Dumitru Gorzo

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Dumitru Gorzo
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Gorzo in 2007
Born (1975-03-21) 21 March 1975 (age 46)
Ieud, Maramures, Romania
EducationBucharest National University of Arts
Known forContemporary Art
Public Art

Dumitru Gorzo (born 1975) is a Romanian contemporary artist. Born in Ieud, Romania, he currently lives and works in Bucharest and Brooklyn, New York.[1]

Education[]

Gorzo received an MFA in Visual Arts from the Bucharest National University of Arts in 1999, then studied with painter Florin Mitroi.[2] He was one of the founding members of 'Rostopasca', an influential contemporary artistic movement in Romania. Gorzo's methods of working have ranged from to performance artist to studio painter and sculptor.[3]

Works & Controversy[]

Gorzo first began to gain renown for his overtly sexual and political subject matter in 2003, when his guerrilla public installation Cocoons in Bucharest drew attention from a Romanian television station claiming the work had been done by Satanists.[4] Gorzo had glued 350 small plaster, larvae-like figurines to the walls of buildings in the center of the Romanian capital, inciting public debate among passersby about their broader meaning.[5]

His works tend to feature a satiric attitude toward societal issues, which has made him a controversial figure among the more conservative critics and the Romanian public.[6] His works are varied in theme and medium, ranging from hand-hewn wooden reliefs with a Romanian folkloric aesthetic, to sculpture of found objects and paintings with a bold contemporary, conceptual, neo-pop sensibility.[7]

In 2005, Gorzo had his leg broken in an assault following the opening of the provocatively titled show, Mister President is a Sexual Object, at the HT003 gallery in Bucharest, allegedly by unofficial secret-service agents. The show in question depicted the faces of all the Romanian presidents silkscreened onto pillows and impaled on a tree with wooden penises for branches.[8]

In 2006 he showed a major, one-person exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania) in Bucharest, which then traveled to the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu. In 2010 he participated in Badly Happy, a group exhibition at the Marina Abramović Institute.[9]

Gorzo is currently represented by Slag Gallery in Brooklyn.[10]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/07/artseen/umitru-gorzo-in-the-corner-of-my-eye
  3. ^ http://www.secondforest.eu/gorzo.html
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ http://www.modernism.ro/2012/08/22/dumitru-gorzo-3/
  6. ^ http://www.wikiart.org/en/dumitru-gorzo
  7. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^ http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/07/artseen/umitru-gorzo-in-the-corner-of-my-eye
  9. ^ http://www.artslant.com/sf/events/show/135182-badly-happy-pain-pleasure-and-panic-in-recent-romanian-art
  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 2 November 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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