41. Harlequin

With studies at the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Institute of Fine Arts, which he graduated in 1974, the artist Ioan Jean Pârvan will assert himself through an anecdotal sculpture, with a generous openness to the human. He will display personal exhibitions in Bucharest (1976; 1977; 1989; 1990), in Paris (1992; 1999), and equally in group exhibitions (1968, Craiova), symposiums (1985, Sighet) or exhibitions of Romanian art abroad (1988, Heilbroom; 1998, Leipzig). Attracted by the world of theatre, the grotesque and the transvestites, his world will be made up of a series of harlequins and clowns, favoured characters of his meticulously-expressive sculpture. Burlesque silhouettes, rhetorical gestures, grimaces, will propose under the guise of the transvestite themes such as melancholy, absurdity or irony. (G.M.)

References

GROZDEA, Mircea, "Sculptori români contemporani" ("Contemporary Romanian sculptors"), Meridiane Publishing House, Bucharest, 1984. VLASIU, Ioana (coord.), "Dicționarul sculptorilor din România. Secolele XIX-XX, Lit. H-Z" ("Dictionary of Romanian sculptors. 19th-20th centuries, Letters H-Z"), Vol. II, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest, 2012.

Dimensions

custom 48 x 61 x 84 cm (sculptura); 18 x 18 x 18 cm (soclu)

Description

bronze and marble base

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