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Website about Fine Art - Art gallery worldwide portal. Other useful information: Bronze stone and wood sculptures are presented along with more relevant monument sculptures, paintings and drawings. The sculptor exhibits figurative, abstract and conceptual art.
Bronze stone wood sculpture. Figurative abstract conceptual art - RADU AFTENIE
Bronze sculpture ,
monumental sculpture by contemporary artist Radu Aftenie.
The sculptor exhibits abstract, figurative and conceptual art. Monumental sculptures are presented
along with recent bronze sculptures , stone and wood sculptures and drawings
"Heroic" and "Burebista" both raised in the Magura-Buzau sculpture park , Radu
the bronze sculptures , creating an exhibit of
to higher values and aspirations of mankind. He populated numerous sculpture parks in
marble and bronze constructions; among which the Magura-Buzau sculpture park , said to be the largest in Europe.
artist takes the classes of a distinguished figure of Balkans’ sculpture: Corneliu
Medrea. Authoring an impressive number of monumental sculptures in Bucharest and
in the largest sculpture park from Europe - Magura Buzau , Radu Aftenie demonstrated a quality marking the art of
ideology. Radu Aftenie carved (1980) in Magura Buzau the first monumental sculpture horizontally
contemporary with Julius Caesar) and represents a cornerstone in the 80's sculpture . The artist’s wood sculpture spectacularly and
"AFRAsculptures"* - a suite of relatively small
Aftenie is capable of creating an exquisite ambience with any of his sculptures. The
"AFRAsculpture" is already part of a lifestyle…
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| Bronze Stone Wood Sculpture. Figurative Abstract Conceptual Art - RADU AFTENIE - Bronze stone wood sculpture. Figurative abstract conceptual art - RADU AFTENIE
Bronze sculpture ,
monumental sculpture by contemporary artist Radu Aftenie.
The sculptor exhibits abstract, figurative and conceptual art. Monumental sculptures are presented
along with recent bronze sculptures , stone and wood sculptures and drawings
"Heroic" and "Burebista" both raised in the Magura-Buzau sculpture park , Radu
the bronze sculptures , creating an exhibit of
to higher values and aspirations of mankind. He populated numerous sculpture parks in
marble and bronze constructions; among which the Magura-Buzau sculpture park , said to be the largest in Europe.
artist takes the classes of a distinguished figure of Balkans’ sculpture: Corneliu
Medrea. Authoring an impressive number of monumental sculptures in Bucharest and
in the largest sculpture park from Europe - Magura Buzau , Radu Aftenie demonstrated a quality marking the art of
ideology. Radu Aftenie carved (1980) in Magura Buzau the first monumental sculpture horizontally
contemporary with Julius Caesar) and represents a cornerstone in the 80's sculpture . The artist’s wood sculpture spectacularly and
"AFRAsculptures"* - a suite of relatively small
Aftenie is capable of creating an exquisite ambience with any of his sculptures. The
"AFRAsculpture" is already part of a lifestyle…
conceptual art, figurative and
Imposed to the art critique by two monumental compositions,
Aftenie assigns to his past activity other important works like "Mircea Eliade"
bronze portrait in Toronto, "Gheorghe Lazar" monument in Sibiu, or the monument
dedicated to "Mircea the Elder" at the Central Military Museum in Bucharest. One
could not miss in this brief enumeration other large-scale compositions such as "The
nation’s heroes" –marble and bronze in Saveni- Botosani, or "Glory to
the Romanian soldier", raised in Cluj. We are talking about a monument sculptor to whom the history
was - as to many other sculptors , a permanent
source of inspiration. What set aside Radu Aftenie was the original approach to structure
and his inclination towards a massive representation of the human body. His often-unusual
compositional findings refreshed the dull and emotionless monumentalizing line so specific
to 80s in Romania. How long and difficult was to be the road from the rebellious carver of
that period to the refined bronze
sculptor exhibiting these days at Simeza Gallery, only the artist could know. Proof of
his interior unrest may be the drawings covering
the walls of his exhibition. Genuine introspections and projects, these drawings precede
subtle plastic discourse. The theme could be the abstract vision of a human body
rhythmically depicted by essentialized body elements. It is true that for this new
discourse, yesterday’s carver had to choose the bronze that, with polished surfaces and guided
sharp-rounded forms, offered the artist a boost in expression. But parallel to these
searches already materialized in works of certain value, with few of his compositions Radu
Aftenie still confesses his undiminished joy and mission of "making monuments".
- excerpt from "The Civilization of the Eye – The mission to build
monuments".- translated from the Romanian newspaper ORA - author Victor Nita
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Midway between tradition and modernism…
- by Ileana Marcoulesco, freelance philosopher and art critic in Houston, Texas
Romanian sculptor Radu Aftenie emerged from a realist phase
with renewed vitality. He was and, to a certain extent, remains a sculptor of monuments , whether
dedicated, as in the past, to historical and cultural heroes of Romania or, in the
present, in an abstract manner,
Romania with impressive stone,
Intriguingly conceived is the stone portrait of Burebista ,
the mythic king of pre-Trajan Dacia become a symbol of autochthonous resistance to
invaders.
Aftenie benefited from a number of important shows in the post Ceausescu years at
well-known galleries in Bucharest, Cluj and elsewhere in the country.
A recent show at Anya Tish Gallery in Houston
presents his most recent pen and ink
drawings , highly stylized and expressive, in a style reminiscent of the avant-garde of
the twenties. The highly polished small bronzes bear titles like Tantalus, Transfiguration, Maternity, The
Pianist, The Lovers, The Musicologist, and feature energetically schematized bodies in
highly rhetorical and sometimes impossibly risked postures, embodying myths, while
including at other times imaginative and humorous elements.
The description of his works’ aims focuses on a sought harmony amidst tensions and
conflicts, and the achievement of human goals, unattainable in nature alone.
This mature artist is extremely productive and
strikes viewers as being in permanent evolution, while retaining a solid base in his
previous classical training. His dreams are of free development in an environment
stimulative of experiment.
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Radu Aftenie is one of the 10 best-ranked Romanian
contemporary sculptors. While student (1956-1962) at the Academy of Arts in Bucharest, the
all important Romanian contemporary artists: the strength to set apart from the
master’s influence and from esthetic dogmas required by the country’s past
seated at ground level. The work is titled "BUREBISTA" (king of Dacia,
categorically reaches the European contemporary art "standards". Many private
collectors in Europe, Asia and America enjoy one-of-a-kind exemplars coming from this
remarkable artist’s work. In a more recent period of his artistic pledge, one finds
the sculptor approaching the bronze , almost exclusively. His
bronzes , are already sought for their outstanding "character" and ability to
enrich aristocratic interiors. Modern and always surprising, marvelously expressive, Radu
by Paul Cornel Chitic, art critic Bucharest, Romania *AFRA
= pseudonym, short for AFtenie RAdu
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