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Artist Statement:
I have always been attracted
by whiteness, like a sound of
silence, like a void
anticipating the beginning. It
may have been the sound of the
Earth in its white
glacier-ages, equally
associated with the diurnal
life, the light, the divine,
the purity and the void.
It gives me ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
PERSONAL Exhibitions (the most
recent)
- 2006 "The Lunar Gardens" at
The Romanian Peasant's Museum
of Bucharest, as part of The
Terra-Incognita Art Project
(details on the website in the
Links page)- taking the lead
in the local ceramic art
community;
- 1988 - Galateea Gallery
Bucharest and 1998 - Simeza
Gallery ...
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Artist Galleries:
OB ART Gallery, Bucharest,
downtown
SIMEZA Gallery , Bucharest,
downtown
GOLD ART Gallery, Bucharest,
Hilton
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Artist Reviews:
HORTUS SELENUS (The Lunar
Gardens)
By Aurelia Mocanu, art critic
published in “Ziarul de
Duminica”, Sep 29, 2006
It is said about those that
sow, plant or graft with
success that they have a
“green thumb”.
The ceramist Gherghina Costea
has, then, the “white thumb”
because she rises from china
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Collections:
Private collections in Canada,
Japan, Israel, Germany,
Switzerland...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Gherghina Costea Biography:
| Biographical information for Gherghina Costea can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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51
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
Christian-Orthodox |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
reading, antique art collecting |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Ceramics Handbuilt
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Minimalism - (1960 - 1975)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Bird in Space
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Nature and the botanical world, wildlife and exotic vegetation, marine creatures |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Inner drive to express myself and share. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
I was born in 1955 in Pietrosani, Prahova county, Romania.
Following the Art and Music junior and high School in Ploiesti city I continued to study art at the Bucharest Academy of Arts and graduated the Decorative Arts with a BA in 1978. As other artists of my generation I was forced by the communist regime to get a job in the fine ceramics industry, working as a designer in a number of factories producing mainly tableware and decorative pieces; the positive side of it was that industry offered me a chance for improving my technical skills and get the necessary experience to manage my own studio later on.
I exhibited in all the major local art events starting with 1980 and participated in my first International Biennial of Ceramics in Vallauris, France in 1982.
I was accepted as a full member of the Romanian Professional Artists Association in 1990 after the fall of the communist regime in Romania in 1989. I quit my job and started my own studio in Bucharest in 1992 investing all the family savings into purchasing a 200 l electric kiln.
Four solo shows scheduled but not necessarily planned at five years interval, have become clear milestones in my evolution as an artist; of these four, I consider that two would be the most significant for my career as an artist: 1988 solo show(hosted by Galateea Gallery of Bucharest) and the one in 1998 at the Simeza Gallery also in Bucharest. The latter marked a clear evolution in the way of approaching my favorite working media - the porcelain: building larger pieces in a modular concept alluding to the “natural growth”; using multiple firing cycles to obtain “structured surfaces”; expanding into “mixed media” installations.
I was granted the National Award for the Arts of the Fire in 1990 as a recognition of my contribution in the field.
Certainly the latest solo show - at the Romanian Peasant's Museum of Bucharest in 2006 - allowed me to emmerged as the initiator of a multiple side art event - the 'Terra Incognita ' project, which succeeded to generate an enhanced exposure and a revived interest for the local decorative arts in general and for ceramics in particular. More details on the project and the 'Lunar Gardens' solo show - on my website in the Links page: http://www.terra-incognita.ro |
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