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Pavel Șușară: Constantin Brâncuși or about Sculpture with No History
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On Sunday, 22 May 2016, as of 11.00 a.m., in the NTB Black Box Hall, Mr. Pavel Șușară shall hold the conference entitled - Constantin Brâncuși or about Sculpture with No History.
About the conference
No other personality of Romanian culture seems to have stirred the fascination and passion prompted in a relatively short time by Constantin Brâncuşi. Not even the human and cultural existence of Eminescu, by far the most significant in the interest of the Romanian audience in a time frame exceeding the strict limits of a century, in which a Romantic destiny overlaps, up to absorption, with the mythological amplitude and metaphysical effervescence of a quasi-legendary oeuvre, did not experience such an irrepressible and passionate calling towards knowledge.
Because sculpture is, as an assumed cultural project, an exclusively Western artistic and symbolic product, until the mid-nineteenth century, the Romanian area did not know sculpture as a common exercise and as an appropriated practice.
Without being situated in the direct filiation of a certain pattern, but also without reviving, through cultural quotation, any museified form, Brâncuşi suggests, in a perspective liberated both from the pragmatism of representation and from the bovarism of imaginary construction, the possibility of another reading of sculpture, much closer to a certain Elysian space, of primordial innocence. Pavel Șușară
About Pavel Șușară
- Romanian art critic and historian, monographer, poet, publicist and writer, art history researcher at the Art History Institute attached to the Romanian Academy
- Born in 1953, Bănia town, Caraş-Severin County
- Graduate of the ,,Nicolae Grigorescu’’ Fine Arts Institute (Fine Arts University) Bucharest, Faculty of Museology – Art History and Theory, 1977-1981
- Collaborations with studies and articles of fine arts, poetry, prose, essay, polemic and civic engagement with the magazines: Arta, old and new series, SCIA, Almanahul Arta, Artelier, Balkon, Almanahul literar, Luceafărul (new series), Contrapunct, 22, Dilema, România literară, Apostrof, Avantaje, Vineri, Amphion, Ianus, Observatorul Cultural, Libertatea, Europa liberă, Acolada etc.
- Radio and television collaborations, host of the show Lentila de contact, TVR Cultural
- Exhibitions organised in Romania and abroad (Hungary, Poland, Italy), participations in symposiums, congresses and relevant meetings in Romania and a few European countries (Italy, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Hungary, Finland).
- Member of the Visual Artists’ Union of Romania, criticism department; Member of the Romanian Writers’ Guild, poetry section; Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
- Certificate in museography; art expert, certified by the Ministry of Culture; President of the Association of Art Experts and Evaluators of Romania; evaluator of mobile cultural goods, UNEVAR member.
Published books (selections):
The Rule of the Game, poetry, 1996 (Writers’ Guild Award); Veto, prose poems, l998 (“Al.Odobescu” Award for poetry, Călăraşi 1998); Tetraktys, poems, 2000 (nominated for the Experiment Award of ASPRO, Bookharest Book Fair 2001);
Eight True Stories/ with Wonderful Beings, poetry for children, 2000 (Writers’ Guild Award); Corneliu Baba, monograph album, Parkstone Publishing House, Paris, 2001 (nominated for the Art Book Award, Bookharest Book Fair 2001, Prize for best Romanian book published at a foreign publishing house, Bookharest Book Fair 2002); Suicide is Postponed, short prose, 2003 (nominated for the ASPRO Prose Award); Corneliu Baba, monograph album, Romanian edition, Monitorul Oficial Publishing House, 2013
Other awards and distinctions:
Prize for Criticism of the Visual Artists’ Union of Romania - 1995
Cella Delavrancea Award for cultural activity in 1997
Cultural Merit Order to the rank of Knight, awarded by the Romanian President, 2004
The Oreste Tafrali Award, Poetry Academy, Iaşi, 2010
In 2002, he establishes the Luchian 12 art gallery. In 2005, he founded the Pogany Auction House. In 2005, he constitutes the Association of Art Experts and Evaluators of Romania, whose President he is.
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
