Lesson about the cube
Stefanoiu Vasile
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Pygmalion & Galateea – Metamorphosis,
2020
by Stefanoiu Vasile
Sculpture : marble 75 x 42 x 18 cm 29.5 x 16.5 x 7.1 inch
$11,100
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Sculpture: marble
75 x 42 x 18 cm 29.5 x 16.5 x 7.1 inch Height x Width x Depth
The sculpture cannot be displayed outdoors
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: Romania
Artist nation of origin: Romania
This is a unique work
Working technique
The technique of my marble sculpture is direct carving. Before starting the work, I already have in mind and in the drawings, after long meditations and creative searches, the theme I decided to sculpt. I sculpt in marble from Romania and I use traditional tools: chisels, drills and abrasives that I use manually.
Description of the sculpture
This sculpture is part of a series of sculptures that take sequences from the narrative context of legends of ancient Greek civilization and sculpt the result of my imagination in a new way of seeing in the modern era, different, sometimes suggesting movement in the process of metamorphosis.
I sculpted in marble the moment of metamorphosis, as described by the great poet Ovid, who lived the last years of his life in Romania at Tomis ((Constanta today), being forcibly exiled from Rome in the year 8 AD and was buried approx. 9 years later in the same locality. .
The moral of my sculpture: eternal beauty, found exclusively in art.
I sculpted the moment of the metamorphosis, setting in motion Galatea’s silhouette, abandoning the eternal condition in favor of the perishable.
Detachment of the statue to awakening to life leaving the body in the negative, revealing the sequence of movement from the right position of the statue to the downward position on the pedestal, both in front and behind the sculpture. I gave the free spaces meanings of stihii and centrifugal coverage, to suggest movement, with the appearance of a disorder assumed to contradict the static attitude of classicism, while the naked silhouette of Galatea benefits from retained details vaguely reminiscent of the classical manner.
At the top of the sculpture, in front, I carved the negative mark of the hand of the goddess Aphrodite that gave life to the statue.
The features of Galatea's face are vague, without details.
I simply sculpted Pygmalion, without clothing details, I gave importance to the position of the body, after long hesitations between several variants and the facial expression is amazement and wonder for the miracle that took place. His face is slightly caricatured, expressive, specific to the contemporary style.
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This is a unique work
Working technique
The technique of my marble sculpture is direct carving. Before starting the work, I already have in mind and in the drawings, after long meditations and creative searches, the theme I decided to sculpt. I sculpt in marble from Romania and I use traditional tools: chisels, drills and abrasives that I use manually.
Description of the sculpture
This sculpture is part of a series of sculptures that take sequences from the narrative context of legends of ancient Greek civilization and sculpt the result of my imagination in a new way of seeing in the modern era, different, sometimes suggesting movement in the process of metamorphosis.
I sculpted in marble the moment of metamorphosis, as described by the great poet Ovid, who lived the last years of his life in Romania at Tomis ((Constanta today), being forcibly exiled from Rome in the year 8 AD and was buried approx. 9 years later in the same locality. .
The moral of my sculpture: eternal beauty, found exclusively in art.
I sculpted the moment of the metamorphosis, setting in motion Galatea’s silhouette, abandoning the eternal condition in favor of the perishable.
Detachment of the statue to awakening to life leaving the body in the negative, revealing the sequence of movement from the right position of the statue to the downward position on the pedestal, both in front and behind the sculpture. I gave the free spaces meanings of stihii and centrifugal coverage, to suggest movement, with the appearance of a disorder assumed to contradict the static attitude of classicism, while the naked silhouette of Galatea benefits from retained details vaguely reminiscent of the classical manner.
At the top of the sculpture, in front, I carved the negative mark of the hand of the goddess Aphrodite that gave life to the statue.
The features of Galatea's face are vague, without details.
I simply sculpted Pygmalion, without clothing details, I gave importance to the position of the body, after long hesitations between several variants and the facial expression is amazement and wonder for the miracle that took place. His face is slightly caricatured, expressive, specific to the contemporary style.
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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;
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