116. The Red Colosseum

The prolific interpretations of the great masters that Horia Damian realizes in his youth (Rembrandt, Velasquez, Delacroix) converge towards the careful study that the artist gives to the works of the second part of his creation, in France. In Paris, the artist takes over Mondrian's concerns for the geometricized subjects and transposes them into his works. He creates true monuments of art and perfects, throughout his artistic career, both his pictorial manner and the sculptural one. In the series dedicated to the columns, Damian annuls the primordial function of the central subject and gives innovative rhythms to the material of his canvases. The experiment becomes a way of existence and appears, like a leitmotif, throughout his work made after 1946. Starting from his belief that "Art starts from the extraordinary idea that we will never die and that is why it makes life fascinating " we obtain the key to decoding his entire work and we obtain new ways of interpreting his abstract research.

References

The exhibition catalog "Horia Damian", National Museum of Contemporary Art, September-October 2009. VARIA, Radu, "Horia Damian. Works from Romanian museums and collections, 1930-1946", Monitorul Oficial Publishing House, Bucharest, 2009.

Dimensions

width 54 cm, height 75 cm

Description

cromolitografie, signed bottom right, in pencil, "Damian"; numbered bottom left, in pencil, "99/100"

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