FAMOUS ARTISTAdrian Ilfoveanu
“Art means life. When I create, I live.”
Adrian ilfoveanu
“The Father” - Adrian Ilfoveanu
Medium: golden foil plated wood
Dimensions: 220 cm x 70 cm
Year: 2017
Collection: Private Collection
Photo credit: Adrian Ilfoveanu
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Doctor of Fine Arts at the National University of Arts in Romania, Adrian Ilfoveanu is dedicated to sculpture. He carves wood, stone, pours bronze, and processes resins. From all this play in various materials are born fantastic creatures, birds, angels, old Adam and Eve. They are all are found in the creation of Adrian Ilfoveanu in an almost nirvana harmony. His imagination and materializing power bring these characters into our immediate reality, of those who love art and love to dream.
Born in 1971 in Pitesti, Romania
Currently lives and works in Bucharest, Romania
Activity
SOLO SHOWS
2016
- Exhibition, “Timisoara Art Museum”, Timisoara, Romania
2013
- “Incendiaria Clamatoria”, curator Mihai Zgondoiu, Atelier 030202, Bucharest, Romania
2012
- “Birds”, Geology Museum, Bucharest, Romania
- “Birds”, The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
- “Birds”, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2007
- “Eve lived in Plescoi”, The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania
- “Clamatoria”, curator George Moisescu, Bucharest National Opera House
2005
- Expozitie, The “Brancovan Palaces” Cultural Center of Mogosoaia, Romania
1999
- “Spotted conception”, National Museum of the Romanian Literature, Bucharest, Romania
- Exhibition, Valbert, Germany
1998
- Exhibition, Bancorex Art Galleries, Bucharest
GROUP SHOWS
2017
- The “Ilfoveanu Foundation” is inaugurated, a multicultural space with an area of 1000 square meters in which you can visit a permanent exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography of the members of the Ilfoveanu family.
2014
- “Teachers and their teachers”, The “Brancovan Palaces” Cultural Center of Mogosoaia, Romania
- “Bucharest artistic education and Romanian art after 1950”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
2013
- “pencil | ink | India ink”, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest
- “The little big art”, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest
2012
- “artZoom for summer_01”, AnnArt Gallery, Bucuresti
2010
- “Mitologie Soggettive”, exhibition organized by the National Art Museum of Romania at the Centro Espositivo Roca Paolina, Perugia, Italy
2009
- “Ilfoveanu Saga”, Art Society Gallery, Bucharest
2007
- “In the footsteps of Brancusi”, Mumbai National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
- Exhibition, French Cultural Institute in Helsinki, Finland
- “On the ruins of a museum”, UNAgaleria, Bucharest
2004
- “Contemporary Romanian sculptors”, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest
2002
- Exhibition, Littman & White Gallery, Portlan, SUA
2000
- Travelling Exhibition, Valbert, Germania si Coopenhaga, Danemarca
1997
- International Arts Symposium, Sarjah, Emiratele Arabe Unite
- Two Exhibitions, Oslo, Norvegia
1996
- “Neo-traditionalism and Neo-vanguard”, curator Erwin Kessler, “Caminul Artei” Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
EDUCATION
2011
- Doctor of Fine Arts, the National University of Arts – Bucharest
1997
- Scholarship program offered by the Italian Ministry of Culture, Rome, Italy
1995
- After finishing his bachelor studies, he is the beneficiary of a residency program offered by the Lions Group, on which occasion he made his first monument called “Arc de Triomphe”, in the city of Etlingen, Germany
1995
- National University of Arts – Bucharest, Sculpture Section
AWARDS
2007
- He creates the trophy for the Gopo Award – the awards of the Romanian film industry
2006
- The award for the best exhibition of the year offered by the Union of Visual Artists in Romania
2003
- The prize for youth offered by the Union of Visual Artists in Romania
- Winner of the National Project Competition for the redevelopment of the base of the former statue of Lenin with the sculpture “Monument of Freedom of Speech”, Bucharest, Romania
PRESS
“The Statues of Old Adam and Eve”: http://metropotam.ro/La-zi/I-3-Bucuresti-Statuile-Adam-si-Eva-batrani-art3114447448/
“Incendiara Clamatoria”: http://atelier030202.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive.html?m=1
“My sculpture is the music of shapes”: http://arhiva.formula-as.ro/2012/1035/lumea-romaneasca-24/adrian-ilfoveanu-sculptura-mea-este-o-muzica-a-formelor-15517
Interview: “Arta prin gaura cheii”, Smart FM, Bucuresti, Romania
Featured Works
“Eva Prima” - Adrian ILFOVEANU
Medium: bronze
Dimensions: 120 cm x 90 cm x 155 cm (h); 180 kg
Year: 2007
Collection: Private Collection
Photo credit: Ars Mater Gallery
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“Immaculate Conception” - Adrian ILFOVEANU
Medium: bronze
Dimensions: 140cm x 130 cm x 160 cm (h); 750 kg
Year: 2010
Collection: Public Collection
Photo credit: Ars Mater Gallery
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“Aged angel” - Adrian ILFOVEANU
Medium: bronze
Dimensions: 8 cm x 9 cm x 12 cm (h) ; 1200 g
Year: 2012
Collection: Private Collection
Photo credit: Ars Mater Gallery
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“Baccante” - Adrian ILFOVEANU
Medium: bronze
Dimensions: 60 cm x 25 cm x 90 cm (h); 35 kg
Year: 2009
Collection: Private Collection
Photo credit: Ars Mater Gallery
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“Genius” - Adrian ILFOVEANU
Medium: bronze
Dimensions: 140 cm x 110 cm x 300 cm; 600 kg
Year: 2012
Collection: Private Collection
Photo credit: Ars Mater Gallery
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