CRITICAL REVIEW

At the beginning of the 70s the makes a monumental ensemble at Costinesti (stone, 7 elements). Grounded on a platform at the seaside, it represents a very elaborate functional-symbolic composition, based on a careful and subtle evaluation of the relations of volume with space. Very original also is the statue of Eminescu, exhibited in 1974, in which he uses a sui-generis collage of the poet’s mortuary mask, contesting the rhetoric of the contemporary commemorative monuments. In the 80s he makes mural decorations at Paris.  

Ioana Vlasiu
 


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    BIOGRAPHY

    (Bucharest, 1943; moves to Franţa since 1977)
     
    Academic studies:
    1962 - 1968 - „Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Plastic Arts, with Ion Lucian Murnu, Bucur
     


    PROJECTS

    Solo exhibitions:
    1973, 1974 – Apollo Gallery, Bucharest (with Grigorescu Ion, cat.).
     
    Group exhibitions:
    1970 – Exhibition of Romanian art abroad, Warsaw, Polland;
    1973 - Exhibition of Romanian art abroad,  Eastborne; Southampton, Great Britain;
    1974 - Exhibition of Romanian art abroad, Berlin, Germany;
    1975 -  International Exhibition, Ravenna, Italy;
    1976 – 37th Venice Biennale /cat..
     
    Museums:
    Romanian National Museum of Art – Abstract sculpture in wood and stone, with minimal figurative allusions (see The torso, wood, exhibited at the Venice Biennale, 1976).

    Distinctions:
    1971 – Prize of the Culture Ministry for the portrait of C. Dobrogeanu-Gherea and The fallen partisan.


    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Barbosa, Octavian, Dicționarul artiștilor români contemporani, Editura Meridiane, București, 1976.
    Dictionnaire des monuments de Paris, Paris, 1992, pp. 286, 767.
    Fundația Culturală META, Un secol de sculptură românească. Dicționar A-D. Colecția SINTEZE, Editura META, 2001, p. 135.
    Saur, Saur Allegemaine Kunstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Kunstler aller Zeiten un Volker, 20, K.G. Saur München-Leipzig, 1998.
    Vlasiu, Ioana (coord.), Dicționarul sculptorilor din România. Secolele XIX-XX, vol. I, lit. A-G, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2011, p. 148.

    Enescu, Ion Mircea, Arhitect sub comunism, Editura Paideia, Bucureşti, 2006.
    Grigorescu, Dan, Idee şi sensibilitate. Directii şi tendinţe în arta contemporană românească, Bucureşti, 1991, p. 78.
    Irimie, C., Dumitrescu, F., Paleolog, A., Arta lemnului la români, Bucureşti, 1975, p. 42.
    Titu, Alexandra, Experiment în arta românească după 1960 /cat./ Centrul Soros pentru artă contemporană, Bucureşti, 1997, p. 47.

    Arghir, A., în: „Arta”, nr.1, 1974, p. 24 - 25.
    Buşneag, O., în: „Arta”, nr. 5 - 6, 1974, p. 54 - 55.
    Vlasiu, Ioana, Ansamblul de la Costineşti, în: „Arta”, nr. 7, 1974.
    Vlasiu, Ioana, în: „Revue Roumaine d’Histoire de l’Art”, 11, 1974, p. 37 - 57.