Constantin Pacea
Constantin Pacea was born in 1957 in Bucharest and is the son of famous painter Ion Pacea and artist Lucreția Hagi. He lives and works in Paris, Bucharest and Altea (Spain). Ion Pacea inspired his son to become an artist and, while growing up, Constantin painted in his father’s studio reproductions after paintings created by European masters such as Degas or Vermeer, but also made copies of Egyptian and Greek sculptures. This preoccupation will follow him all his life. He graduated the Monumental Art Section of the ”Nicolae Grigorescu” Fine Art Institute, Bucharest in 1981, during the Communist regime. After being invited to exhibit his works in Germany, he left Romania in 1983, lived in Germany and Sweden, but in 1985 he established his studio in Paris.
Pacea never specifically plans his artworks, he allows his intuition to be a big part of the creative process, where the impredictable, the hazard and uncertainty play a central role. In his oil paintings and drawings, the artist approaches both figurative and abstract art in portraiture, landscapes and also concepts such as dreams, solitude and meditation. ⒸAD
Video exhibition Summer Breeze: https://www.facebook.com/FivePlusArtGallery/videos/3257079590979281
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2014 Constantin Pacea – a retrospective, the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Romania
2014 La Isleta, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Vienna, Austria
2014 Art Safari, Art Fair, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2012 Jardins Intérieurs, with Dorin Cretu and Radu Tuian, at Galerie Maket, Paris, France
2008 Agents, Nordenhake Gallery, group exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Vistas desde La Olla de Altea, The Schlotter Foundation, Altea, Spain
1998 personal exhibition, E. Scholtter Foundation, Altea, Spain
1994 One-man-show – Constantin Pacea, International Fair Lineart, Ionel Petrov ’Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
1993 group exhibition, Galeria Riol, Madrid, Spain
1992 exhibition with sculptor Jan Van Depol, Gijzenrooi Geldrop Gallery, Holland
1991 participates in S.A.G.A. – Grand Palais, Paris, France
1990 Le Livre dans tous ses états, group exhibition, Galerie Caroline Corre Paris and Galeria Huguette Bultel, Strasbourg, France
1989 participates in the “1st Biennial of the artist’s book”, Uzerche, France
1989 Magician of my Earth, Caroline Corre Gallery, Paris, France
1989 Book delusions, Boulogne-Billancourt Cultural Center, France
1988 Signes, schémas, images, group exhibition, Acropolis, Nice, France
1988 Books of Artists, House of book, image and sound, Villeurbanne, France
1987 Contemplative Energy, with Florica Pacea, Janine Lorcet Gallery, Paris, France
1987 Le Livre dans tous ses états, Bibliothèque Louis Aragon – Choisy-Le-Roy, France
1987 Artist’s Book, Caroline Corre Gallery, Paris, France
1987 exhibition at Figuration Critique, Grand Palais-Paris, France
1987 group exhibition with Florica Pacea, Gijzenrooi Gallery Geldrop, Netherlands
1987 International Artfair, Gallery 44, Chicago, USA
1986 work from 1980-86, personal exhibition, Gallery 44 and Kaarst-Düsseldorf City Hall, Germany
1984 organizes a series of exhibitions, Wallner Gallery and Roda Traden in Malmö, Sweden
1984 organizes a series of exhibitions, Angel Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1984 group exhibition with Florica Pacea, Raphael Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
1984 group exhibition with Florica Pacea, Rautenberg Gallery, Aachen, Germany
1983 4th Drawing Competition, Barcelona, Spain
1981 personal exhibition, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Romania
1981 International Exhibition of Drawings Lis81, group exhibition, National Gallery of Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal
1981 International Exhibition of Graphic Art Arteder 82, Museum of Modern Art, Bilbao, Spain
1981 2th Triennial of Drawing, Nuremberg, Germany
1981 Cantonal Museum, group exhibition, Lausanne, Switzerland
