From Sanzaiane


GRECU Ioan, Chisinau, Romania

2017 Ungheni Sculpture Camp, 6th edition. Travertine

"Little Cluj" Park, Decebal Street

The connoisseur of the sculptor's work will see in this work the continuation of the Capriccioso series. A variant of the cycle in question already exists in Ungheni (see "Pampered" from 2002). In this case, although the material was particularly difficult to model, the author created an expressive, warm, sensual, voluptuous form, of high aesthetic quality. The work seems to be an archetype of the body, not an individual figure.


De Sânzâiene suggests an inner movement: the form seems to twist slightly, like a danced gesture. It is not static, even if it is massive. The whimsy is in: the carefully dosed asymmetry (one shoulder/volume rises higher), the sudden change of direction in the upper part, the contrast between the smooth surfaces and the more “broken” areas. It is as if the sculptor had “written” an impulse in the stone. This transition from raw to polished is, in itself, a metaphor for sculpture: the taming of the stone until it becomes “skin”.


The upper part, the element at the top (like a large petal, a fan or an opening) breaks the strictly bodily reading and introduces the poetic register: it can be read as a flower, but it is not. It is hair - a visual capriccio, an element that completes the movement and transforms the body into the composition.

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