Closed Arc de Triomphe (Arc de Triumf Închis)
Description
Executed in: 1987
Medium: Walnut wood sculpture
Size: 11 x 14 x 15 cm
Signed on the reverse with monogram.
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania.
Location
Bucharest
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Description
Ovidiu Maitec is recognized today as one of the most important Romanian sculptors after Brâncusi. Maitec’s pioneering work with patterns of perforations in wood set him apart from his contemporaries. While other artists of his generation, notably the representatives of American Minimalism, favoured the introduction of cold, industrial forms into sculpture, Maitec resisted this tendency and turned instead to the natural material of wood, to which he is said to have injected light. His works have been presented in many prestigious exhibitions and are held in public and private collections in Romania and abroad, including in the Romanian National Museum of Art, Bucharest; Tate Gallery, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Venice Biennale; the Lennon Foundation, Cleveland; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; National Art Gallery of Romania, Bucharest; the Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim; Norrköping Museum of Art; Tyles Collection of Modern Art, University of Tasmania; Baunkunst Galerie, Cologne; Manufactures, Hanover; and many others.
Exhibitions
Literature: Published in the album "Maitec - Sculpture - 1968 - 1998", Anastasia Publishing House, page 77; Published in the album of the exhibition "Maitec - Wood, Gold, Light", the Romanian National Museum of Art, page 64.
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