Ep 170: Aida Tomescu – ‘Messiaen’

A highlights video from this episode will also be coming soon to the Talking with Painters YouTube channel

In this episode, I visit the studio of acclaimed abstract painter Aida Tomescu just days before the opening of her exhibition Messiaen at Fox Jensen Gallery in Sydney. The exhibition continues until 20 December 2025.

• Aida Tomescu on Instagram
• Aida Tomescu website
• Aida Tomescu at Fox Jensen Gallery 
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Previous TWP YouTube videos of Aida Tomescu:

• Aida Tomescu – extended interview
• Aida Tomescu talks with Maria Stoljar (uncut)
• Aida Tomescu in her studio (2017)
• Aida Tomescu talks with Maria Stoljar about ‘Tuckson: the abstract sublime’
• Aida Tomescu’s 2019 show ‘The Open Wounds of White Clouds’

Previous podcast conversations with Aida Tomescu:

• Episode 33 – Aida Tomescu
• Episode 63 – Aida Tomescu on Tony Tuckson
• Episode 116 – Aida Tomescu (uncut)

Messiaen II 2024
200x460cm
oil on Belgian linen
Photo: Jenni Carter

Messiaen III 2025
200 x 306cm
Oil on Belgian linen
Photo: Jenni Carter

Messiaen 2013
oil and pigments on canvas
184 x 153 cm
This is the work Tomescu refers to at the beginning of the episode