BALASKÓ, Nándor-Ferdinand







CRITICAL REVIEW

Balaskó's artworks carved or sculpted in wood, stone, bronze, and sometimes in terracotta covers the way from the interpretation of reality stage / creative act to stylization of reality one. Each sculpture becomes a symbol that utters / expresses the idea of life and recalls facts and human beings and how they act in different circumstances, like facing the courage of faith, the justice, or the sacrifice.
 


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    BIOGRAPHY

    (Sălacea, Sălaj, 1918 - Germany, 1996; 1968: goes in Occident)

    Academic Studies
    1937 – 1940: Fine Arts Academy (teacher: Oscar Han), Bucharest;
    1940 - 1942 – Fine Arts Academy, Budapest, Hungary.
     


    PROJECTS

    Exhibitions
    Personal exhibitions:
    1940 - Bucharest;
    1941, 1942 - Budapest;
    1943, 1944, 1947 - Cluj-Napoca.

    Group Exhibitions (selection):
    1948 - 1968 - Cluj, Târgu-Mures, Oradea and Bucharest;
    after 1968: participates to the Fine Arts Society’s Exhibitions in Portugal and othe exhibitions in Belgium, France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Poland, USA, Latin America
     
    Monumental Works:
    The Victims of Internment Camp in Poland, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum
     The Refugees, USA
    Monumental Busts exposed in Ireland, Portugal, Vatican, Brasil


    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Fundația Culturală META, Un secol de sculptură românească. Dicționar A-D, Colecția SINTEZE, Editura META, 2001, pp. 44 - 45.
    Rus, Alexandra, Sculptură românească în lemn în secolul XX, Colecții clujene, Muzeul Național de Artă Cluj, 1998.