BORGO-PRUND (CENCINSKI), Arnold







CRITICAL REVIEW

The sculptural work of Borgo-Prund assimilates in an organic and original way, a series of modelling influences from the cultural and artistic design area of inter-war Transylvania. The whole generation of modernist sculptors from Transylvania, starting from Iosif Fekete, Iosif Bene, to Romul Ladea or Kós András, value the multiple possibilities of wood sculpture. A good stylization of formal means can be observed at Borogo-Prund, out of a symbolic exercise learnt from Paciurea and Mederea, and which he will transpose in the concurrently baroque, expressionist, highly decorative exaggerations, and with subtle primitive references of his work.
Mica Gherghescu


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    BIOGRAPHY

    (Prundul Bârgăului, 1900 – United States of America, 1982)

    Academic studies:
    1923 - 1928 – Beautiful Arts Academy, with Dimitrie Paciurea, Bucharest.

    Alongside Carol Pleşa, he is part of Corneliu Medea’s team for Romania’s Pavilion decoration within the Paris(1937) and New York(1939/1940)  International Exhibitions. 


    PROJECTS

    Personal Exhibitions:
    1937, „Mozart” Hall, Bucharest;
    1938, Dalles Foundation, Bucharest.

    Collective Exhibitions:
    1934 - The Oficial Salon, Bucharest;
    1937 – The International Exhibition in Paris, France;
    1940 – The Milano Triennial, Italy;
    1941 - Cluj (alongside Carol Pleşa).

    Works:
    1932 - 1933 – Man with hat (wood);
    1932 - 1933 – Descent from the cross (relief, wood);
    1937 - Maternity (wood);
             - Two Nudes (wood);
     - Pietà (varnished wood);
     - Lady dancer (wood), National Art Museum of Romania;
     - Totem, col. Gheorghe and Medi Dinu.
     


    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Vida, Gheorghe, Sculptor’s Dictionary of Romania, XIX-XX centuries, Vol. I., Bucharest, 2011.

    “The Art and the Individual, monthly magazine for art spreading, dir. Aug. Clonda, editor Borgo Prund, 1933.
    Constantin, Paul, Borgo-Prund, în: „The Art”, nr. 9, 1971.
    Matei, Matei, Sculptures by Borgo-Prund newly aquired, in: „The Annually of the Art Museum of RSR ”, Bucharest, 1983.
    Radu, Vasile, Borgo-Prund, http://www.artexpert.ro/blog/articol/borgo-prund, october 2012.