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Sculptures by Marian Zidaru
Curated by Erwin Kessler
Bucharest, 13 May - 8 June, 2010
Opening reception, May 13th, 2010 – 6:30 pm
Sculptures by Marian Zidaru
Curated by Erwin Kessler
Bucharest, 13 May - 8 June, 2010
Opening reception, May 13th, 2010 – 6:30 pm
Introduction by art critic Erwin Kessler
During the past 20 years Marian Zidaru was a prominent and disputed figure of the neo-Orthodox art in Romania. A high-profile, promising young sculptor, be became the mouthpiece of a radical reformist grouping inside the national Church.
For years, passions and polemics were stirred-up on a daily basis around him. He got used to preaching, to arguments and debates. He got used to “social sculpting” the community around him. He designed churches, monasteries, houses, clothes, furniture, instruments and books for them.
Art was everything else than art, that mere sculpture intended to sit on a pedestal in a gallery, secluded from life and action. The work was the art of living in a radical commitment to the spiritual turn of the people around him.
His impressive, visionary wooden sculptures acted like some pulpits out of which he exhorted his fellow citizens to a better understanding, a better living and better feeling. Yet, at a certain moment, art started to take again the lion’s share from his work.
What started as sculpture and then turned into social action, ultimately turned again, but at another level, into sculpture. Age, ideas, skills, faith and longings came together into this new momentum of his work.
Now, his wooden and bronze sculptures no longer preach. They articulate rooms, they populate atmospheres and they filter the sight. They blend into the actual lived experience, enhancing perception and the awareness of being there, in a world never again devoid of spiritual landmarks.
During the past 20 years Marian Zidaru was a prominent and disputed figure of the neo-Orthodox art in Romania. A high-profile, promising young sculptor, be became the mouthpiece of a radical reformist grouping inside the national Church.
For years, passions and polemics were stirred-up on a daily basis around him. He got used to preaching, to arguments and debates. He got used to “social sculpting” the community around him. He designed churches, monasteries, houses, clothes, furniture, instruments and books for them.
Art was everything else than art, that mere sculpture intended to sit on a pedestal in a gallery, secluded from life and action. The work was the art of living in a radical commitment to the spiritual turn of the people around him.
His impressive, visionary wooden sculptures acted like some pulpits out of which he exhorted his fellow citizens to a better understanding, a better living and better feeling. Yet, at a certain moment, art started to take again the lion’s share from his work.
What started as sculpture and then turned into social action, ultimately turned again, but at another level, into sculpture. Age, ideas, skills, faith and longings came together into this new momentum of his work.
Now, his wooden and bronze sculptures no longer preach. They articulate rooms, they populate atmospheres and they filter the sight. They blend into the actual lived experience, enhancing perception and the awareness of being there, in a world never again devoid of spiritual landmarks.
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| Sfantul Ioan 2008 Bronze 23x12cm |
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| Sfantul Gheorghe 2010 Wood Canvas |
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| Sf Ilie 1998 Wood |
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| Print 2010 Wood |
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| Plamada 2008 Bronze 45x10cm |
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| Pasari 2008 2010 18x7cm Series of 13 |
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| Muza 2008 Bronze 18x20cm |
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| Marian Zidaru |
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| Licorn 1997 Bronze 60x35cm |
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| Libelula 2010 Wood Canvas 292x121x12cm |
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| Leagan 2000 Wood Canvas 120x60cm |
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| Inger 2009 |
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| Gardul 2008 Wood Rope |
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| Fantana de Carti 1996 Paper Wax Rope 90x90x60cm |
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| Fantana Video 2007 Wood Video 60x56cm |
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| Cuburi 2001 2010 Bronze 14x14m Series of 14 |
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| Buna Vestire 2006 Bronze 130x50cm |