Ovidiu Maitec is recognized today as one of the most important Romanian sculptors after Brâncuși. Maitec’s pioneering works 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 turned instead to the natural material of wood. Finding inspiration in the archaic symbolism of myths and traditional objects such as gates, or elements from the natural world, his practice using various types of wood and sometimes bronze was consistent with its visual hallmark. 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; Baukunst Galerie, Cologne; Manufactures, Hanover; and many others.