CRITICAL REVIEW


        The experience Gheorghe Adam accumulated in graphic arts leads him to complex narrative relief sculptures closely related to the sculptural ensemble they belong to. When elaborated as independent art works (context free sculptures), both his reliefs and his monumental busts and medals generate a descriptive discourse (as the proposed theme requires), proof of his good understanding of narrative details.
 
Constantin Prut
 


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    BIOGRAPHY

    (Socodor, Arad, Romania, 1926)

    Higher Education:
    1948 - 1954 - Institute of Fine Arts "Nicolae Grigorescu", with professors M. H. Maxy, J. Al. Steriadi, and Simion Luca, București, România.

    Member of Romanian Fine Arts Union
     


    PROJECTS

    Solo Exhibitions*:

    1982 - Palace of Culture, Iași, România (with Gabriela Manole-Adoc);
    1996 - Retrospective Art Exhibition, Palace of the Parliament, București, România;
    1997 - Venice Biennale, Italy;
    1998 - Retrospective Art Exhibition, Palace of Culture, Iaşi, România;
    2000 - National History Museum of Moldova, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova.
     
    Group Exhibitions (selection):

    from 1954 - he participates in the annual national exhibitions and municipal exhibitions, București;
    1960 - Venice Biennale, Italy;
    1965 - Leipzig, Germania;
    1968, 1970, 1973 - International Art Medal Exhibition FIDEM (International Art Medal Federation), Madrid (Spania), Bratislava (Slovacia), Helsinki (Finlanda). 
     
    Monumental sculptures:


    1974 - Dimitrie Cantemir, relief, bronze, Istanbul, Turkey;
    1976 - 1979 - Epopeea de la 1877, reliefs for Independence Monument designed by Gabriela Adoc-Manole, Iași, România;
    1982 - Dimitrie Ţichindeal, relief, Arad, România;
    1983 - Șerban Cantacuzino, relief, Vienna, Austria;
    1987 - Traian şi Decebal, relief, Trieste, Italy;
    1991 - Abrud 2000, relief, Abrud, Alba, România;
    1993 - Mihai Viteazul, relief, Călugăreni, Giurgiu, România;
             - Mihai Viteazul, bust, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
             - Nicolae Bălcescu, bust, Santiago de Chile, Chile;
             - Alexandru Ioan Cuza, bust, Bogotá, Columbia;
    1994 - Eminescu, bust, Dorohoi, Botoșani, România;
    1995 - Nicolae Titulescu, bust, Pucioasa, Dâmbovița, România;
             - Onisifor Ghibu, bust, Oradea, România;
    1998 - Ioan Buteanu, bust, Gurahonț, Arad, România;
             - Onisifor Ghibu, monument, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova;
    2000 - Gheorghe Pituț, bust, Beiuș, Bihor, România.

    Awards and Prizes:
    1959 - Romanian Fine Arts Union Prize;
    1965 - Diploma of Honour for his participation in Graphic Arts from Five Continents Exhibition, Leipzig, Germany;
    1981 - "Ion Andreescu" Prize offered by Romanian Academy;
    1984 - Prize offered by "The Flame" / "Flacăra", weekly magazine, București, România;
    1987 - Prize offered by Ministry of Culture, București, România;
             - Prize offered by "The Week" / "Săptămâna", literary magazine, București, România;
    2000 - Diploma of Honour and "Pro amicitia, pro fidelitate" Medal, Iaşi, România.
     
    *Group Exhibitions: 1959 - Riga, Letonia; 1960 - Cairo, Egipt; Alexandria, Egipt.
     


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