50. Frieze [1988]

Carrying an entire living world in themselves, celebrating its events with rituals, ceremonies, and legends of old, the works of Georgeta Năpăruș become colourful expressions of a confidential universe. All things that come into being under the stroke of her brush are marked by a mysterious mingling of dream and reality which, lured by phantasy, undergoes metamorphoses, thus acquiring new senses and new dimensions. With an affinity open to the oneiric, her spirit watches with lucidity, exploiting the equivocal and polyvalence, but keeping the allusion of reality, needed for the construction in the symbol. (G.M.)

References

Bogdan Radu, „Georgeta Năpăruș și visările gliei”, Arta, nr. 4-5, 1980, pp. 28-29. Bogdan Radu, „Georgeta Năpăruș”, Ed. Meridiane, București, 1983.

Dimensions

width 60 cm, height 70 cm, custom 70 × 60 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed bottom right, with red, "G. Năpăruș"; signed, dated and entitled on the reverse, with green, "G. Năpăruș, Friză, 1988"

Research information

The artwork is reproduced in the album "Georgeta Năpăruș (1930-1997)", Verlag Buchkunst Berlin, p. 38. The artwork was part of the exhibition "Contrapunct. O retrospectivă Octav Grigorescu – Georgeta Năpăruș", National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, April 24 - September 30, 2018.

Dating

1988

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