CRITICAL REVIEW


        Conceived as interventions, Nicolae Ghiață sculptures are more than an exercise of harmonizing the concrete data of the landscape in order to combine in the order of the ambience a series of sensible and spiritual presences. In an shapeless and opaque matter, he puts principles of the sacred, announced from the tiles of certain cycles: Spring, Sacrifice, Tree of life. So the matter itself of the works of art are bound to sense formative tensions, until it loses its impersonal features becoming transparent for the affective and rational processes of the artist. The block of stone emanates tectonic benchmarks but they also constitute themselves into a coherent formal discourse. No matter how many temptations arise from the experimental background of his age, the initial sacred motivation does not allow for the dispersion of these shapes, maintaining permanently active the nostalgia of a project, of a construction.

Constantin Prut
 


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    BIOGRAPHY

    (Botoșana, Suceava, 1939)

    Academic studies:
    1968 - „Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Plastic Arts, Sculpture department, class of professor Ion Lucian Murnu, Bucharest.

    Professional activity:
    1968 - 1975 – High-school of Art, Constanța;
    1975 - 1985 – School of Music and Plastic arts no. 4, Bucharest;
    din 1985 – Professor at the High-school of Plastic Arts „N. Tonitza”, Bucharest;
    1992 - 1999 - Director of the High-school of Plastic Arts „N. Tonitza”, Bucharest.

    since 1970 – Member of the Plastic Artists Union in Romania
     


    PROJECTS

    Group exhibitions:
    1968, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978 – Biennale of painting and sculpture, Bucharest;
    1969, - National exhibition of youth, Bucharest;
    1970 – Summer salon, Plastic Artists Union, Constanța;
    1971 – International exhibition, Baku, Azerbaidjan;
    1972 – County exhibition of the Plastic Artists Union in Constanța;
             - Exhibition of projects and machetes for the seaside, Constanța;
    1973 - Pontica ’63, Constanța;
    1974 – National exhibition of youth, Pitești, Argeș;
    1976 – Triennial exhibition of decorative arts, Bucharest;
    1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 – Salon of painting and sculpture of Bucharest county;
    1976, 1977, 1978, 1980 – Exhibition of small plastic, House of Culture „Fr. Schiller”, Bucharest;
    1977 - National exhibition of youth, Cluj;
    1978 – National Salon of graphics, Bucharest;
    1981 – International exhibition, Belgrade, Yugoslavia;

    Symposia:
    1970, 1977, 1982 - Măgura (stone), Buzău;
    1976 - Bow (wood), Covasna;
    1979 - Lazărea (marble), Harghita;
    1980 - Hobița (stone), Gorj;
    1981 - Căsoaia (stone), Alba;
    1986 - Babadag (stone), Tulcea;
    1987 - Sparkle (stone), Ialomița;
    1988, 1994, 1996 - Oarba de Mureș (stone);
    1991 - Soveja (wood), Vrancea;
    1992 - Bacău (wood);
    1997 - Vața de Jos (stone), Hunedoara;
    1999 - Bucharest (marble);
    2001, 2006 - Bogați (wood), Argeș;
    2002 - Pitești (marble), Argeș;
             - Castelraimondo (travertine), Italy;
    2004, 2005, 2009, 2011 - Miroși (marble), Argeș;
    2007 - Drăgășani (marble), Vâlcea.

    Distinctions:
    1970 – Collective prize at the Sculpture camp from Măgura, Buzău;
    1971 – Prize at the group exhibition of Baku, Azerbaijan;
    1981 - Prize at the group exhibition of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.


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