Category: Essays


  • Robert Hromec è consapevole che lo specchio sia un oggetto semioforo, una forma invisibile che rende visibile… l’invisibile. Nei suoi lavori, risulta essere quella metafora della nostra esistenza che permette di intercettare l’altro da noi, uno stargate dimensionale che separa il mondo reale (superficie) dal mondo riflesso (sostanza). Le sue opere ci spiazzano e ci…

  • The artistic course of Robert Hromec has shown an evolution that has led him to the definition of his own art. Hromec employs a plurality of historical-artistic stimuli, most of all technical, that makes use of and filters in a very personal way, creating, over time, his own style. “Style is not defined, it’s recognized.”…

  • The work of Robert Hromec fluidly moves between the inside and outside and vice versa, open and closed at the same time, curious and eager to embrace the complexity and variety of life, on all levels in which it unfolds. Levels are rendered both physically, through the overlay of different materials, and expressively with the…

  • He was born in 1970 and graduated in Painting from Hunter College, New York (1998) and in Printmaking from City College of New York (1995). He studied fine arts at the Pratt Institute (1990-1991). He was awarded a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in London, and in 2002, he received a BA…

  • Dream on brothers, while you canDream on sisters, I hope you find the oneAll of our lives, covered quickly by the tides of time B. D. Time, the fourth axis that defines any ideal or real body. Our own life is defined by time with two values, birth and death, yet the alpha and omega…

  • The most significant, and equally, difficult thing in life is the establishment of a relationship between two people of any kind. This kind of spiritual connection can be called ‘silence’, because silence is a communication without words. In my paintings, instead of words, I use hands that gesture to communicate and create an intimate contact…

  • The artist Robert Hromec has always been conditioned by his nature as a true time traveler seeking to understand and conquer the ontology of infinity in the spaces of the outer intergalactic reality as well as capturing the true nature of time and space through his visionary artistic creativity and the profound scientific analysis manifest…

  • Everything that comes into our life, our world, we ourselves invite it in. Often this comes on the basis of the pictures that we carry in our minds. It is what we are thinking about. Something flits through our minds, and we attract it to ourselves. The author of the international bestseller, You Were Born…

  • “In life, as in art, it is difficult to say something which is as efficacious as silence”. It is sufficient to read this sentence by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential of the philosophers of the twentieth century and a leading figure among the fathers of linguistics, to understand how this…

  • New materials introduced into the creative process, as well as new goals and new means—those for the work itself, and those that define the artist’s very mode of expression. With respect for what has been accomplished, for the path already taken. With a perfect memory of every misstep…but above all, with confidence in past successes!…