Peter Cernat

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THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

is exposing again a painting of  Peter Cernat at 

The Art Sales and Rental Gallery:

24" x 60" oil / canvas ( 60 cm x 150 cm )

This painting can be seen in the movie 

“DEADLY BETRAYAL”

PETER CERNAT

Peter Cernat is the spiritual painter. Buddhism is the philosophy underlying his artistic credo. His surrealist debuts were inspired by Bosch, Brauner, Dali, Magritte, while his technique comes mainly from Cennini. He has toyed with sculpting and painting since childhood.

His paintings have been exhibited at the National and Municipal Salons in Bucharest. He won national and municipal prizes for his work while studying at the Bucharest Faculty of Civil Engineering. While he lived in Romania, he sold a large number of paintings throughout the world, but few in his native land.

From 1990 to 1992, Cernat lived and worked in France. His paintings from that period were shown in Paris and the surrounding areas and are now in several collections: A. Delon, F. Fayolle, G. Perri, M. Hoerth, B. Notter, R. Bonhomme, A. Petit, etc.

In 1992, he immigrated to Canada and in 1996 he became a Canadian citizen.

Since 1999 the Montreal Fine Arts Museum has exhibited his work in the Art Sales and Rental Gallery. Some paintings exhibited in this gallery can be seen in recent movies (DEADLY BETRAYAL; 2003). In 2002 the well-known Canadian magazine DECORMAG reproduced two of Cernat’s canvases. In 2004 the painting Meditation 1 appears in À LA DI STASIO show. Same year, FARHAT FOUNDATION obtained one painting by Cernat to be sell in auction. In 1996 SOTHEBY’S sold in auction at Le Windsor, Montreal, the painting Love song.

Cernat paintings were exhibited in Toronto’s Gallery 7 until 1997.

In Montreal, his paintings have been displayed in the Gallery of Contemporary Art on Crescent Street and in the Kastel Gallery on Greene Avenue in Westmount. His spiritual art is currently represented by Greene Bamboo in Westmount. His spiritual paintings are found in several private collections in Canada and the United States: Yoga M. Lawson S. Lawson, R. Redford, T. & K. Tierney, N. Senecal, R. Southin, J. Aranda, K. Nguyen, L. Philip, C. Gareau etc. Several of his paintings have been commissioned:

Pfizer Canada, C. Roy, E. Bejan, E. & C. Sedeco, etc.

Peter Cernat est le peintre spirituel.Il est né en Roumanie en 1955.
À l’âge de huit ans il commence à s’intéresser aux arts.
Il est attiré en particulier par Brauner, Bosch, Durer, Goya, Vermeer.

Il peint avec plusieurs mediums et se spécialise dans la technique de l’huile. 
Il peint selon la tradition des anciens maîtres, malgré l’apparence moderne de ses toiles.

Cernat obtient son diplôme d’ingénieur en 1979 et commence à exposer et participer aux salons nationaux. 
Il obtient plusieurs prix. Il travaille et expose pendant deux ans en France. 
Il s’établit au Canada en 1992 et expose à Toronto et Montréal

COVER: ‘‘LOVE TIME’’  O/C  96’’ x 156’’  244 cm x 396 cm

PETER CERNAT

SHELLS

JULY 19 – AUGUST 21, 2004

Opening: Wednesday, July 21

from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BUILDING

1368 SHERBROOKE W • MONTREAL • CANADA

(514) 985-0015

GEORGES LAOUN GALLERY

For the exhibition at the Canadian embassy in Tokyo
“A WORD FROM THE ARTIST”

As a child, every summer I would collect seashells on the shores of the Black Sea with my sister. We had several boxes filled with seashells and snail-shells in many colours. I grew up and one day threw them all out, and then regretted it. Today I have other boxes filled with shells of the plainest varieties; they are my models.

As an adolescent, I used to draw and paint faces and scenes that were labelled “macabre”. My room was filled with branches in human shapes, sculptures, and animal skulls. A collection of boots hung from the ceiling; the floor was covered with oddly shaped stones. I even had a stone the shape and size of a heart, which I would offer to each of my conquests. I slept on the floor; there were no chairs in my room. My friends and I wore trousers patched together from pieces of fabric of various shapes; all our clothes were painted in several colours. We wore long winter boots even in summer. In spite of our strange attire and long hair, we were clean and did not smoke or do drugs. We were also fakirs. Among ourselves we used a combination of words from the languages we knew.  We were eccentric, bothersome, and unique: we were communist hippies. It was our way of protesting communism and its lack of freedom. Needless to say that that attitude earned us several trips to the police station. In college I was the drummer of a rock music group. The communist authorities   turn off the power and put us out of the stage of a national festival; later they invited us for the TV. I was writing poems and some of them, less crazy, were published in the Luceafarul, the most prestigious literary magazine.

I performed military service at an airborne battalion, and afterwards, as a civilian, I still wore my parachuting uniform, which earned me more trips to the police station. I remember that one time my father agreed to go out with me only on condition that I keep at a fair distance from him! He was a colonel.

I began to paint portraits of the pretty girls I fell in love with in less time than it took me to finish a painting. I was preoccupied with composition and metaphors. My secret source of strength throughout adolescence and youth were yoga and mediation, both forbidden by the totalitarian regime in which I thrived like a weed. My paintings from that period are a reflection of the painful life I was leading: I felt trapped, deprived of freedom, both physical and spiritual. I drew satisfaction from art, family, friends, beautiful girls and the magnificent beauty of Romania. I climbed mountains and reached spots were only goats had set hoof. I painted rocks and stones and realized that it was not for nothing that my name meant “stone.” 

I used to go to the Black Sea several times a year, despite my rather limited financial means.  Around the first of May, I was the only lunatic swimming in its cold waters. During a walk on the beach, a broken shell, partially covered by the sand, caught my eye; it was the kind of shell that one does not even see, and walks upon. I picked up all the shells I found on the beach and painted them relentlessly, for years, in different colours and from different angles.  I’ve dreamt, ever since, of exposing those paintings in Japan, the country in whose seas they have their origins. I made a discovery, which I’ve kept sacred: the spiral of the shells is set according to the rotation of the Earth and the Moon… My shells are people, they are us in different hypostases, they are what is left of us: our souls. After leaving their aquatic existence, the shells lie in the dust of their ancestors until they turn into dust themselves, thus representing our passage, our renewal, our transcendence. The sand hides all of this and we only see its grains.

These shells, my models, have travelled with me from Romania to France and then to Canada, and have been my luggage and my fortune. I wish that the spirit of these paintings may find its peace in far-away Asia, and that my heavenly Guide may lift me towards higher levels of cognition through my art, which I want to share with others.

Peter Cernat

 Peter Cernat

was invited by the company  PFIZER

to present his painting at Manoir Saint-Sauveur, Quebec, Canada.

The painting entitled

“Where do we go?”

was ordered by the world biggest pharmaceutics company for the director

Roger Southin.

For Mr Roger Southin

Usually, I do not speak about my paintings because I prefer to think that they speak for themselves.

I want my art to speak about us, about me and about Mr Southin.

The colours and the design is a pretext to bring the eyes closer to the painting to discover something hidden. 

Not necessarily my interpretations, but one’s imagination can play with them.

I let people be surprised by their imagination when they find things that I hide and let them feel that they created them.

There is a certain intellectual satisfaction, a moment that allows us to reflect about life and ourselves…

Where do we go?

We run, we run, we push. 

We make plans and strive to achieve and accumulate.

But do we ever achieve what we really want?

If, one day we stop, for any reason to reflect; to look at the sky like one would look in a mirror, a mirror that we cannot touch because we have to cross the sea…take a breath and ask: 

‘’Where do we go?’’

What will we take with us?  What do we have?  What do we leave?  Where do we go?

Maybe we will transcend ourselves and feel joy, truth and cognition in another state of our existence.  And wonder at the beauty and the simplicity of our passage through life.

Peter Cernat 

In 2002 the well-known Canadian magazine “DECORMAG” reproduced two of Peter Cernat canvases from the cycle “THE SEASONS”.

Some paintings exhibited in the

Montreal Fine Arts Museum – Art Sales and Rental Gallery

can be seen in recent movies

(DEADLY BETRAYAL, 2003).

In 2004 the painting Meditation 1 appears in “A LA DI STASIO “show

Paintings by Peter Cernat Exhibited at the huge

G. Laoun Gallery   Montreal, Canada

60 paintings, almost big sizes, were exhibited in 2004 from July 21 until august 21.

The famous “LOVE TIME” (2, 44 m x 4, 00 m) had an immense success.

Paintings of Peter Cernat

SPIRITUAL

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SPIRITUAL

GEISHAS

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GEISHAS

LEAVES

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LEAVES

Total of 5 Galleries

TREES

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TREES

SHELLS

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SHELLS

Total of 6

Galleries

VARIOUS

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VARIOUS

Total of 2

Galleries

BEFORE 1990

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BEFORE 1990

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SHEEL GALLERY

PETER CERNAT          Represented by                        Greene Bambou                    

                                                                                    1385, Greene Avenue, Westmount (Qc), Canada

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Art Sales and Rental Gallery 

1390, W. Sherbrooke str, Montreal, Qc., Canada

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

PRIZES

PETER CERNAT                                                SOLO EXHIBITIONS

EDUCATION:                      1979        Ponts & Chaussées Faculty, Bucharest (Romania)

WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

Amsterdam, Beverly Hills, Bruxelles, Bonn, Brannenburg, Bucharest, Cleveland, Detroit, Dusseldorf, E.Haven, Hamburg, Liechtenstein, Los Angeles, London (On), Luxembourg, Montreal, München, New York, Nuremberg, Ottawa, Palermo, Paris, Rome, Sydney (Australia), Toronto,.