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Artist Exhibitions:
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 (...
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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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Artist Statement for Constantin Severin
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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 religions and writer iamgined the sacred archetype as an archetype of origin but also as a transcendental “chronotope,” manifesting a bi-unitary, mobile, self-generative and reversible character. The Eliadian archetype is repeatable in the absolute, and it re-innovates ontological meaning.
The best Romanian artists of all times, Constantin Brancusi, George Apostu, Ion Tuculescu, Paul Neagu and Ovidiu Maitec belong to archetypal expressionism, in my opinion, but also Paul Klee and Xul Solar. I intend with my own concept to tell to the art community that from remote times we have THE THIRD PARADIGM(better to say, the first!) , the archetypal art, because most of the contemporary art experts in the world assert there are only two major paradigms, the figurative and the abstract. The archetypes have a secret power, because they have been used during thousands of years by a large amount of populations and they are now a part of our hidden inner life.That's why they have a special emotional impact on every human being.
Every major work of art begins with an archetype and ends in music, the most ineffable manifestation of time.
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