An imaginary portrait of the “Simbolul” group in 1912: Jacques Costin, lon Vinea, Tristan Tzara, Marcel lancu*
Description
Executed in: 1980
Medium: Felt-tip pen and pencil on semitransparent paper
Size: drawing 10.6 x 20.2 cm on 20 x 29.5 cm page (24 x 33.5 cm with frame)
Signed on the front lower right "Janco"
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania.
Previously Michael Ilk Collection, Germany.
Previously Lucian Boz Collection, Sydney, Australia, a good friend of the artist.
Confirmation Certificate given by Michael Ilk in 2010
Location
Bucharest
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Description
Romanian and Israeli visual artist, architect and art theorist Marcel Iancu was the co-inventor of Dadaism and a leading figure of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. An influential figure within all these fields, Iancu was also involved in several key publications during his career - including Romanian neo-avantgarde magazines Contimporanul and Simbolul, as founder, editor, writer and graphic designer.
Iancu’s experiments in abstract art stemmed from a theorization of abstract-expressionistic decorations as part of a basic architectural design. In 1926, he was present at the Hasefer Art Show in Bucharest, and created what is often described as the first Constructivist structure in Bucharest. He had several personal exhibitions, in Tel Aviv, Milan and Paris and attended the 1966 Venice Art Biennale. He won the Israel Prize of 1967, in recognition of his work as a painter.
Exhibitions
The drawing was exhibited in the following exhibitions: “Brâncuși, Tzara und die Rumänische Avantgarde”, Museum Bochum, 1997; “Brâncuși, Tzara und die Rumänische Avantgarde”, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 1997 “Rumänische Avantgarde”, Museum Regensburg, 1998 “Marcel Janco – Dadaist”, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 2002
Literature
Reproduced in the catalogue “Tzara. Dada. Etc.” by Erwin Kessler, Cătălin Davidescu, contribution Henri Behan, page 232, ARCUB, Bucharest 2016
Reproduced in the catalogue “Marcel Janco. Un visionnaire de l’art modern”, page 2, Colors Art Gallery, 2012
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