Screens to Canvas

Andrei Câmpan is a Romanian visual artist working between oil painting, illustration, and animation, investigating how digital culture reshapes perception and subjectivity. He approaches painting as a slow gesture against the accelerated rhythms of contemporary media. His work unfolds in the fragile territory where intimacy and technology intersect.

Câmpan explores the visual language of social networks—screenshots, notifications, and algorithmic feeds—treating them as a new collective mythology. Ephemeral images drawn from personal devices and online environments are translated into compositions in which the human figure dissolves into signs and luminous interfaces. Influenced by classical artworks and the aesthetics of the smartphone screen, he combines painterly sensitivity with a critical awareness of digital spectacle, oscillating between melancholy and irony.

His process begins with collecting and archiving digital traces that are later reworked through drawing studies and transferred onto canvas. Through a deliberate method, fleeting moments are slowed down and materially reconstructed, transforming the surface into a site where the immaterial flow of data is sedimented and made tangible.

Through this body of work, Andrei Câmpan invites viewers to reconsider their participation in the image economy and to reflect on the emotional structures hidden beneath everyday scrolling.