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    BIOGRAPHY


    (Răducăneni, Iași, 1946)
     
    Academic studies:
    1971 – graduated the „Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Plastic Arts in Bucharest, with Zoe Băicoianu
     
    Member of the Plastic Artists Union in Romania
     


    PROJECTS


    Solo exhibitions:
    2002 – Simeza Gallery, Bucharest;
     
    Group exhibitions:
    1969 – Exhibition of Decorative Art, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
    1971 - Exhibition of Decorative Art, Painting, Sculpture and Graphics;
    1973 – Triennial of Decorative Arts;
    1976 - Triennial of Decorative Arts, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
             - Romanian exhibition of Decorative Arts, Athens, Greece;
    1977 – National exhibition of Decorative art and Design, Oradea;
             - County exhibition of plastic arts;
    1978 – Exhibition of Youth, Iași;
             - Salon of decorative art of Bucharest;
             - International Quadrennial of Decorative art, 2nd edition, Erfurt, Germany;
    1979 – Salon of Painting, Sculpture, Graphics and Decorative art of Bucharest;
             - Salon of Romanian contemporary decorative art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria;
             - Salon of Romanian contemporary decorative art, Lodz, Poland;
    1980 – Quadrennial of Decorative art;
             - International Exhibition of glass , Luzern, Switzerland
    1980 - 1981 – Salon of Painting, Sculpture, Graphics and Decorative art of Bucharest;
    1981 – Exhibition of young plastic art, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
             - Exhibition of Romanian contemporary decorative art, Montreal, Canada;
             - Collective exhibition of Decorative art, Sofia, Bulgaria;
    1981 - 1982 – County Salon of Decorative arts;
    1982 - 1983 – County Salon of Painting, Sculpture, Graphics and Decorative arts;
    1983 - 1984 – Salon of Decorative arts, Museum of Collections, Bucharest;
    1984 – Quadrennial of Decorative arts, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
             - Exhibition of Plastic arts, Bucharest;
    1984 - 1985 - County Salon of Painting, Sculpture, Graphics and Decorative arts, Bucharest;
    1986 - Triennial of Decorative arts, Bucharest;
    1986 - 1987 - Salon of Plastic and Decorative arts, Bucharest;
    1987 - Exhibition of Romanian contemporary plastic art, Greece;
    1988 – Salon of small sculpture, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest;
             - International Contest of glass, Kanazawa, Japan;
             - Exhibition of Romanian contemporary decorative art, Moscow, Russia;
    1989 – Triennial of Decorative arts, Dalles Hall, Bucharest;
    1990 – International Contest of glass, Kanazawa, Japan;
    1992 – Form and light, exhibition of Decorative art, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest;
             - Salon of ceramics and glass Nimagine, France;
    1994 – County salon of Art, Bucharest;
    1996 – Gallery of art centre, exhibition of Plastic Arts Union, Bucharest branch;
             - County salon of art, National Theatre, Bucharest;
             - International Exhibition of glass, Japan;
    1997 – National Salon Glass and Ceramics, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest;
    1999 - National Salon Glass, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest;
    2000 - National Salon Glass, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest;
             - County Salon of Art, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest;
    2001 - National Salon Glass, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest;
             - Costel Badea and coleagues, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest;
    2001 - County Salon of Art, Bucharest;
    2002 – Salon of glass, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest;
    2003 - County Salon of Art, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest;
    2004 - Salon of glass, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest;
    2005 - Salon of glass, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest;
    2009 - Chrestian breathing, Veroniki Art Gallery, Bucharest.
     
    Monumental works:
    1972 - 1973 – Big chandelier in the National Theatre lobby in the Bucharest National Theatre;
    1986 - 1987 - Caru' cu bere, total restoration of stained glass chained with plumb, Bucharest;
    1987 - Constanța Casino, stained glass chained with plumb, compoziție art nouveau;
    1992 – Ministry of External Affairs, stained glass chained with plumb, art nouveau composition, Bucharest;
    1994 - Roman-Catholic Church, stained glass chained with plumb, Liniștii Street, Bucharest;
    1996 – Ghica Palace, figuratively painted and ornamental stained glass chained with plumb, Bucharest;
    1997 - Corvinești Catle, total restoration stained glass chained with plumb, Hunedoara;
    1998 – Recea Monastery, figuratively stained glass chained with plumb, Târgu-Mureș;
    2001 – Ministry of National Defense, Commandment of terrestrial troups, stained glass chained with plumb, Bucharest;
    2002 – Mitropolitan Palace, ornamental stained glass chained with plumb, main entrance, Iași;
             - Mitropolitan Place, ornamental stained glass, laminator, Iași;
    2002 - 2003 – Mitropolitan Palace, painted figurative stained glass, Iași; 
                        - „Găneasa” Monastery, painted figurative stained glass, Ilfov;
    2006 - 2007 - Greek-Catholic „Sfântul Nicolae” Church, painted stained glass, Satu-Mare;
    2007 - 2009 – Mitropolitană Cathedral, restoration painted stained glass, Iași;
    2009 – Patriarchal Place, painted stained glass chained with plumb, Bucharest.
     
    Works in private collections in Romania, Japan, USA, Germany, Greece, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Australia.
     
    Works in museums:
    Museum of  contemporary art in Bucharest
    Museum of  contemporary art in Buzău
    Museum of  contemporary art in Galați
    Interglass Museum, Novy-Bor, Czech Republic
    Glass Museum, Ebeltoft, Denmark
     
    Distinctions:
    1987 – First Prize at the National Salon of Glass for the work Butterflies;
    2000 – 2nd prize at the Bucharest County Salon, section „Fire”, for the work Monk;
    2004 – Prize of the Plastic Artists Union in Romania.
     


    BIBLIOGRAPHY

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