User:BALESCU

CATALIN BALESCU January 6th, 1962 Romania Painter, professor at the Bucharest National University of Arts, Painting Department Director of ARTLAB - Image Analyzing and Creation Laboratory

Studies: 2004 -PhD in Visual Arts with the subject Aesthetic Aspects of Visual Artistic Image and Its Grammar (Image and Its Syntax) 2000- Research activity in image analyzing as a Director of ARTLAB, Since 1990 - member of the Professional Artists Association in Romania 1981-1986 - National University of Arts, Bucharest, Master of Fine Arts, major in painting. 1971-1980 - Art Highschool, Deva - Romania

One-man shows: 2006 - Apollo Gallery, Bucharest 2003 - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest 2000 - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest 1997 - Apollo Gallery, Bucharest 1994 - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest

Selected group exhibitions: 2009 - ZECE - Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest 2008- Drawing - Simeza Gallery, Bucharest 2007 - Cainele andaluz - Artis Gallery, Bucharest 2003 - Art show of City Bucharest Artis Gallery 2001 - Group Art Show - Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest 2001 - National Art Show - Romexpo Exhibition Center, Bucharest 1999 - Time in the Arts of Space - Institute of Architecture, Bucharest 1995 - Apollo Gallery, Bucharest 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994 - Expozitia Tineretului, TNB Bucuresti 1988 - National graphics show, Dalles Gallery Bucharest 1985, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 - National Art show of young artists, National Theatre Bucharest 1983 - Croquis, students art show, Bucharest

International Art shows: 2001 - International Biennial for Print and Drawing - Taipei, Taiwan 2000 - Yungersted and Brostrom Gallery - Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 - International Biennial of Art, Sharjah - UAE 1995 - Rhein Main Maritime Hotel - Darmstadt 1995 - Romanian Cultural Center - Wien, Budapest, Venice 1995 - International Festival of Painting - Cagnes sur Mer, France 1990 - Itinerant art show; ISELP, Bruxelles, Botanique Gallery Bruxelles, Romanian Library, Paris 1989 - International art show of miniatural art 4th edition, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto

Grants and awards: 1997 - Scholarship offered by the Italian Institute of Culture from Bucharest - Rome, Florence and Venice 1997 - Bursa oferita de Institutul Italian de Cultura Bucuresti - Roma, Florenta si Venetia 1993 - One stage by six weeks in Bath College of Higher Education UK, Tempus Program 1988 - Studio Costin Petrescu grant offered by the Professional Artists Association from Romania 1979 - 1st prize at the National competition of College of Art Festival Timisoara, Romania 1979 - 2nd prize at the Secondary Schools of Art Festival Sibiu, Romania

Books, articles: - Zhang S., Neagu D. and Balescu C. (2005) Refinement of Clustering Solutions using a Multi-Label Voting Algorithm for Neuro-Fuzzy Ensembles, Procs. First International Conference on Natural Computation ICNC2005 (Lipo Wang, Ke Chen, Yew S. Ong eds.) - Changsha, China, 1300-1303, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS3612, ISSN 3-540-28320-X -	Neagu D., Zhang S. and Balescu C. (2005) A Multi-Label Voting Algorithm for Neuro-Fuzzy Classifiers Ensembles applied for Visual Arts Data Mining, Procs. 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA2005, Wroclaw, Poland -   (Halina Kwasnicka, Marcin Paprzycki eds.) 245-250, IEEE Computer Society   Press, ISSN 0-7695-2286-6. - S. Zhang, D. Neagu, C. Balescu (2005) Knowledge Representation for Visual Art Data Mining. 6th Informatics Workshop for Research Students, Univ. of Bradford, 23 March 2005, 198-202, ISBN 1-85143-220-5 - S. Zhang, D. Neagu, C. Balescu (2005) Visual Art Data Mining: Knowledge Representation and a Case Study. PREP 2005: the EPSRC Postgraduate Research Conf. in Electronics, Photonics, Communications and Networks, and ComputingScience at the University of Lancaster, 30th March - 1st April 2005, 295-296.

•	Muzeul Universităţii Naţionale de Arte din Bucureşti, UNARTE Publisher (CNCSIS) - ISBN 978–973–1922–06-5, 2008. •	Concurs de soluţii pentru extinderea şi remodelarea sediului Universităţii Naţionale de Arte din strada G-ral Budişteanu nr.19.(project coordinator) ISBN 978-973-1922-12-6, UNARTE Publisher, 2008. •	CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU- 2007 –Pictură, Galeria Simeza -1994-2000-2004- UNARTE Publisher, ISBN 978-973-87493-9-9, 2007. •	CĂTĂLIN BĂLESCU-2007 GALERIA APOLLO-Pictură- 2006 UNARTE Publisher,  ISBN 978-97388507-4-3, 2007. •	Catalogul Universităţii Naţionale de Arte din Bucureşti, UNARTE Publisher, ISBN 973-87493-0, 2006 (member of the coordination team)