BĂLAN, Alexandra

Telephone:

0724.648.079

Email:

alex29balan@gmail.com

CRITICAL REVIEW

Alexandra Bălan’s sculpture proposes a figurative model in which the shape loses its rigor, drawing it rather towards an archaic model. At the border between a subtle eroticism and a profound fineness, the artist describes shapes of vibrant expression by the sensibility of the finishing work, using extremely suggestive details.

Andra Miruna Stancu (Mirela Dăuceanu)

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BIOGRAPHY

(Bucharest, 1981)

Academic studies:
2000 - 2005 - National Art University, Bucharest, Sculpture Department, with professors Mihai Buculei and Paul Vasilescu;
2005 - 2007 - Master in Visual Arts, National Art University, Bucharest, Sculpture Department, coordinator professor Mircea Spătaru, Bucharest.

PROJECTS

Exhibitions
2005 - Master and Dsciples, Workshop 35 Gallery, Bucharest;
         - Licence vs Master, Floor ¾ Gallery, National Theatre, Bucharest;
         - Salon of Small Sculpture, "Apollo" Gallery, Bucharest;
2006 - Salon of Small Sculpture, "Apollo" Gallery, Bucharest;
2007 - 11+1, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest;
         - "Simeza" Gallery, Bucharest;
         - Salon of Small Sculpture, "Apollo" Gallery, Bucharest;
2008 - Drawings by Sculptors, Arts Centre, Bucharest;
         - Salon of Small Sculpture, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest;
2009 - Drawings by Sculptors, Arts Centre, Bucharest;
2010, 2011 - National Salon of Plastic Arts „Contemporary attitudes”.

Symposiums:
1997 - International Symposium of Ceramics, Constanța;
1998 - National camp of Sculpture and Painting, Snagov, Ilfov;
2005 - International Symposium of Sculpture, Sfântu Gheorghe and Delta Dunării;
2008 - Symposium of Sculpture "Ion Vlasiu", Deda Bistra, Mureș.

Distinctions:
2007 - First Prize for Serafim* at the National Art Contest "Ion Irimescu", 5th edition.

* kept in the collection of the Art Museum "Ion Irimescu"