things from their context, parts and elements from my compositions, reducing everything to what is essential, so that the subject will look as if it had been there for a long time, very natural, just expecting to be seen like that.
Awareness is important, also the way you think and observe the world. I like contradictions and I think freedom is not something we can achieve, it is what we choose to have from the start in creating unconventional distinctive works.