Ana Maria Negara
She was born in 1984 in Brăila, Romania. In 2008 she graduated The ”George Enescu” University of Arts, Iași, Romania, The Faculty of Visual Arts and Design (Department of Sculpture). In 2010 she received her MA in Visual Arts, specialization Sculpture. She also has a Phd in Visual Arts (Sculpture) at the same university. In 2012 Ana Maria Negară became the artistic director of the International Symposium ”Gorj Fest” in Târgu Jiu, Romania and between 2009 and 2013 she was the organizer of the International Art Symposium ”Retezat” (for the sculpture department). The artists participated in many national and international exhibitions and won a Debut Award in 2008 and then a Jury Award in 2010 offered by The Romanian Union of Visual Artists, Iași Branch.
Conceptually, the artist investigates natural geometry through sculptures inspired by the calcareous structures of sea shells or ocean snails turning them into poetic metaphors. Although made of marble, they suggest weightlessness and delicacy. ⒸAD
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PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2013 Inside, Grand Hotel Traian Art Gallery, Iasi, Romania
2009 Artistic interferences, Iasi, Romania
2008 Artistic interferences, Iasi, Romania
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Anatomy of Memory, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Vienna, Austria
2015 Minorities history, Iasi, Romania
2015 Recent art generations, Royal Foundation Galleries
2015 Reflexivity, Bucharest, Romania
2014 Erotica, Bucharest, Romania
2014 Drawings by Sculptors, Romanian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv , Israel
2014 Intimacy, Royal Foundation Galleries, Iaşi, Romania
2013 AUSBLICKE”, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2012 Erotica, Bucharest, Romania
2011 Erotic, Bucharest, Romania
2011 Gorj Fest, International Exhibition of Visual Arts, Ruse, Bulgaria
AWARDS
2015 Sculpture Award, at Annual Salon of U.A.P. (Romanian Union of Plastic Artists), Romania
2015 Prize for sculpture, at the exhibition „Atelier 35”, Iaşi, Romania
2010 Jury Award, at “Annual Salon of U.A.P. (Romanian Union of Plastic Artists, Romania
2008 Debut Award, at Annual Salon of the UAP (Romanian Union of Plastic Artists)”, Iaşi Branch, Romania
2007 Third Prize – Sculpture – commemorative exhibition “Mihai Codreanu”, Iasi, Romania
SYMPOSIUMS, CAMPS AND FESTIVALS (SELECTED)
2021 Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2021 International Sculpture Symposium, Tomesti, Romania
2019 Red Sea International Sculpture Symposium, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2016 Ostraka Art Festival , Egypt
2016 6th International Komurcuoglu Stone Sculpture Colony, Denizli, Turkey
2016 21 Aswan International Sculpture Symposium, Egypt
2015 VI-th Panevezys stone sculpture symposium , Lihtuania
2015 International Sculpture Symposium ”NICĂPETRE”, Braila, Romania
2015 International Sculpture Camp “Acasă la Brâncuşi” “At Brâncuşi’s Home” Tîrgu Jiu, Romania
2014 International Sculpture Symposium Caransebeș-Caransebeș, România
2013 International Sculpture Camp “At Brâncuşi’s Home”, Tîrgu Jiu, Romania
2013 Sculpture camp “Together with George Apostu at his home” Stănişeşti, Bacău, Romania
2013 International Festival of Education – FIE, Iaşi, Romania
2012 Symposium “George Apostu” Art Summer School – Stănişeşti, Romania
2012 International Art Symposium Retezat (coordinator of the sculpture department), Romania
2012 Director of the International Visual Arts Festival camp “Gorj Fest”, sculpture department
2011 International Visual Arts Festival “Gorj Fest”Tg. Jiu, Romania
2010 International Visual Arts Festival “Gorj Fest”, Tg. Jiu Romania
2009-2013 International Art Symposium “Portraits of the Mountains” – Retezat (coordinator of sculpture department), Romania
2009 Gorj Fest, International Visual Arts camp, Tg Jiu, Romania
