Alexandru Rădvan
Works
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Alexandru RădvanHommage to Judas XXXI, 2008acrylic on unprimed canvas105 x 155.5 cm
41 3/8 x 61 1/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridional IV, 2013tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridional II, 2013tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridional III, 2013tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridional VIII, 2013tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridional V, 2014tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridional I, 2014tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridional VI, 2014tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridional VII, 2014tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanHercules after Carracci (triptych), 2014acrylic on canvas100 x 210 cm
39 3/8 x 82 5/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanSweating Hercules, 2014acrylic on canvas70 x 50 cm
27 1/2 x 19 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanIsland for Umberto (triptych), 2014acrylic on canvas150 x 210 cm
59 1/8 x 82 5/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanImpression (triptych), 2014acrylic on canvas200 x 140 cm
78 3/4 x 55 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanPoetic (diptych), 2014acrylic on canvas100 x 140 cm
39 3/8 x 55 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanThought (diptych), 2014acrylic on canvas200 x 70 cm
78 3/4 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanHercules after Carracci II, 2014tempera on paper70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanHercules after Carracci, 2014acrylic on canvas200 x 375 cm
78 3/4 x 147 5/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanProkofiev, 2014acrylic on canvas200 x 285 cm
78 3/4 x 112 1/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanPygmalion - Sculptor Studio II, 2015acrylic, acrylic marker, collage on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanPygmalion - Sculptor Studio I, 2015acrylic, acrylic marker, collage on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanPygmalion-The Artist and the Model, 2015acrylic on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanStrange Woman I, 2015acrylic on canvas60 x 45 cm
23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanStrange Women II, 2015acrylic on canvas pad60 x 45 cm
23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanStrange Women III, 2015acrylic on canvas pad60 x 45 cm
23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanStrange Woman VIII, 2015acrylic on canvas60 x 45 cm
23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanStrange Woman IV, 2015acrylic on canvas60 x 45 cm
23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanStrange Woman VII, 2015acrylic on canvas60 x 45 cm
23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanStrange Woman VI, 2015acrylic on canvas60 x 45 cm
23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanStrange Woman V, 2015acrylic on canvas60 x 45 cm
23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanLast Garden, 2015-2016galvanized metal sheet360 x 490 x 370 cm
141 3/4 x 192 7/8 x 145 5/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanPygmalion - Galateea, 2016acrylic, acrylic marker, collage on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanPygmalion, 2016acrylic, acrylic marker, collage on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanAugust, 2016acrylic on cardboard in wooden box103 x 129 x 30 cm
40 1/2 x 50 3/4 x 11 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanLe Sacre du Printemps, 2016acrylic, collage on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanLast Garden, 2016acrylic, collage on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanWomen with Idol I, 2016acrylic, collage on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanWomen with Idol II, 2016acrylic, collage on cardboard70 x 100 cm
27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanMeridian, 2016mixed technique: acrylic, acrylic marker on cardboard in wooden box90 x 122 x 29.5 cm
35 3/8 x 48 1/8 x 11 5/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanThe Rite of Spring 2, 2016acrylic on canvas210 x 354 cm
82 5/8 x 139 3/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanThe Rite of Spring, 2016acrylic on canvas210 x 340 cm
82 5/8 x 133 7/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanSculptor Studio with the Endless Column, 2016acrylic on canvas210 x 374 cm
82 5/8 x 147 1/4 in -
Alexandru Rădvan...almost!, 2017acrylic on cardboard100 x 70 cm
39 3/8 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanApollo the Sad, Daphne the Poor, 2017acrylic on canvas206 x 140 cm
81 1/8 x 55 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanThe God, The Nymph, 2017acrylic on canvas210 x 140 cm
82 5/8 x 55 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanSculptor in the Studio - Pygmalion, 2017acrylic on canvas230 x 210 cm
90 1/2 x 82 5/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanEros Cruel God, 2018acrylic on canvas210 x 120 cm
82 5/8 x 47 1/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanUntouchable Love, 2018acrylic on canvas210 x 120 cm
82 5/8 x 47 1/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanD'apres Ovide (After Ovid) - Apollo and Daphne, 2018metal sheet242 x 150 x 167 cm
95 1/4 x 59 1/8 x 65 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanApollo Touches Daphne, 2018acrylic on canvas210 x 120 cm
82 5/8 x 47 1/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanDaphne...almost..., 2018acrylic on canvas210 x 120 cm
82 5/8 x 47 1/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanSleeping Centaur, 2019polystyrene, polyurea resin, spray126 x 400 x 400 cm
49 5/8 x 157 1/2 x 157 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanArchaic Hercules Skinning a Rabbit, 2019acrylic on canvas135 x 140 cm
53 1/8 x 55 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanHercules in the Swamp, 2019acrylic on canvas135 x 135 cm
53 1/8 x 53 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanHercules in Vineyard, 2019acrylic on canvas135 x 150 cm
53 1/8 x 59 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanHercules' Victory Dance, 2019picto-relief: acrylic, canvas, wadding, polypropylene223 x 175 x 50 cm
87 3/4 x 68 7/8 x 19 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanHercules and the Erymanthian Boar, 2019polystyrene, acrylic resin, oakum, hemp120 x 45 x 70 cm
47 1/4 x 17 3/4 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanMother of All Things, 2019polystyrene, polyurea resin, spray308 x 130 x 125 cm
121 1/4 x 51 1/8 x 49 1/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanMay We Live in Interesting Times, 2019acrylic on canvas210 x 230 cm
82 5/8 x 90 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanPrometheus, 2019polystyrene, polyurea resin, spray280 x 140 x 300 cm
110 1/4 x 55 1/8 x 118 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanRemembering a Great Love, 2019acrylic on canvas210 x 240 cm
82 5/8 x 94 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanSelf-portrait as a Super Ancient Goddess, 2019acrylic, acrylic marker on canvas250 x 210 cm
98 3/8 x 82 5/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanSelf-portrait in the Beginning of Time, 2019acrylic on canvas226 x 87.5 cm
89 x 34 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanSelf-portrait Thinking of the Summers I Have Left, 2019acrylic on canvas70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanSelf-portrait in the Beginning of History, 2019acrylic on canvas226 x 87.5 cm
89 x 34 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanThe Death of Nessus, 2019-2020textile picto-relief237 x 480 x 10 cm
93 1/4 x 189 x 4 in -
Alexandru RădvanBreakdown, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanIdols camouflaged by the tide, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanMan feeling uncertain, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanA quiet day, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanPandemic, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanLockdown, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanMan in an empty italian city, 2020acrylic on canvas70 x 70 cm
27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in -
Alexandru RădvanCerberus 2, 2021Acrylic on canvas140 x 148 cm
55 1/8 x 58 1/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanWomen at the Black Sea, 2022Acrylic on canvas50 x 50 cm
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanA Peaceful Place, 2022Acrylic on canvas50 x 50 cm
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in -
Alexandru RădvanLe chef d'ouvre inconnu 2, 2022Acrylic on canvas196 x 135 cm
77 1/8 x 53 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanLe chef d'ouvre inconnu, 2022Acrylic on canvas185.5 x 135 cm
73 x 53 1/8 in -
Alexandru RădvanNéa kinonikón sistima, 2005acrylic on canvas200 x 200 cm
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in
Overview
Women at the Black Sea, 2022
Alexandru Rădvan is one of the intriguing artists from the Eastern European space. Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1977, he starts his artistic career at the end of the 1990s, after he finished his studies at the University of Art. The University of Art from Bucharest gives the modern and contemporary art such significant names as Constantin Brâncuşi, Victor Brauner, Andrei Cădere, Paul Neagu, Peter Jacobi, Florin Mitroi. During University years, Rădvan follows Florin Mitroi's painting classes, an artist with a very particular way of drawing and painting.
At the end of his studies, Rădvan became Mitroi's assistant at the painting department and, currently, he is a lecturer at the University of Art from Bucharest.
Exhibitions
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ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: When Nothing Happens
March 21 - April 30, 2023 Anaid Art Gallery Bucharest'I am seduced by the idea of creating something beautiful, a peaceful atmosphere, with beautiful things, but made a little rough, brutal, ungentle, with relatively simple, primitive, almost sordid gestures...Read more -
ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: MYTHICAL FLESH
April 21 - June 26, 2021 Anaid Art Gallery BerlinThe solo show 'Mythical Flesh' signed by Alexandru Rădvan presents the artist's creation of the last years and offers an exhaustive body of work produced across many media, from drawing on paper and various textiles, to oversized paintings on canvas, and large two to three-dimensional sculptures made from metal and/or applied resin.Read more -
ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: THE YEAR THE WORLD STOPPED
December 15, 2020 - January 15, 2021 Anaid Art Gallery BucharestThe new series of paintings signed by Alexandru Rădvan was born during the total isolation of 2020. A creator of a strongly coloured painting, a lover of the striking and scorching sun, Rădvan feels locked in his own house, which he begins to rediscover and reinterpret. In the works in this series, Alexandru Rădvan emphasizes the idea that feeling free does not mean being able to leave, but being able to stay. Isolation means your forced encounter with yourself, many hours of silence and total quiet, the desire to escape from yourself.Read more -
ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: ISLAND FOR UMBERTO
May 4 - 30, 2020 Anaid Art Gallery Berlin"Island for Umberto" has the literary source in the novel "Island of the Day Before" ("L'isola del giorno prima") written by Umberto Eco. Alexandru Rădvan envisions an island for his favorite writer.Read more -
RADU RODIDEAL: DISCLOSURE OF ROMANCE
November 21 - December 18, 2019 Anaid Art Gallery Berlin"Disclosure of Romance" by Radu Rodideal is intended to be a careful examination of the contemporary relationships through the lens of the individual troubled by love, passion, desire, betrayal, deception, duplicity, secrecy, revenge, and possessiveness. .Read more -
ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: DARK ROOM
September 11, 2019 Anaid Art Gallery Berlin"Dark Room" exhibition is a selection of erotic drawings signed by Alexandru Rădvan shown for the first time to the public.Read more -
ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: THE OLDEST DAY
ARCUB - Bucharest Cultural Center May 14 - June 23, 2019"The Oldest Day" is about the beginnings of mankind, about those days when goddesses, centaurs, titans populated the earth causing jealousy, fights, desires, sacrifices.Read more -
ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: PARTENER FOR THE ABYSS
Bazis Contemporary Cluj May 7 - June 15, 2019In the exhibition "Partner for the Abyss" sexuality is used as a tool to give a milestone about the abyss, to create order in disorder.Read more -
ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: UNTOUCHABLE LOVE
April 26 - May 26, 2018 Anaid Art Gallery BerlinUntouchable Love is about the three emotions a generic and timeless Apollo experiences: pride, desire and loss. Apollo is beginning to desire more and more what he cannot have, and although he is aware that there is no hope, he is becoming more and more insistent.Read more -
RĂDVAN | VLAD | KOCHUBEY: EYES WIDE SHUT
August 10 - 19, 2017 Anaid Art Gallery BerlinThe exhibition project Eyes Wide Shut has as background the movie with the same title directed by Stanley Kubrick in 1999. Eyes Wide Shut is about what is hidden in the human minds, about what can only be perceived mentally.Read more -
ALEXANDRU RĂDVAN: TORRID GEOMETRY
September 13 - November 10, 2016 Anaid Art Gallery BerlinRădvan's "Torrid Geometry" cycle is experimental in terms of both form and technique becoming a turning point in his oeuvre. While maintaining the powerful colors and the big format canvases familiar from his previous paintings, in his recent works he has replaced the flat collages with shapes made of cardboards.Read more
Publications
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For Tomorrow
Investigating the new materials in the works of Alexandru Rădvan Ruxandra Demetrescu, Adrian Guță, Diana Dochia, Roxana Rădvan, 2014 Softcover, 148 pages
Publisher: Archetype Publications
ISBN: 1909492116
Dimensions: 20.8 w x0.81 d x29.84 h cm Read more -
Mythical Flesh
Alexandru RĂDVAN Mark Gisbourne, Diana Dochia, 2021 Hardcover, 152 pages
Publisher: Kerber Verlag
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0654-9
Dimensions: 24.13 x 2.54 x 29.85 cm Read more
Bibliography
Women at the Black Sea, 2022
2018: Exhibition catalogue "Untouchable Love" by Alexandru Rădvan, text by Diana Dochia, edited by Anaid Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014: Catalogue "For Tomorrow. Inverstigating new materials in the works of Alexandru Rădvan", ed. Ruxandra Demetrescu, Diana Dochia and Roxana Rădvan, published by Archetype Publications Ltd., London, UK
2012: Exhibition catalogue "Ulysses" by Alexandru Rădvan, text by Diana Dochia, edited by Új Kriterion Galéria , Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
2011: Exhibition catalogue "Christ" by Alexandru Rădvan, text by Diana Dochia, edited by Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2008: Catalogue "7 Parallel 7", MOYA - Museum of Young Art, texts by Mihai Oroveanu and Diana Dochia, Vienna, Austria
2008: Exhibition catalogue "Homage to Judas and the Crusaders", texts by Diana Dochia and Alexandru Rădvan Westfälischen Landesmuseum für Industriekultur Henrichshütte Hattingen (Bochum), Germany
2007: Exhibition catalogue "Memories of Constantine" by Alexandru Rădvan, edited by Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2005: Exhibition catalogue "Soma" by Alexandru Rădvan, text by Aurelia Mocanu, edited by Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania