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florin
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Jan 12, 2008
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Location
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United States
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Art, literature, travel, photography
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Website
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www.florinfirimita.com
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Occupation
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Visual artist
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Biography
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FLORIN ION FIRMIŢÃ is a visual artist, teacher, and author who traces his interest in art back to his father’s modest amateur photo lab, in Bucharest, Romania , where he was entrusted with mixing chemicals, developing film, and printing black-and-white photos, at the age of six. His interest in drawing and painting started around the same time, under the influence of his mother, an art teacher and a fashion designer.
Between 1988 and 1990, he was the manager of the painting department of the National Theater of Opera and Ballet, in Ballet, in Bucharest, Romania, and also as a costume and set painter. In 1990, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued his education at Naugatuck Valley Community College, and at Central CT State University. Today he teaches, paints, exhibits, lectures, and writes art-criticism, essays and short stories. In the spring of 2001, he was appointed the art advisor for the State of Connecticut’s International Art Exchange Program, in Port-of-Spain, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Lately, his fiction, essays have appeared in France, Great Britain, and in the U.S. in House Beautiful, The Sun, and the Hartford Courant. His story “Birds†was included in the 2002 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. The Art of Leaving a film about Florin’s art and life was released in 2003. The film was the official selection of seven international film festival such as Santa Fe, Durango, New York , Chicago , and also Montreal ’s 23rd Festival International du Film Sur L’Art.
His work could be found in private and public collections in Europe, Australia, and the United States . Between 1991 and 2008 he has participated in over 200 solo and group exhibits in the United States. When he is not spending time with friends in Southern France, he is the co-director of the Multicultural Arts and Technology Program at Central Connecticut State University, teaches art at Pomperaug High School, in Middlebury, and at Naugatuck Valley College in Waterbury .
On the web: www.florinfirimita.com and www.theartofleaving.com
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