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Artist Statement:
Archetypal Expressionism
Archetypal Expressionism lies
between the two major
paradigms of contemporary art,
the figurative and the
abstract. It represents the
spiritual quest for common
cultural roots beyond the
tragic accidents of history.
It is a fascinating approach
to rediscovering that Tahiti
of our collective memory
through the shapes and the
exotic figures of our inner
lives. It is art suspended
between the real and the
imaginary, and it needs rigor
and mystery, arithmetic and
lyricism, simplicity and
paradox.
My work concept as a visual
artist, archetypal
expressionism, though could be
considered a new one, it
describes an immemorial
artistic reality. Archetypal
expressionism is indeed a new
concept and yet it echoes an
ancient tradition in making
art, also specific to cultures
of a remote past.
Strong colors, deformities and
a special sensitivity to
imagine the world are not
exclusively the prerogatives
of modern expressionists.
The archetype is a universal
symbol, just as untranslatable
as music. The archetypal
fields are real, a mystery of
the universe. The archetypal
cosmos is atemporal; it only
contains a virtual germ of
time. A well-known specialist
in Mircea Eliade's work, Prof.
dr. Sabina Fînaru, asserts
that the famous Romanian
historian of ...
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Artist Galleries:
Galerie de 4 coins, Lapalisse,
France
Marseille Project Gallery,
Marseille, France
Galeria 7 pietre, Piatra
Neamt, Romania
The Museum of Visual Arts,
Galati, Romania...
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Artist Reviews:
Text and Time - Constantin
Severin
Symbols, lines, surfaces,
spaces. All the humanity is
made of misterious symbols.
And Constantin Severin uses
them to write a new language
of art. A language made of
concepts, feelings, colours
and emotions.
Constantin travels in the
past, in the acient times and
dimensions, to ...
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Collections:
The Museum of History and Art,
Complex Muzeal Bucovina,
Suceava, Romania
Galerie de 4 coins, Lapalisse,
France
The Museum of Art, Piatra
Neamt, Romania
Mihai Sandu Capra, Bucharest,
Romania
Vasile Tudor, Suceava, Romania
Rada Zamfir, Suceava, Romania
Vasile Ilie, Suceava, Romania
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Commissions:
The Museum of History and Art,
Complex Muzeal Bucovina,
Suceava, Romania
Galerie de 4 coins, Lapalisse,
France
The Museum of Art, Piatra
Neamt, Romania
Mihai Sandu Capra, Bucharest,
Romania
Vasile Tudor, Suceava, Romania
Rada Zamfir, Suceava, Romania
Vasile Ilie, Suceava, Romania
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Exhibitions for Constantin Severin:
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Solo exhibitions:
''Text and Time'', September 2004, The Bucovina Museum Complex, Suceava, Romania, (included on the EuroNews Agenda of major European cultural events);
''The Signs of the Time'', November 2004, The NahVision Art Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany(also included on the EuroNews Agenda).
''Time's Metaphors'', February 2006, The Velea (TransArt) Art Gallery in Bacau, Romania.
''Matrioshka Identities'', February 2007, Art Gallery of the ''Stephen the Great'' University, Suceava, Romania.
''The Alchemical City'', January 2009, Lascar Vorel Art Gallery of the Romanian Artists Union, Piatra Neamt, Romania (promoted by EuroNews TV channel, included on the Rendez-vous magazine with the major art events in Europe).
Group exhibitions:
International Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland, April 2005;
National Museum of History, Chisinau, Republic of Moldavia, June 2006;
Stanzwerk Bochum, Germany, June-July 2007, organized by European Artists Association;
Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery, New York, January-February 2009, together with other 50 international artists, group show organized by Mirca Art Group, curator Carla Goldberg, NY.
International Art Center ''George Apostu'', Bacau, Romania, group show ''The Wineyard and the Wine'', February 2009, organized by the museum/art gallery of art brut Galerie de 4 coins, France, curated by the founder of the museum, the French artist Luis Marcel.
Marseille Project Gallery, Marseille, France, ''Spring Projection'' project, March 2009, together with other 34 international artists.
UNESCO Ambassador of eurointegration through art. Founder of Archetypal Expressionism Group on ARTMESH (43 international emergent artists). Thirty two times in TOP 50 (5 times TOP 10) at the online art competition SHOWDOWN, organized by SAATCHI GALLERY. Freedom & Art book Project-Mirca Art Group-Skogas, Sweden (An Art Happening), 2008.
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