It has been often noted, regarding Ioan Aurel Mureșan, his enormous propensity for culture, which is permanently accompanying his creation: “He plays within and with the history of art, within and with the history of ideas with a nonchalance that combines certainties and obsessions, essentialities and ostentation, psychological finesse, and ideation solitudes.” (Aurel Chiriac, “Despre iubire și sens”, in the exhibition catalogue Erotikonia, 2019)

Shaped by well-assimilated readings, coming from a vast spectrum of the humanistic field – ranging from philosophy, art history, psychoanalysis, semiotics, and poetry, the theoretical practice has become a constitutive part of his personality. Every page written by Ioan Aurel Mureșan attest this, regardless of whether it is an academic class, an occasional catalogue text for a fellow artist, or a well elaborated volume, such as his doctoral dissertation – an act of exploration of the interstices of the creation, an act of self-discovery.