Works on paper
2005

works on canvas, oil paintings

selected paintings from a series of 300 works. oil on canvas

Octavian

Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark since 1990.

I was born in Romania ‘65 and belong to, so called at that time,’ the sacrificed generation’. During time of the cold war and the dictatorial epoch of East- Europe; my way to survive spiritually and to save myself like human was to express my self through visual arts. My first conceptual art was as 5 years old: I modelled a baby-cow from the cheese my mother tortured me to eat for breakfast. Later on, as revenge, I drew on the mirror my portrait as an old witch with my mother’s lipstick. Thus I was sent to an art- school convinced that I belonged there. Never the less there was a mistake again; I could not cope with the socialist-realism and I find my self in the year of my diploma on the streets together with people fighting against dictatorship. My first exhibition and the first exhibition in the streets of Bucharest I made together with the Danish artist E.A. Frandsen. Those waere the weapons I chose. The exhibition was taken by a modern art gallery in Lyon and I have been invited to exhibit in Gallery Specta in Denmark, later to study at the Royal Danish Art Academy in Copenhagen. Well the Romanians they expelled me anyway, so my self-exile started. I now live and work in Copenhagen.

Education:

1990-93 Royal Art Academy of Copenhagen, Denmark

1986-90 art academy, Bucharest, Romania

1989 Met Erik A. Frandsen during the revolution. Work together.

Selected Shows:

1990 first show at Gallery SPECTA, Denmark

1992 Co-founder of Cultural Space Katharsis, Copenhagen.
Selected solo shows

1990 Galleri Specta, Århus

1991 ”Interviews”.Gallery Specta, Aarhus.

1993 Danube Art Museum , Romania

1993 ”Reflection – self exile”, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen

1995 ”We”, Humanitas House, Bucharest, Romania.

1996 ”Exile”, Gallery Specta, Copenhagen (ArtForum, DK)

1997 Gallery Caminul Arte, Bucharest

1997 ”Good Night, Darling”, Gallery Ploiesti, Romania.

1998 ”Series of Portraits”, Gallery Frantz Pedersen, Horsens. (Represented at ArtForum, DK)

2001 ”10 Years Travel ”, Kunsthallen Brænderigården, Viborg
Selected Groupshows

1989 Group TATEC, Bucharest, Romania (met Erik A. Frandsen)

1990 Group TATEC, Lyon, Frankrig.

1992 RUN, RUN MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION, Copenhagen.

1999 ”What's behind that curtain”, Katharsis.

2000 ”a research of identity”, Palazzo Correr, Venice.

2000 ”TIME ”, Il Baraccano, Bologna.

2000 ”TIME “, Frederiks Bastion, Copenhagen.

2002 BIAM, Gallery Andre Emile, Vancouver

2002 BIAM, Tribe Gallery, New York

2004 FUSION, Galleri Kleefeld, Copenhagen, Dk

2005 FUSION STOP Sczecin, Poland

2006 The SoundThief, Gallery HT003 Bucharest.

2006 Fragile Beauty, PianoLiving Gallery, Lecce, Italy

2006 Im going Glocal! Danish cultural center, Kecskemet, Hungary

2006 Im Going Glocal! KOKEM, Miercurea Ciuc, Romania

2006 Im Going Glocal! Gallery HT003, Bucharest, Romania

2006 Im Going Glocal! LoadingGallery, Bucharest, Romania

Represented in private collections: Denmark, Romania, Germany, Sweden, Israel, France, USA.

Participated the 9th and the 10th International Workshop for Visual Artists, Remisen, Brande, Denmark

Works bought by Aarhus Art-Museum and Aarhus Hospital.

2005 Represented in the book “Kunst Giver Liv” by the Danish art-collector Ib Hessov.

Are currently working as curator and participant of the itinerant two year project "I'm Going Glocal!".The project will start in Hungary 2006. Romania 2006. End Copenhagen 2007.please see more infomation at http://www.glocalproject.blogspot.com/