Christmas Tree, 2016*
Description
Size: 55 x 60 x 190 cm
Medium: Installation, mixed media, modernist table with lamp, tree, and vase
Signed and dated on the base, "Graur .16"
Provenance
Private Collection, Bucharest.
Literature
Literature: The work is presented in Teodor Graur's "Der Mann aus Balkanien" album published by Romanian Cultural Institute and K West Verlag in 2020, page 102.
Exhibition: The work was exhibited in the "Nature-Culture" exhibition at Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest in 2016.
Location
Bucharest
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Description
Teodor Graur's practice includes sculpture, installation, performance, photography and painting. While most of his body of work reflected on the transition period of the 1990s in Romania through performance, Graur then turned to art objects of critical, ironic and sometimes nostalgic resonance. Recycling symbolic remains from Eastern European contemporary culture, his ensemble pieces touch upon various topics, from sports to the culture of monuments. Christmas Tree, 2016, the installation-like assembly of objects, forms part of a series reflecting on the modernist imaginary, through recycling objects belonging to the symbolism of a grey everyday existence during communism. Through strikingly evocative associations of the vernacular and the novel, Graur’s object-installations poignantly reflect on recent history and the rapid changes we are subjected to. Graur participated in the Venice Biennale and the Istanbul International Art Biennale. He exhibited at art institutions and galleries around the world, including the Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Sammlung Essl, Vienna, National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, Tranzit, Bucharest, The Contemporary Art Gallery of the Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu.
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