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Marian Petre (1963, Dragănești, Olt) - The dream of innocence

Marian Petre (1963, Dragănești, Olt) The dream of innocence cast bronze and stainless steel; 46 x 31.3 x 13.5 cm Marian Petre graduated in 1987 from the "Nicolae Grigorescu" Art Institute in Bucharest, Universita of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department, and since 1996 he is member of the Union of Visual Artists from Romania. During his career he participate at numerous personal and collective exhibitions both in the country and abroad, and in 2002 obtains the third prize at Art Salon of Bucharest. A sculptor both anchored in tradition and attracted by the suggestions and (post) modern visual language, Marian Petre works applied, consistently, putting into practice his vision of the man and his condition. The artist carves inspired and frustrated wood, less often stone, because his favorite material remains the molded, beaten, hot-worked metal or the metal in combination with the wood. The reason for the double, in the hypostasis of a couple, of perpetual androgynous returns in its almost obsessive compositions. What distinguishes its plastic language from that of the confreres of the generation is the permanent questioning of the relations between full and empty. Metal meshes make up suggestive anatomies, sometimes superimposed in vertically elongated shapes. There is in Marian Petre's art a man-core and a man-net, in continuous and suggestive dialogue with the viewer. A fine portraitist, the sculptor is also the author of busts of personalities whose destiny he is attracted to. (Luiza Barcan, 2014)