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Exposed to Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, 28 November 2017 - 18 November 2018. Catalog published by Palombi Editori. Critical text by Alberto Dambruoso. Exhibition design by Arch. Pietro Bagli Pennacchiotti. Photographs Sebastiano Luciano. Video about Columna mutãtio - THE SPIRAL: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkpyB6eXPw&feature=share Video: https://youtu.be/RZ352MPKm4I AGENZIA VISTA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUl_zZDsOLs&feature=share Exhibition promoted by the Musei in Comune of Roma Capitale, the Capitoline Cultural Heritage Superintendency of Rome, the Councilorship for Cultural Growth of the City of Rome, the Zètema Cultura project, with the cultural support of the Embassy of Romania in Italy, the Embassy of Romania to the Holy See, the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, with the support of the Romanian Academy in Rome.ù I made the work in two years. The message I want to convey through my installation “Columna mutãtio – THE SPIRAL” concerns the “mutation” of meaning that occurs in the course of history. I think of my work as a sincere tribute to the memory of that past as relived in the present, in the dialog between the historical, artistic and archeological value of Trajan’s Column and our contemporary world. I took as my references the same sources of inspiration – itineraria picta, volumina and triumphal paintings – that the architect Apollodorus of Damascus drew on when he conceived of Trajan’s Column as a long marble “ribbon” wound around a shaft and sculpted in bas-relief. Based on the Column’s conceptual dynamic, I interpreted certain essential aspects of its composition – the gestuality of the spiral movement of the frieze, the continuum, the original polychromy, its various meanings – in order to create an artwork with maximum structural and representational synthesis, unwound and emptied of all matter, reduced to pure geometry. Its horizontal layout alludes to the archeological artifact as a museumized object, a metaphor of the idea that history flows horizontally. While Trajan’s historiated cochlide column tells a true story that has a beginning and an end, my “Columna mutãtio – THE SPIRAL” is a fragment with no beginning and no end, where time is not delimited but runs on infinitely. My installation is a spiral consisting of an aluminum ribbon held in place by a rolled-aluminum tubular structure with a variable radius. Its dimensions are in a 1-to-3 proportion in respect of those of Trajan’s Column, and its seven coils are held in forced torsion, as if they were winding around an imaginary shaft. As regards the work’s physical nature, I drew on the plaster casts made of the Column’s frieze in the nineteenth century. The contrast between the monument’s weight and the lightness of my work is an informal one. The alternation of the spaces between the coils generates an optical blending between the visible and the invisible matter, expressed as a harmonious ratio. I made the work in two years' time, with important professional and artisan collaborations of the highest quality. My Spiral has an inside and an outside surface. I used the inner surface to pay tribute to the Dacian people by depicting symbols handed down from pre-Dacian culture and spirituality, including symbols related to the subject of death. All of this is contained in condensed form by means of written texts, rendered in lettering close to the Roman lapidary style and dominated by tinted whites with gold highlights, laid over multiple layers of color. The gilded words “Decebalus per Scorilus” (Decebalus son of Scorilus) allude to the Dacians’ wealth. The “Symbols” are black, and are arranged in a rhythmic and ritualistic way. The contrast between the pale-hued texts and the black symbolic images creates a sense of drama, but in a contained and pensive way, with traces of joy: an emotion typical of Dacians before they were sacrificed. On the other hand, the Spiral’s outer surface has an intense chromatic impact that evokes the force of life in a color-filled world. For this part I chose, drew and interpreted of a number of marble statues, turning them into symbols which, through repetition, acquired iconic value. These designs refer to the Roman world and act as throbs of memory in an open space traversed by Latin words that refer directly to the story told in the Column’s frieze. The symbols, the icons and the texts are evocative instruments that I used to create a new story that neither contradicts nor reproduces the one told by the Column, but flanks the original work in a different, free and imaginative perspective. The modern character of Roman art provided aesthetic and compositional answers. Some of my designs interpret ancient Roman statues as humanized and interconnected symbolic images in which the depiction of the human body is based not on its anatomy but on its representation in works of art. The layered texts are interwoven with the colored outlines, becoming images that tend to expand into the outlying space: a rhythmic sequence of interpretative images joined in a fluid progression, an open continuity. Just as the Column’s frieze can be read in various ways, I likewise inserted multiple interpretative keys in order to create a composition in which, thanks to the coils’ three-dimensional nature, dynamic moments alternate with pauses, and the poetics of the infinite continuum allude to the horizontal flow of history and the abstract dimension of time. The mutation of meaning on which the installation’s message focuses has acquired strong multicultural value for me. That is why I decided to insert at the end of my work, as a symbol looking toward the future, an icon that for years has represented me, namely the COWMAN, descendant of the ANIMAL-MAN figure in which nature and civilization merge. This subject embodies my philosophical and artistic view of our contemporary world. Produced by metamorphosis and mutation, this figure represents the history of the conditioned transformation and the evolution of the spirit that resides in all of us. Its evolution into the COWMAN makes it a citizen of the world and protagonist of the future. At the same time that I was working on the aluminum support, I made four paintings on canvas, departing from the itineraria and entering large “pages” on which I explored some characteristic elements that recur in the installation’s graphic/pictorial fabric. My purpose here was to clarify to viewers the “instruments” that make up my symbolic “orchestra”: Deities, Writings, Symbols and Itineraria. Starting from silkscreen printing, I developed a special pictorial technique that I’ve been using for some years to create unique artworks (not to produce multiples). I “painted” the Spiral in “layers,” inside and outside, applying silkscreen paint by hand and using screens on which I engraved more than fifty preparatory drawings. Handling the screens as if they were paintbrushes, pencils or engraving points, thus working with superimposed “sets of shapes,” enables me to create sharp images whose strong and clean chromatic impact supports the materiality of the colors, and at the same time renders details with great precision. The moment is unrepeatable, as it is in painting. The beauty of this technique also lies in the trace left by the layer of ink that passes through the screen mesh, and in the vibrant intensity of the colors.
Exposed to Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, 28 November 2017 - 18 November 2018. Catalog published by Palombi Editori. Critical text by Alberto Dambruoso. Exhibition design by Arch. Pietro Bagli Pennacchiotti. Photographs Sebastiano Luciano. Video about Columna mutãtio - THE SPIRAL: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkpyB6eXPw&feature=share Video: https://youtu.be/RZ352MPKm4I AGENZIA VISTA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUl_zZDsOLs&feature=share Exhibition promoted by the Musei in Comune of Roma Capitale, the Capitoline Cultural Heritage Superintendency of Rome, the Councilorship for Cultural Growth of the City of Rome, the Zètema Cultura project, with the cultural support of the Embassy of Romania in Italy, the Embassy of Romania to the Holy See, the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, with the support of the Romanian Academy in Rome.ù I made the work in two years. The message I want to convey through my installation “Columna mutãtio – THE SPIRAL” concerns the “mutation” of meaning that occurs in the course of history. I think of my work as a sincere tribute to the memory of that past as relived in the present, in the dialog between the historical, artistic and archeological value of Trajan’s Column and our contemporary world. I took as my references the same sources of inspiration – itineraria picta, volumina and triumphal paintings – that the architect Apollodorus of Damascus drew on when he conceived of Trajan’s Column as a long marble “ribbon” wound around a shaft and sculpted in bas-relief. Based on the Column’s conceptual dynamic, I interpreted certain essential aspects of its composition – the gestuality of the spiral movement of the frieze, the continuum, the original polychromy, its various meanings – in order to create an artwork with maximum structural and representational synthesis, unwound and emptied of all matter, reduced to pure geometry. Its horizontal layout alludes to the archeological artifact as a museumized object, a metaphor of the idea that history flows horizontally. While Trajan’s historiated cochlide column tells a true story that has a beginning and an end, my “Columna mutãtio – THE SPIRAL” is a fragment with no beginning and no end, where time is not delimited but runs on infinitely. My installation is a spiral consisting of an aluminum ribbon held in place by a rolled-aluminum tubular structure with a variable radius. Its dimensions are in a 1-to-3 proportion in respect of those of Trajan’s Column, and its seven coils are held in forced torsion, as if they were winding around an imaginary shaft. As regards the work’s physical nature, I drew on the plaster casts made of the Column’s frieze in the nineteenth century. The contrast between the monument’s weight and the lightness of my work is an informal one. The alternation of the spaces between the coils generates an optical blending between the visible and the invisible matter, expressed as a harmonious ratio. I made the work in two years' time, with important professional and artisan collaborations of the highest quality. My Spiral has an inside and an outside surface. I used the inner surface to pay tribute to the Dacian people by depicting symbols handed down from pre-Dacian culture and spirituality, including symbols related to the subject of death. All of this is contained in condensed form by means of written texts, rendered in lettering close to the Roman lapidary style and dominated by tinted whites with gold highlights, laid over multiple layers of color. The gilded words “Decebalus per Scorilus” (Decebalus son of Scorilus) allude to the Dacians’ wealth. The “Symbols” are black, and are arranged in a rhythmic and ritualistic way. The contrast between the pale-hued texts and the black symbolic images creates a sense of drama, but in a contained and pensive way, with traces of joy: an emotion typical of Dacians before they were sacrificed. On the other hand, the Spiral’s outer surface has an intense chromatic impact that evokes the force of life in a color-filled world. For this part I chose, drew and interpreted of a number of marble statues, turning them into symbols which, through repetition, acquired iconic value. These designs refer to the Roman world and act as throbs of memory in an open space traversed by Latin words that refer directly to the story told in the Column’s frieze. The symbols, the icons and the texts are evocative instruments that I used to create a new story that neither contradicts nor reproduces the one told by the Column, but flanks the original work in a different, free and imaginative perspective. The modern character of Roman art provided aesthetic and compositional answers. Some of my designs interpret ancient Roman statues as humanized and interconnected symbolic images in which the depiction of the human body is based not on its anatomy but on its representation in works of art. The layered texts are interwoven with the colored outlines, becoming images that tend to expand into the outlying space: a rhythmic sequence of interpretative images joined in a fluid progression, an open continuity. Just as the Column’s frieze can be read in various ways, I likewise inserted multiple interpretative keys in order to create a composition in which, thanks to the coils’ three-dimensional nature, dynamic moments alternate with pauses, and the poetics of the infinite continuum allude to the horizontal flow of history and the abstract dimension of time. The mutation of meaning on which the installation’s message focuses has acquired strong multicultural value for me. That is why I decided to insert at the end of my work, as a symbol looking toward the future, an icon that for years has represented me, namely the COWMAN, descendant of the ANIMAL-MAN figure in which nature and civilization merge. This subject embodies my philosophical and artistic view of our contemporary world. Produced by metamorphosis and mutation, this figure represents the history of the conditioned transformation and the evolution of the spirit that resides in all of us. Its evolution into the COWMAN makes it a citizen of the world and protagonist of the future. At the same time that I was working on the aluminum support, I made four paintings on canvas, departing from the itineraria and entering large “pages” on which I explored some characteristic elements that recur in the installation’s graphic/pictorial fabric. My purpose here was to clarify to viewers the “instruments” that make up my symbolic “orchestra”: Deities, Writings, Symbols and Itineraria. Starting from silkscreen printing, I developed a special pictorial technique that I’ve been using for some years to create unique artworks (not to produce multiples). I “painted” the Spiral in “layers,” inside and outside, applying silkscreen paint by hand and using screens on which I engraved more than fifty preparatory drawings. Handling the screens as if they were paintbrushes, pencils or engraving points, thus working with superimposed “sets of shapes,” enables me to create sharp images whose strong and clean chromatic impact supports the materiality of the colors, and at the same time renders details with great precision. The moment is unrepeatable, as it is in painting. The beauty of this technique also lies in the trace left by the layer of ink that passes through the screen mesh, and in the vibrant intensity of the colors.
Exposed to Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, 28 November 2017 - 18 November 2018. Catalog published by Palombi Editori. Critical text by Alberto Dambruoso. Exhibition design by Arch. Pietro Bagli Pennacchiotti. Photographs Sebastiano Luciano. Video about Columna mutãtio - THE SPIRAL: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkpyB6eXPw&feature=share Video: https://youtu.be/RZ352MPKm4I AGENZIA VISTA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUl_zZDsOLs&feature=share Exhibition promoted by the Musei in Comune of Roma Capitale, the Capitoline Cultural Heritage Superintendency of Rome, the Councilorship for Cultural Growth of the City of Rome, the Zètema Cultura project, with the cultural support of the Embassy of Romania in Italy, the Embassy of Romania to the Holy See, the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, with the support of the Romanian Academy in Rome.ù I made the work in two years. The message I want to convey through my installation “Columna mutãtio – THE SPIRAL” concerns the “mutation” of meaning that occurs in the course of history. I think of my work as a sincere tribute to the memory of that past as relived in the present, in the dialog between the historical, artistic and archeological value of Trajan’s Column and our contemporary world. I took as my references the same sources of inspiration – itineraria picta, volumina and triumphal paintings – that the architect Apollodorus of Damascus drew on when he conceived of Trajan’s Column as a long marble “ribbon” wound around a shaft and sculpted in bas-relief. Based on the Column’s conceptual dynamic, I interpreted certain essential aspects of its composition – the gestuality of the spiral movement of the frieze, the continuum, the original polychromy, its various meanings – in order to create an artwork with maximum structural and representational synthesis, unwound and emptied of all matter, reduced to pure geometry. Its horizontal layout alludes to the archeological artifact as a museumized object, a metaphor of the idea that history flows horizontally. While Trajan’s historiated cochlide column tells a true story that has a beginning and an end, my “Columna mutãtio – THE SPIRAL” is a fragment with no beginning and no end, where time is not delimited but runs on infinitely. My installation is a spiral consisting of an aluminum ribbon held in place by a rolled-aluminum tubular structure with a variable radius. Its dimensions are in a 1-to-3 proportion in respect of those of Trajan’s Column, and its seven coils are held in forced torsion, as if they were winding around an imaginary shaft. As regards the work’s physical nature, I drew on the plaster casts made of the Column’s frieze in the nineteenth century. The contrast between the monument’s weight and the lightness of my work is an informal one. The alternation of the spaces between the coils generates an optical blending between the visible and the invisible matter, expressed as a harmonious ratio. I made the work in two years' time, with important professional and artisan collaborations of the highest quality. My Spiral has an inside and an outside surface. I used the inner surface to pay tribute to the Dacian people by depicting symbols handed down from pre-Dacian culture and spirituality, including symbols related to the subject of death. All of this is contained in condensed form by means of written texts, rendered in lettering close to the Roman lapidary style and dominated by tinted whites with gold highlights, laid over multiple layers of color. The gilded words “Decebalus per Scorilus” (Decebalus son of Scorilus) allude to the Dacians’ wealth. The “Symbols” are black, and are arranged in a rhythmic and ritualistic way. The contrast between the pale-hued texts and the black symbolic images creates a sense of drama, but in a contained and pensive way, with traces of joy: an emotion typical of Dacians before they were sacrificed. On the other hand, the Spiral’s outer surface has an intense chromatic impact that evokes the force of life in a color-filled world. For this part I chose, drew and interpreted of a number of marble statues, turning them into symbols which, through repetition, acquired iconic value. These designs refer to the Roman world and act as throbs of memory in an open space traversed by Latin words that refer directly to the story told in the Column’s frieze. The symbols, the icons and the texts are evocative instruments that I used to create a new story that neither contradicts nor reproduces the one told by the Column, but flanks the original work in a different, free and imaginative perspective. The modern character of Roman art provided aesthetic and compositional answers. Some of my designs interpret ancient Roman statues as humanized and interconnected symbolic images in which the depiction of the human body is based not on its anatomy but on its representation in works of art. The layered texts are interwoven with the colored outlines, becoming images that tend to expand into the outlying space: a rhythmic sequence of interpretative images joined in a fluid progression, an open continuity. Just as the Column’s frieze can be read in various ways, I likewise inserted multiple interpretative keys in order to create a composition in which, thanks to the coils’ three-dimensional nature, dynamic moments alternate with pauses, and the poetics of the infinite continuum allude to the horizontal flow of history and the abstract dimension of time. The mutation of meaning on which the installation’s message focuses has acquired strong multicultural value for me. That is why I decided to insert at the end of my work, as a symbol looking toward the future, an icon that for years has represented me, namely the COWMAN, descendant of the ANIMAL-MAN figure in which nature and civilization merge. This subject embodies my philosophical and artistic view of our contemporary world. Produced by metamorphosis and mutation, this figure represents the history of the conditioned transformation and the evolution of the spirit that resides in all of us. Its evolution into the COWMAN makes it a citizen of the world and protagonist of the future. At the same time that I was working on the aluminum support, I made four paintings on canvas, departing from the itineraria and entering large “pages” on which I explored some characteristic elements that recur in the installation’s graphic/pictorial fabric. My purpose here was to clarify to viewers the “instruments” that make up my symbolic “orchestra”: Deities, Writings, Symbols and Itineraria. Starting from silkscreen printing, I developed a special pictorial technique that I’ve been using for some years to create unique artworks (not to produce multiples). I “painted” the Spiral in “layers,” inside and outside, applying silkscreen paint by hand and using screens on which I engraved more than fifty preparatory drawings. Handling the screens as if they were paintbrushes, pencils or engraving points, thus working with superimposed “sets of shapes,” enables me to create sharp images whose strong and clean chromatic impact supports the materiality of the colors, and at the same time renders details with great precision. The moment is unrepeatable, as it is in painting. The beauty of this technique also lies in the trace left by the layer of ink that passes through the screen mesh, and in the vibrant intensity of the colors.
Exposed to Mercati di Traiano - Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, 28 November 2017 - 18 November 2018. Catalog published by Palombi Editori. Critical text by Alberto Dambruoso. Exhibition design by Arch. Pietro Bagli Pennacchiotti. Photographs Sebastiano Luciano. Video about Columna mutãtio - THE SPIRAL: Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkpyB6eXPw&feature=share Video: https://youtu.be/RZ352MPKm4I AGENZIA VISTA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUl_zZDsOLs&feature=share Exhibition promoted by the Musei in Comune of Roma Capitale, the Capitoline Cultural Heritage Superintendency of Rome, the Councilorship for Cultural Growth of the City of Rome, the Zètema Cultura project, with the cultural support of the Embassy of Romania in Italy, the Embassy of Romania to the Holy See, the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice, with the support of the Romanian Academy in Rome.ù I made the work in two years. The message I want to convey through my installation “Columna mutãtio – THE SPIRAL” concerns the “mutation” of meaning that occurs in the course of history. I think of my work as a sincere tribute to the memory of that past as relived in the present, in the dialog between the historical, artistic and archeological value of Trajan’s Column and our contemporary world. I took as my references the same sources of inspiration – itineraria picta, volumina and triumphal paintings – that the architect Apollodorus of Damascus drew on when he conceived of Trajan’s Column as a long marble “ribbon” wound around a shaft and sculpted in bas-relief. Based on the Column’s conceptual dynamic, I interpreted certain essential aspects of its composition – the gestuality of the spiral movement of the frieze, the continuum, the original polychromy, its various meanings – in order to create an artwork with maximum structural and representational synthesis, unwound and emptied of all matter, reduced to pure geometry. Its horizontal layout alludes to the archeological artifact as a museumized object, a metaphor of the idea that history flows horizontally. While Trajan’s historiated cochlide column tells a true story that has a beginning and an end, my “Columna mutãtio – THE SPIRAL” is a fragment with no beginning and no end, where time is not delimited but runs on infinitely. My installation is a spiral consisting of an aluminum ribbon held in place by a rolled-aluminum tubular structure with a variable radius. Its dimensions are in a 1-to-3 proportion in respect of those of Trajan’s Column, and its seven coils are held in forced torsion, as if they were winding around an imaginary shaft. As regards the work’s physical nature, I drew on the plaster casts made of the Column’s frieze in the nineteenth century. The contrast between the monument’s weight and the lightness of my work is an informal one. The alternation of the spaces between the coils generates an optical blending between the visible and the invisible matter, expressed as a harmonious ratio. I made the work in two years' time, with important professional and artisan collaborations of the highest quality. My Spiral has an inside and an outside surface. I used the inner surface to pay tribute to the Dacian people by depicting symbols handed down from pre-Dacian culture and spirituality, including symbols related to the subject of death. All of this is contained in condensed form by means of written texts, rendered in lettering close to the Roman lapidary style and dominated by tinted whites with gold highlights, laid over multiple layers of color. The gilded words “Decebalus per Scorilus” (Decebalus son of Scorilus) allude to the Dacians’ wealth. The “Symbols” are black, and are arranged in a rhythmic and ritualistic way. The contrast between the pale-hued texts and the black symbolic images creates a sense of drama, but in a contained and pensive way, with traces of joy: an emotion typical of Dacians before they were sacrificed. On the other hand, the Spiral’s outer surface has an intense chromatic impact that evokes the force of life in a color-filled world. For this part I chose, drew and interpreted of a number of marble statues, turning them into symbols which, through repetition, acquired iconic value. These designs refer to the Roman world and act as throbs of memory in an open space traversed by Latin words that refer directly to the story told in the Column’s frieze. The symbols, the icons and the texts are evocative instruments that I used to create a new story that neither contradicts nor reproduces the one told by the Column, but flanks the original work in a different, free and imaginative perspective. The modern character of Roman art provided aesthetic and compositional answers. Some of my designs interpret ancient Roman statues as humanized and interconnected symbolic images in which the depiction of the human body is based not on its anatomy but on its representation in works of art. The layered texts are interwoven with the colored outlines, becoming images that tend to expand into the outlying space: a rhythmic sequence of interpretative images joined in a fluid progression, an open continuity. Just as the Column’s frieze can be read in various ways, I likewise inserted multiple interpretative keys in order to create a composition in which, thanks to the coils’ three-dimensional nature, dynamic moments alternate with pauses, and the poetics of the infinite continuum allude to the horizontal flow of history and the abstract dimension of time. The mutation of meaning on which the installation’s message focuses has acquired strong multicultural value for me. That is why I decided to insert at the end of my work, as a symbol looking toward the future, an icon that for years has represented me, namely the COWMAN, descendant of the ANIMAL-MAN figure in which nature and civilization merge. This subject embodies my philosophical and artistic view of our contemporary world. Produced by metamorphosis and mutation, this figure represents the history of the conditioned transformation and the evolution of the spirit that resides in all of us. Its evolution into the COWMAN makes it a citizen of the world and protagonist of the future. At the same time that I was working on the aluminum support, I made four paintings on canvas, departing from the itineraria and entering large “pages” on which I explored some characteristic elements that recur in the installation’s graphic/pictorial fabric. My purpose here was to clarify to viewers the “instruments” that make up my symbolic “orchestra”: Deities, Writings, Symbols and Itineraria. Starting from silkscreen printing, I developed a special pictorial technique that I’ve been using for some years to create unique artworks (not to produce multiples). I “painted” the Spiral in “layers,” inside and outside, applying silkscreen paint by hand and using screens on which I engraved more than fifty preparatory drawings. Handling the screens as if they were paintbrushes, pencils or engraving points, thus working with superimposed “sets of shapes,” enables me to create sharp images whose strong and clean chromatic impact supports the materiality of the colors, and at the same time renders details with great precision. The moment is unrepeatable, as it is in painting. The beauty of this technique also lies in the trace left by the layer of ink that passes through the screen mesh, and in the vibrant intensity of the colors.
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Columna mutãtio -THE SPIRAL interprets Traiana's Column-masterpiece of art and architecture from Roman Antiquity. The message is the mutation of meaning that occurs in course of history. I interpreted the Column’s conceptual dynamic, the gestuality of the spiral movement of the frieze, the continuum, original polychromy, its various meanings, creating maximum structural and representational synthesis, unwound and emptied of all matter, reduced to pure geometry. Its horizontal layout alludes to the archeological artifact as a museumized object, a metaphor of the idea that history flows horizontally. Realised 2015-2017, the artwork is painting in manual artistic serigraphy in layers on alluminium support, calendered tubular structure in alluminium, iron base, 1-to-3 proportion respect of Trajan’s Column. The symbols of external surface interprets neolitic pre-Dacian culture and spirituality. Outer surface is inspired of Roman world, the intense chromatic evokes the force of life in color. All interact with written texts in Roman lapidary style. Whit symbols, icons and texts I create a new story in a free and new perspective. Exposed to Mercati di Traiano-Museo dei Fori Imperiali, Rome, 28/11/2017-20/11/2018 and Museo Nazionale Romano-Terme di Diocleziano 20/11/2023-20/04/2024. Catalogues published Palombi Editori and Palombi Editori. Exhibition design Arch. Pietro Bagli Pennacchiotti. Photo Sebastiano Luciano. Promoted by Musei in Comune di Roma Capitale, Capitoline Cultural Heritage Superintendency of Rome, Councilorship for Cultural Growth of City Rome, Zètema Cultura project, with the cultural support of Embassy of Romania in Italy, Embassy of Romania to the Holy See, IRCRU Venice, Romanian Academy Rome. Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCkpyB6eXPw&feature=share IMPORTANT: Dimensions: 1250cm, Diameter 140cm. Is composed of modules and will be shipped in a wooden box measuring 250x200x200cm. In my Saatchi Portfolio there are several positions of this same work.

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Born in Lugoj, Romania. Established in Italy since 1987, where he lives and works. Awards received: in 1987 she was awarded a National Prize of Romanian Visual Artists Union for drawing, engraving and lithography. 1996 won a silver plate for work SUPERSLIDE 29at the 23° Sulmona Prize International Contemporary Art Competition, Diocesan Civic Museum, Sulmona (AQ), Abruzzo; 2012 she received the Art Critics’ Special Mention for her pictorial installation Metaphor: Central Group Y + Central Detail + Lower Detail at the Lìmen International Art Competition held at the Enrico Gagliardi Museum in Vibo Valentia, Calabria; 2013 her project COWMAN of the World - was selected through competition and has participated at the inaugural Opening of the New Science Museum MUSE in Trento, designed by Archistar Renzo Piano. He participated with two digital installations and drawing performance. June 22, 2018 he was awarded the "Excellency Award" of the Romanian Government "100 for Centenary" (10 for Italy), held at Romanian Academy in Rome, for his artistic work made in Italy. Conferred by MPRP. 2020 - She was awarded the Special Prize for the Foreign Artist at 47°Sulmona Prize International Contemporary Art for the work PICTA MANENT 2020. Diocesan Civic Museum Sulmona (Aquila), Abruzzo. Works present in museums collection: MAGI ‘900 Museum of Italian Generations of '900, Pieve di Cento (Bologna); Scuderie Aldobrandini City Museum, Frascati (Rome); Museum of Contemporary Art - Art Gallery of Teora (Avellino); National Library of San Nilo Abbey, Grottaferrata (Roma); Permanent Collection Center for Research, Documentation and Promotion Constantin Brancusi, Targu Jiu (Romania); Museum of the House of Dante Alighieri Foundation, Torre de’ Passeri (Abruzzo); Civic Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiaravalle Centrale (Catanzaro); Museum of History and Contemporary Art in Blaj Romania; Permanent Collection of the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice; "Blue Planet" Sculpture Museum by Alba Gonzales (Fregene). Private collection in Italy, SUA.

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