Ion Mandrescu
He was born 1954 in Mihoveni, Suceava, Romania and studied at Institute of Fine Arts “Nicolae Grigorescu”, Bucharest.
His bronze sculpture series “Man, Time, Space” is a deep meditation on the human condition. The character trapped in the spiral and undergoing immutable external determination, suggesting social martyrdom and Christian sacrifice, foreshadows a major artistic moment of our days, proposed by the artist with maximum moral rigor. The language of his work is neither declamatory nor redundant and reaches beyond any extrinsic rhetoric. It represents a superior understanding of the world and a melancholic reconciliation with destiny. ⒸAD
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2021 National Museum of History, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2021 Museum complex Bristrita, Romania
2014 Man, Time, Space, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Vienna, Austria
2003 Retrospective, National Museum Cotroceni, Romania
2003 Orizon Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1995 Romanian Cultural Center, Paris, France
1993 Wiesbaden, Germany
1993 Romanian Cultural Center, Paris, France
1992 Museum of Collections, Braila, Romania
1991 Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1988 Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1984, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2023 WOHNEN&INTERIEUR, FIVE PLUS AR GALLERY, Messe Wien, Vienna, Austria
2022 ART VIENNA, art fair, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Orangerie, Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria
2021 ART INNSBRUCK, art fair, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Olympiaworld, Innsbruck, Austria
2001 Radio Center, Bucharest, Romania
2004 Good morning Balcani, National Museum Cotroceni, Bucharest, Romania
1995 Rotary Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1994 Ludwig, National Museum of Romanian Art, Bucharest, Romania
1992 Mondială de la Sevilla, Spain
1991 The Possibility of the surface, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1991 The Possibility of the surface, Munich and Weibstadt, Germany
1991 Beijing, China
1990 Vienna, Austria
1990 Filocalia, Etaj 3-4 Gallery, National Theater Bucharest, Romania
1988 Berlin, Germany
1988 Varsovia, Poland
1987 Sculptura Mică, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1986 Sala Dalles, Bucharest, Romania
1985 Budapest, Hungary
1985 Sofia, Bulgaria
1983 Place, fact and metaphor, France
1983 Orizont Gallery
MONUMENTAL WORKS
2008 Man, Time, Space, Bucharest (historical center)
2004 Barbu Ştirbei (portrait), Călăraşi,
1984-1987 4 monumental statues, Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest, Romania
AWARDS
1980 Prize of the magazine “Flacara”, Romania
1988 Prize of the Union of Visual Artists, Romania
1980 Frederick Storck Scholarship
1979 Prize of the magazine “Amphitheater”, Romania
SYMPOSIUMS
2005 Ipoteşti, Botosani, Romania
2004 Agafton, Botosani, Romania
1990 International symposium of Arangelovance with the monumental work “Meditation”
1982-1985 Magura Buzaului, Romania
1981-1983 Saliste, Sibiu, Romania
1980 Lazarea
OVER 200 WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Romania among others BCR collection, Hilton collection
France
London, Great Britain
Berlin, Germany
Rome, Venice, Italy
Israel
USA, New York
Greece, Atana
Serbia
Austria, Vienna
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND IN PUBLIC SPACES
Man, Time, Space, National Museum Brukental, Sibiu, Romania
Ecvestra, Museum in Buzau, Romania
Coloana, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
Man, Time, Space, Romanian Bank Institute, street Calea Victoriei, Bucharest, Romania
Man, Time, Space, BCR Private Banking, street B-dul Aviatorilor 92
Mihai Eminescu, Caracas, Venezuela
Mihai Eminescu, Chisinau, Moldova
Gheorghe Stirbey, Administrative Center, Calarasi, Romania
