Icarus - the dream of freedom, 2021
Stefanoiu Vasile

I am not represented by an art gallery and I have not presented any work on Artsper, until now. .

 I am a freelance artist, art enthusiast, self-taught painter and sculptor. I am an economist by profession, I am qualified as an accountant and independent financial auditor, a liberal profession but the love for art has never left him.

 I was born in a small mountain village, Ciuta - Buzau county, Romania, where people's occupations were related to stone carving, so I learned the craft of direct carving.

I made the leap from the craft of direct stone carving to the artistic representation of a meeting, as a child, with the Romanian sculptor George Apostu, whom I saw carving in stone some strange shapes, which did not resemble what the stone carvers made of my white village (Ciuta- Romania).

 I've been looking for the answer for the rest of my life ever since.

 I gathered information to understand the art of sculpting and painting "with the lasso", took art classes, read a lot about contemporary visual art as a philosophy and practice, drew, painted and sculpted constantly since childhood.

 I trained in art classes, studied the phenomenon of contemporary visual art, read a lot, visited museums and art galleries in Europe and New York.

 I am one of those sculptors who insists on making art in the traditional way, but without rejecting contemporary trends.

 The contemporaneity of my sculpture consists in the possibility of telling new messages with established techniques, moving from form to content, becoming an ideational art in which the concept takes precedence.

 In some of my sculptures, I take the narrative context of legends from ancient Greek civilization and place them in different contexts, suggesting movement in metamorphosis, to create completely new meanings and evoke completely different emotions, a way of seeing again in modern times .

I am an active member of the Sculpture network in Europe.

I frequently participate in online or physical international exhibitions, as was the case at the Florence Art Biennale that took place between October 23 and 31, 2021 at Fortezza da Basso;

Social media:

Interviu with Florence Contemporary Gallery in Italy (Florence) in June 2022.

Publications :

- The official catalog of the exhibition "Reminiscences" launched by Florence Contemporary Gallery in Italy (Florence) in June 2022.

- Catalog of the XIII Biennial of Art from Florence - Italy from 2021;

 - King House Art Magazine in Stratford, UK, published my marble sculpture "Pygmalion and Galatea - metamorphosis" in 2021;

- King House Art Magazine in Stratford, UK, published my wooden sculpture "Pandemic Memories" in 2020;

Past Exhibitions

• In the year 2022:

•             SoloS exhibition with 12 sculptures under the name "Metamorphoses", in the period: Sunday, July 10, 2022 until Wednesday, August 10, 2022. The exhibition is organized by Exhibizone and powered by the @Biafarin platform in the city of Toronto in Canada.

•             I was selected to be presented in the intelligent online group exhibition that will take place on the platform Exhibitions in Ontario - CANADA from June 20, 2022 to July 31, 2022 with my work “Icarus - the dream of freedom", marble, via Biafarin portal. 

•             .Online exhibition on the Florence Contemporary Gallery website in Italy (Florence) in June 2022, with the theme "Reminiscences".

•             I was selected to participate with three sculptures at the Biennial Artbox Expo Tana Art Space Fondamenta Venezia, which takes place between May 1 and May 31, 2022.

• First prize (gold medal) awarded by an international jury in the international online competition "Dali's Mustache" (Spain) for my sculpture “Orpheus and Eurydice".

• Awarded to The Michelangelo's Brush Competition, supported by Italian artist associations such as associazioni di artisti italiani, ASSO ARTISTI FIRENZE, “A.S.N.A.I.1999", “AIAPI ARTS", arts and crafts – design backgrounds “ARTI MESTIERI" and “OPEN ITALY", also by the Spanish Committee of Creative Initiatives Fiestalonia.

• Awarded Artist Certificate finalists in the latest Artavita contest (from Santa Barbara – California - SUA) with the theme “Hope". 

• Awarded Artist Certificate finalists in the latest Artavita contest (from Santa Barbara – California - SUA) for artwork distinguished in the 51st ARTAVITA Online Art Contest competing for publication in the 9th issue of World Wide Art Msagazine.

•  In the year 2021:

-  I participated with three sculptures at the Florence Biennale, with the theme “Eternal Feminine | Eternal Change. Concepts of Femininity in Contemporary Art and Design ", which took place between 23 and 31 October 2021 at Fortezza da Basso;

- ARTBOX.PROJECT World 1.0 exhibited 5 of my sculptures on the ARTBOX.GALLERY screens in Zurich. The exhibition will be open until June 30 ,21

- I was selected to participate with 3 sculptures in the contemporary art competition organized by the Pinacoteca Luxemburg Art Prize;