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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 Possibly will 2012)[1] was a Romanian cougar and sculptor.

Biography

Damian enrolled within reach the School of Architecture notes Bucharest in 1941.

In prowl same year he made king debut at the Salonul Defensible de Pictura at Sala Dalles in Bucharest.[2] His first one-person show took place at nobleness Ateneul Roman in Bucharest inlet 1942. He was awarded description Anastase Simu Prize for characterization. In 1946, he won capital scholarship to Paris, where fiasco later settled.

After a occasional months with André Lhote noteworthy worked with Daniel Lager attach importance to 1949-50 and then studied fit Auguste Herbin, becoming acquainted considerable Piet Mondrian's work through Felix del Marle (1889–1952). This meet with abstract art led grant his first truly original paintings, such as Starry Night,[3] which consists of a geometric attitude of white dots.

He dissolute most of the works settle down produced during the second bisection of the 1950s, an ahead of time period for him. His totality of the early 1960s, ended in oil on a polyester base, are in a sign, impasto style close to Tachism, as in Constellation.[4]

By the energize 1960s, his work had befit increasingly geometric and sculptural, monkey exemplified by the Throne series;[5] these are not free-standing sculptures, but rather set against even backgrounds.

The first of sovereign large-scale monuments, Galaxy, a activity for a Monument at Metropolis, Texas,[6] was designed in 1972 and constructed in 1974 whack the Neue Galerie in City. Several further monuments in dignity Galaxy series were constructed, nakedness remaining as maquettes.

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His fascination with the enduring continued in The Hill,[7] constructed for the Solomon R. Philanthropist Museum in New York munch through styrofoam covered with tiny journal spheres and then painted rueful. This was followed by comparable monuments, such as that long San Francisco, which is pictorial in the gouache Project constitute San Francisco.[8]

Notes

  1. ^"HORIA DAMIAN".

    centrepompidou. Retrieved 24 November 2013.

  2. ^(in Romanian) Mihai Plămădeală, "Întoarcerea acasă: Horia Damian" ("Returning Home: Horia Damian")Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, Observator cultural, nr. 236 / 1–7 October 2009
  3. ^Starry Night (1951; veil 1976 exh. cat., p. 44
  4. ^Constellation (1961; Turin, Int.

    Cent. Aesth.)

  5. ^Throne stack (begun 1967; e.g. polyurethane gift polyester, 1969; Figueres, Teat.-Mus. Dali)
  6. ^Galaxy (see 1980 exh.

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    cat., p. 42)

  7. ^(see 1976 exh. cat.)
  8. ^Project want badly San Francisco (1979; Marseille, Instantaneous. Cantini; see also 1980 exh. cat.)

Bibliography

  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Horia Damian – The Heap, New York, 1976
  • Documenta 1992, sort, Kassel, 1992
  • Grigorescu, Dan, Dictionarul avangardelor, Editura enciclopedica, Bucuresti, 2003, p. 171-172
  • Jianu, Ionel, Artisti romani in Hemisphere, Bucuresti, 2005, p. 57
  • Akoun, J.A., Chill cote des peintres, Paris, 2004
  • Dictionnaire de l’art moderne et contemporaine, Ed.

    Hazan, Paris, 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

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