The eternal becoming of art, between futuristic scenarios and crossroads of encounters, leads to a circulation of talents across Europe. This is how we get to know Alexandra Maciac, known only as Maciac, like all young "citizens of the world". She has already conquered her own stylistic hallmark, between female portraits and the universe of galaxies. Nothing resembling a mere aesthetic exercise, but a strong emotional ignition that welcomes and blends technique, ideas and heart. Free expression of her creativity, her portraits live in a coloristic invention that lights up lively stamps in the fullness of the image. A characterization of her that is emphasized by the continuous research in the pictorial construction for an effective rendering, for which the strong visual impact allows connections on the existential side. The atmospheres aroused by the female characters are questions about living in a visual restlessness that the strong preponderance of color induces. The artist knows her time thoroughly; her portraiture can be traced back to her wishes, to the spectacular representations, to the protagonist image in a chiaroscuro of young, glamorous and perhaps problematic allusive events. The black necklace dramatically between the teeth or the shaded face, hidden by the large hat are made to open a passage between secrets and torments beyond the spectacular magnetism, almost theatricalized by very intense accents, with a gaze that "imposes questions", as she says herself. However, the "portrait" genre always lends itself to being conveyed in a series of "Self-portraits", so much so that the subjects offer themselves in physical harmony with the artist. In the infinite universe of galaxies, the search for the gesture in matter suddenly appears, a path that is not easy because much modern art has already traveled it, to discover subtle connections with Nature and the Cosmos. Here Alexandra goes beyond the objective fact to reach the threshold of abstraction, in which traces of an eternally evolving score can be found. Here everything is subtracted from history, detached from the fait accompli, poetically delivered to the prospects of eternity. Close to the concept of absence, these works allow timeless, unknown expectations to emerge and, for this reason, inevitably full of disturbing omens. The gestural dimension in color lives between Nature and the Magical Universe, manifesting itself in a great vitality in the energy and vibrations of a free chromatic fluctuation, ready to recreate continuous and always different emotional states. The young artist, of Romanian origin, now a naturalized Venetian, is experiencing many interesting developments of her creativity, full of intuitions and imaginations. You have already shown a personal taste for colour, applied with fluid brushstrokes. Between figuration and abstraction one can verify in her that eclectic cultural nomadism, which characterizes the artistic season of our time.

Fabrizia Buzio Negri, 2010