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Artist Statement -



an international award-winning artist based in New York and Montreal, European Museums Acquisitions
NY art fair solo exhibit Pier 92 Spring 2019, Manhattan Notable artists who have benefited from AENY Andy Warhol, Peter Max, Robert Rauschenberg Washington Post

My gallery in Montreal Located in the heart of the Montreal Museum district, The Contemporary Arts Gallery features major Canadian and international painters and sculptors such as Jean-Paul Riopelle, Karel Appel, Victor Vasarely, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, P.E. Borduas, Pierre Alechinsky, Jean McEwen and many others.

Artist Exhibitions



ART GALLERIES and ART FEST selection


2020 PRIMAL ego at Venice Contemporary Art Show, Italy selected at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space

2019 Summer Exhibition of Leading Canadian and International Artists beside Henry Saxe, Montreal QC and Toronto ON httpswww.facebook.comgaleriedartscontemporains

2019 Art Fair New York, Spring 2019, solo exhibit Notable artists who have benefited from AENY Andy Warhol, Peter Max, Robert Rauschenberg

2018-19 Elite Art Gallery in Bucharest, Romania under the auspices of Elite Art Club UNESCO - EACU

2018 Painting show and opening at Stanley Borenstein Gallery CAG for 40 years art dealer in Paris Montreal, Complexe Canal Lachine, Montreal

2017 Primary Raw - artist invited at Van der Plas Gallery in New York, NY

2017 Celebration at Contemporary Arts Gallery, Crescent St. Montreal, Canada

2015- 2018 Night of Museums is a successful European event organized at international level UNESCO, Europe

2010 – 2011 Business Trade Art for corporate buyers, Philadelphia, USA

2010 Nuit Blanche The Great Night Fresco, NBTN, Montreal

2009 Contemporary Arts Gallery, Montreal. Crescent St., Abstract Expression

2008 The FIMA Festival International, Art Fair Montreal

2007 HBD 3.0 Technological Arts performance at S.A.T. Montreal and Atelier en Empirisme Radical UdM Brian Massumi

2006 HTA ReConfigurations, Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

2006 Paper exhibition at Multiple Impressions Gallery, SOHO, New York city, NY

2006 Maison de la Culture de Côtes-des-Neiges, Paysages Ephémères Canadian Heritage, Conseil des Arts de Montréal CAM

2004 Solo exhibition at Contemporary Arts Gallery, Crescent St., Montreal

2003 Tanz von Salome, Isshorst Gallery, GERMANY

2003 «Once upon a time in Eastern Europe prostitution», at the Hirschl Theater founded 1817, Arad, Transylvania, Eastern Europe

2001 Performing and show concept at international level Lyon MC, Cluj, Romania

2000 Art Fest, Königsfelder Festspiel, Königsfelden, SWITZERLAND

2000 WFC 8th edition – awarded contest and exhibition, Gifu-Nagoya, JAPAN

2000 Atelier Studio, Recovered Symbols, Timisoara and Budapest, HUNGARY

1999 Monumental Painting public collection, the Arad State Philharmonic Jubilee, Eastern Europe

1997 Candid Mythica Dance Theater, Timisoara dance performance and visual arts show – International Center for Contemporary Arts in Vienna, AUSTRIA.


MUSEUMS OF ART, PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


2009 National Museum of Art. Museum of Art Arad, Europe. Acquisition by art historian Peter Hugel PhD, La Pieta, monumental painting on canvas

1999 -2009 Arad State Philharmonic founded in 1893, Transylvania, Romania

2003 The Administrative Palace of Arad founded in 1872, City Hall collection, Transylvania, Romania

2002 Groupe Société Générale BRD bank, public collection 2002, Europe

1998 Art collection of Eleonora Costescu and Vasile Varga, Complex Muzeal Arad, Transylvania, Romania.

1997 National Opera of Timisoara founded in 1871.


AWARDS Honored


2000 Honorable Mention, Japan

2003 Award of Excellence, USR Romania

2005 Winner and Personality ArtCulture Lauréat et Personnalité, University of Montreal, Canada

2006 Scholarship merit – research field, University of Montreal,

2006 Paysages Ephémères, Finalist of the contest 2007 , under auspices Conseil des Arts de Montréal CAM

2010 Title of Excellence in Visual Arts Merit for outstanding professional and artistic creation, Arad City Hall 2010, Ro.



ARTIST RESIDENCY

Austria, Hungary Timisoara, 2000 – Timisoara recently named European Capital of Culture 2021, Romania.


PUBLICATIONS, art magazines selection


2019 New York Art Fair, Pier 90, Spring 2019, show catalog, page 293

2018 Moniteur culturel , Centre de Culture CCJA, May 2018, Night of the European Museums. E.U.

2010 « Le phénomène actuel de …virtualization du corps humain », art technologique, Author 175p, Saarbrücken, Germany

2010 Parcours art et art de vivre art magazine, Montréal

2008 « 167 mondes à découvrir 167 worlds to discover » The Conseil des Arts de Montréal Arts Council of Montreal CAM, Canadian Heritage, DAM, Government of Quebec

2006 ReConfigurations Arts, Humanities, and Technology in the Urban Environment, Humanities and Technology Association, Lower Manhattan, New York

2006 Towards a New Aesthetics Technology, Intensity, Heterogeneity, , Prague, Czech Republic, issue 7000 words, page 115

2005 Dire art and Culture magazine, cover page and interview, UdMontreal

2004 Le Devoir Montreal, Canada

1998 Florian Liber’s painting or to be or not to be “modern” by Eleonora Costescu art critic AICA, UNESCO.
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Artist Publications



ARCA, critique d'art Eleonora Costescu, numéros 10-11-12, 1998, (ISSN 1221-5104)
"We have purposely extended the topic we started with: the painting of Florian Liber who has something to say in fine arts today, in order to identify in him a new attitude towards artistic creation." (page 43)

LE DEVOIR, de Julie Carpentier, le 30 avril 2004, Montréal
"Nous avons un rendez-vous avec un analyste de la psychologie sociale concernant la vie métropolitaine actuelle. "

DIRE – art et culture, volume 14, numéro 3, Montréal, printemps 2005
Lauréat et Personnalité entrevue de Émilie Guérette-Loisier

Pre-Apocalypse now (Romania Literara, numéro 32), de Pavel Susara – critique d'art, Roumanie, 2005
"Artiste peintre établi à Montréal, Florian Liber est une présence très alerte dans l'espace occidental, nord-américain et européen; il s'intéresse également aux langages d'agencement entre l'environnement urbain et les nouvelles technologies. "

TOWARDS A NEW AESTHETICS, introduction de Luis Armand, volume 16, numéro 32, Europe-Prague, Amsterdam, 2006
"All contributions point out that the position of aesthetics in contemporary discourses on art and technology has been problematized to the utmost. It is difficult to imagine today an aesthetics capable of reasserting itself over the territory it once claimed in the realm of “primary, or ‘unconditioned,’ aesthetic experience,” thus freeing itself from philosophical strategies and “narrative explanations” capable merely of constructing an intellectualized, “secondary” aesthetic experience."(pp. 1-13)
"On demande au public d'opter pour un trajet dans l'environnement immersif urbain […] dans l'environnement monde mettant en discussion l'aspect formel du processus de communication de l'expérience artistique vers le public. "(page 130)

167 MONDES À DÉCOUVRIR, juin 2008, page 71, Conseil des Arts de Montréal

Montréal MIRROR, volume 24 numéro 34, du 12 février au 18 février 2009, page 45

ARTS WEEK - ABSTRACT EXPRESSION: Florian Liber's latest collection of abstract paintings, The Archaic Body, opens at the Contemporary Arts Gallery (2140, Crescent St., Montreal) tonight, Thursday, Feb. 12 from 5:30-9 p.m.

Parcours art et art de vivre– article en cours de publication dans le domaine de l'art contemporain montréalais, Montréal, 2009/2010
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Artist Collections



Numerous private, corporate, museum, gallery and government collections detailed information coming soon.

Artist Favorites



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