Artworks by Gheorghe Zaharia

www.celesteprize.com/zaharia

Gheorghe Zaharia

Artist

Joined 1 year ago, 267 visits

Born in Branesti in Romania (1952)
Lives and works in Bucharest in Romania

Selected for 2010:
Intl Sculpt Exhib “Family Unity”, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Intl Art Exhib, Athens, Greece
Intl Art Exhib, Samothrace, Greece
Intl Art Exhib MCA-Azur, Cannes, France
Main Exhibitions Attended:
2009-2010 Winter Exhib, Shootzoo Palace, Buch, Romania
2009 Shelary Biennale, Apollo Gallery, Buch, Romania
Small Sculpt Natl Exhib, Apollo Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Intl Fine Arts & Design Symposium - IMECE, Eskisehir, Turkey
Urania's Gardens Exhib, Rouvas, Crete, Greece
2008 Art Exhib, Apollo Gallery, Buch, Romania
Small Sculpt Exhib, Art Shelter Gallery, Buch, Romania
Small Sculpt Exhib, Apollo Gallery, Buch, Romania
Sculptors’ Drawing Exhib, Art Shelter Gallery, Buch, Romania
The 13-th Asian Art Biennale, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The 6-th Art Biennale, Buzau, Romania
Olympic Fine Arts Exhib, Beijing, China
Third Intl Art Biennale, Beijing, China
Art Exhib, Parliament House, Buch, Romania
2007 Sculpt Exhib, Galati, Romania
Natl Exhib of Small Sculpt, Buch, Romania
2006 Sculpt Exhib, Polytechnic Inst Hall, Buch, Romania
The Young Artists Gala “The Spring”, Buch, Romania – III-rd prize
2005 Sculpt Exhib, Buch, Romania
2004 Paint&Sculpt Exhib, Buch, Romania

SACRED PRECINCTS

Sculpture

Bronze
Wood
50 x 35 x 105 cm
2009

Notes on artwork: The composition has a circular form, based on a structure with a dynamical equilibrium, stable and well-anchored to the ground. It seems to have symmetry, but it doesn't.
One of the sides leads to the Earth’s depths; the other one seems to point to the heights, so we can say it makes the connection of the Almighty to the terrestrial world and its depths.
The sacred place, transferred from the celestial world to the Earth, where magical-religious rituals are being performed, expresses the relationship between transcendent and cosmic forces, as well as the transfer of almightiness, reserved only to the celestial gods, to men.
This expresses the spirituality of art, which wanders in all the existential zones, underlining the primordial unity and the dynamic of all connections in a whole.

Prize Installation / Sculpture (Celeste Prize 2010)

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SHRINE

Sculpture

Bronze
Marble
62 x 90 x 19 cm
2009

Notes on artwork: The shrine, dedicated to arts, is a structure where all artists’ sacrifices are offered in order to create works of art.
Sacrifice is a religious ritual in which an object or a life are given as offering to the divinity, in order to establish the desired relationship between humanity and the sacred order. This is well- known in the oldest forms of worship in all cultures.
Self-sacrifice is present also in the creation myths.
Artist gave himself totally to create art work.
Thus, every art work becomes a shrine by itself, in front of which the artist seems to perform rituals expressing the idea of art spirituality.

Prize Installation / Sculpture (Celeste Prize 2010)

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STAR

Sculpture

Bronze
Wood
65 x 35 x 65 cm
2008

Notes on artwork: The STAR is the shield of the Earth and a guiding symbol of humanity from the earliest days.

New York Expectations 2010

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GATES - PERSPECTIVE

Sculpture

Other
Wood
39 x 45 x 100 cm
2008

Notes on artwork: Passing through the purification gates, from the profane to sacred zone, is the moment we can enjoy, reaching the perfection that perhaps, we have never dreamed before.

Berlin Expectations 2010

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