Composition, c. 1926*
Description
Size: 34 x 49 cm (with original frame 47.5 x 62.5 cm)
Medium: Oil on cardboard (with artist original frame)
Signed on the front, "Marcel Iancu"
Provenance
Present from the artist to his doctor. Previously Petruț Collection, Bucharest. Aquired by the present owner from the above. Currently Private Collection, Germany.
Location
Germany
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.
In 1922, after a brief stay in Paris, Iancu returned to Romania. Composition, 1926 belongs to the period following his return, when a transition from paintings of local landscapes, peasants and interiors depicted in a modernist style and a palette of dark browns started to turn towards abstract shapes in a more colourful palette. His search for harmony in abstraction manifested itself through lines and colours that, similar to music compositions, are placed in an “un-arranged symphony”.
Exhibitions
“Contimporanul”, Bucharest, 1927 (February 13th – March 15th). “Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchanges and Transformation, 1910 - 1930”, County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2002 (March 10th - June 3rd). “Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchanges and Transformation, 1910 - 1930”, Haus der Kunst, München, 2002 (July 7th - October 6th). “Marcel Janco (1895 – 1984): Dadadist in hart ein nieren”, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, December 2002 – May 2003. “Marcel Jaco (1895 – 1984): Das graphische Werk”, Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2003 (October – November). “Zukunftsräume. Kandinsky, Mondrian, Lissitzky und die abstract-konstruktive Avantgarde in Dreseden 1919 – 1932”, Albertinum, Dresden, 2019 (March 2nd – June 2nd). “Marcel Janco – The Memory of the Line”, DADA Gallery, Bucharest, 2021
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