What gives life to my art is the challenge to find harmony inside tensions and contrasts; to build the spatial reconciliation of unresting volumes and openings...I try to bring in the expression of an art uniting elements that may otherwise seem incompatible in nature.
Biography:
The 2nd of October 1936 Bucharest, Romania
1952-1956
High school of Art, Bucharest
1956-1962
"Nicolae Grigorescu" Academy of Art, Bucharest, master Cornel Medrea’s class
1963-1965
"Fr. Stork" national sculpture scholarship
1963-present
Participates with works in stone, bronze and wood, in multiple individual and group exhibits, in national and international galleries, museums and symposiums of sculpture.
Commission work (sculptures and drawings) for private or state collections in Chile, U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Yugoslavia, Poland, France, Moldova, and Romania.
1963
SIMU museum Bucharest, Romania
1964
Ministry of Culture Gallery - Bucharest, Romania
1967
-SIMEZA Gallery - Bucharest, Romania
-"DALLES" Gallery - National arts exhibit "The Revolutionary year 1848", Bucharest, Romania
1968
SIMEZA Gallery - Bucharest, Romania
1969
-DALLES Gallery - Bucharest, Romania
-"Romanian Art" group exhibit - Tel Aviv, Israel
-"Romanian Art exhibition" - Titograd, Yugoslavia
-"Romanian Art" group exhibit - Warsaw, Poland
-"Romanian Art exhibition" - Rijeka, Croatia
1970
"Victory over Fascism" international exhibit - Poland, Warsaw
1972
Sculpture Park Museum MAGURA - Buzau, Romania
1973
FREDERICH SCHILLER Gallery Bucharest, Romania
1974
-The National Museum Bucharest Romania
-"DALLES" Gallery - "The Romanian Army in Fine Arts", Bucharest, Romania
1975
"The Palace Chamber" Gallery - "Artists during woman's international year", Bucharest, Romania
1976
-The Arts Gallery SOFIA, Bulgaria
-"Romanian Athenaeum" Gallery, Bucharest Romania
-The International "Contest of Portraits" - Paris, France
1977
-Sculpture Park Museum Burgas, Bulgaria
-"DALLES" Gallery - National exhibit "Romanian Peasants", Bucharest, Romania
1979
-Sculpture Park Museum "MAGURA" - Buzau, Romania
-Contemporary Arts Museum - Galati, Romania
-"Romanian Sculpture" group exhibit - Sofia, Bulgaria
-"Arts and Crafts" group exhibit - Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1980
-Sculpture Park Museum MAGURA Buzau, Romania
-The National Museum - "2050 years from the proclamation of the centralized state, Dacia", Bucharest, Romania
1981
-The Contemporary Art Museum Galati, Romania
-"DALLES" Gallery - "Mother and Child" exhibit, Bucharest, Romania
-"Sculpture and Tapestry" itinerant exhibit, Berlin , Germany
1982
-Horizon Gallery - Bucharest, Romania
-"DALLES" Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1983
The Art Museum Sibiu, Romania
1984
-The National Museum Bucharest, Romania
-"Romanian Art" group exhibit - Jerusalem, Israel
1986
Municipal Museum Pitesti, Romania
1987
Horizon Gallery Bucharest, Romania
1988
The Museum Park - Saliste Sibiu, Romania
1992
APOLLO Gallery Bucharest, Romania
1993
Horizon Gallery Bucharest, Romania
1997
The Art Gallery Medgidia, Romania
1999
Art Gallery of the Architecture Institute Bucharest, Romania
2000
APOLLO Gallery Bucharest, Romania
2001
-SIMEZA Gallery Bucharest, Romania
-"ANYA TISH" Gallery - Houston, TX, USA
-Romanian State Collection
-National Museum Collection, Romania
-Romanian Patrimony
-Private Collections in Chile, U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Yugoslavia, Poland, France, Moldova, and Romania.
1977
International prize for "THE SUN TIME", monumental sculpture in Burgas, Bulgaria.
1992
Certificate of Inclusion in "The International Who’s Who of Intellectuals", International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England
1992
Declared "International Man of the year" by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England
1994
Awarded the "Plate of recognition for efforts made towards the spiritual enrichment of the International Community" North Carolina, USA
1996
Awarded the title of "Most prominent citizen of Cluj-Napoca", Romania
1997
Declared the second time "International Man of the year" by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England
1976, 1999, 2000
Encyclopedia of Romanian contemporary Artists, Bucharest
1980
Magura - The Sculpture Camp, Bucharest
1982
-The Modern Art Dictionary, Bucharest
-Romanian Modern and Contemporary Art, Bucharest
1983
Monuments of years of fight and sacrifice dictionary, Bucharest
1984
Romanian Contemporary Sculptors, Bucharest
Country: Romania
E-mail: radu@aftenie.com
Site: Bronze, wood and stone sculpture by RADU AFTENIE
