Winter Lights
200x150cm / 78.74x59.06 in, oil on canvas, 2025
Social Distancing
205x280cm, oil on canvas, 2021
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Impulse Gallery, Lucerne
Solo exhibition, 2022
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Moment of Truth
200x150cm / 78.74x59.06 in, oil on canvas, 2025
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Coexistence, AKM, Istanbul
Group exhibition, 2022
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All is Good
200x200 cm / 78.74x78.74 in , oil and spray paint on canvas, 2017
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Sea of Flowers, Dock Gallery, Rotterdam
Group exhibition, 2019
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Chez Rita
200x150cm / 78.74x59.06 in, oil on canvas, 2025
View workPainter, born in Bucharest in 1983, living and working in Roubaix, in the north of France, since 2018.
About
Dominic Virtosu paints large, colour-saturated canvases in oil, moving between dense jungles, dreamlike figures, horses and pure abstraction. He works intuitively with colour and texture, building each canvas in layers until the image feels alive.
Windows
Light and colour, painted alla prima · 2025
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Chez Rita
200x150cm / 78.74x59.06 in, oil on canvas, 2025
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Where the Light comes from
150x130cm / 59.06x51.18 in, oil on canvas, 2025
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Blue Morning
150x130cm / 59.06x51.18 in, oil on canvas, 2025
I start with colour and let the painting tell me where it wants to go.
Series
Jungles
Layered foliage in oil, spray paint and pigment · 2018–ongoing
Begun in 2018, Jungles is an ongoing series of large-scale paintings in oil, spray paint and pigment. Layered foliage provides a framework for an intuitive approach to gesture, often using the artist’s left hand.
Rather than botanical description, the jungle becomes a space for relinquishing control. Leaves, light and colour emerge through a process of deliberate uncertainty, allowing the act of painting to lead into unfamiliar territory.
“I wanted to grant myself permission to feel lost”
Dominic Virtosu
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Light in the Jungle
198x156cm, oil on canvas, 2025
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A place to be
200x150cm / 78.74x59.06 in, oil on canvas, 2025
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Enchantment (2025)
200x150cm / 78.74x59.06 in, oil on canvas, 2025
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Exploration
200x150cm / 78.74x59.06 in, oil on canvas, 2025
The studio
Before painting full time, Dominic spent six years in broadcast television and advertising, which sharpened his eye for the seductive, absurd power of pop imagery. Today he paints in his studio in Roubaix and teaches at the École Supérieure d’Art de Dunkerque/Tourcoing.
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