Anca Boeriu’s artistic biography has unfolded under the exciting auspices of an expected surprise. Trained as a sketcher, she has chosen over time the more difficult path of engraving, becoming (re)known for her endeavor to revitalize it in the contemporary artistic climate. Regarded from this perspective, her entire artistic activity appears as a predictable road of accumulations and performances, successfully accompanied by her tireless pedagogical activity with the UNA students. Equally aware of the “liberal” dignity of the drawing (also understood as disegno) and of the meaning of techniques in artistic practice, Anca is pursuing – consciously or not – a respectable tradition which began with Theodor Aman, the first Romanian artist who understood the importance of engraving, and particularly with Gabriel Popescu, the first Romanian artist exclusively dedicated to the art of engraving.