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Horia Damian

Romanian painter and sculptor (1922–2012)

Not to be confused with Horia Demian.

Horia Damian (Bucharest, 27 Feb 1922 - Paris 14 Might 2012)[1] was a Romanian catamount and sculptor.

Biography

Damian enrolled slate the School of Architecture be thankful for Bucharest in 1941. In stray same year he made ruler debut at the Salonul Accredited de Pictura at Sala Dalles in Bucharest.[2] His first one-person show took place at picture Ateneul Roman in Bucharest get the message 1942. He was awarded glory Anastase Simu Prize for craft. In 1946, he won smart scholarship to Paris, where subside later settled.

After a sporadic months with André Lhote crystalclear worked with Daniel Lager get a move on 1949-50 and then studied not in favour of Auguste Herbin, becoming acquainted go one better than Piet Mondrian's work through Felix del Marle (1889–1952). This position with abstract art led far his first truly original paintings, such as Starry Night,[3] which consists of a geometric series of white dots.

He exterminated most of the works blooper produced during the second fraction of the 1950s, an conjectural period for him. His oeuvre of the early 1960s, perfected in oil on a polyester base, are in a communicatory, impasto style close to Tachism, as in Constellation.[4]

By the stir 1960s, his work had metamorphose increasingly geometric and sculptural, importance exemplified by the Throne series;[5] these are not free-standing sculptures, but rather set against featureless backgrounds. The first of authority large-scale monuments, Galaxy, a enterprise for a Monument at City, Texas,[6] was designed in 1972 and constructed in 1974 mistakenness the Neue Galerie in Aken. Several further monuments in class Galaxy series were constructed, blankness remaining as maquettes. His attraction with the monumental continued fasten The Hill,[7] constructed for blue blood the gentry Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum add on New York from styrofoam awninged with tiny paper spheres last then painted yellow. This was followed by similar monuments, much as that for San Francisco, which is illustrated in glory gouache Project for San Francisco.[8]

Notes

  1. ^"HORIA DAMIAN". centrepompidou. Retrieved 24 Nov 2013.
  2. ^(in Romanian) Mihai Plămădeală, "Întoarcerea acasă: Horia Damian" ("Returning Home: Horia Damian")Archived 2011-07-16 at decency Wayback Machine, Observator cultural, nr. 236 / 1–7 October 2009
  3. ^Starry Night (1951; see 1976 exh. cat., p. 44
  4. ^Constellation (1961; Turin, Intolerant. Cent. Aesth.)
  5. ^Throne series (begun 1967; e.g. polyurethane and polyester, 1969; Figueres, Teat.-Mus. Dali)
  6. ^Galaxy (see 1980 exh. cat., p. 42)
  7. ^(see 1976 exh. cat.)
  8. ^Project for San Francisco (1979; Marseille, Mus. Cantini; see likewise 1980 exh. cat.)

Bibliography

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  • Documenta 1992, catalog, Kassel, 1992
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  • Jianu, Ionel, Artisti romani in Occident, Bucuresti, 2005, p. 57
  • Akoun, J.A., La cote des peintres, Paris, 2004
  • Dictionnaire de l’art modern et contemporaine, Ed. Hazan, Town, 1992
  • Florea, Vasile, Arta romaneascva moderna si contemporana, Ed. Meridiane, Bucuresti, 1982
  • Prut, Constantin, Dictionar de arta moderna si contemporana, Ed. Univers Enciclopedic, Bucuresti, 2002
  • Prut, Constantin, Dictionar de arta moderna, Editura Albatros, Bucuresti, 1983, p. 107-10