Metamorphoses: A Solo Sculpture Exhibition by Vasile Stefanoiu

Motto:

“In each block of marble there is a statue

and it is the sculptor's job to discover it.”

Michelangelo

My Credo is: art must have a message. Otherwise, the sculpture risks becoming an Aphrodite whose temple collapses because no one brings her any more offerings.

Therefore, it is a total pleasure to create without putting in it the will to succeed, only to have fun, to be understood, to reach out to others to share my love of art, the one that shaped me personality since childhood.

The materials in which I sculpt are diverse: stone, marble, wood and stainless steel.

I am one of those sculptors who insist on making art in the traditional way, but without rejecting contemporary trends.

The contemporaneity of my sculpture consists in the possibility of saying new messages with established techniques, moving from form to content, becoming an ideational art in which the concept prevails.

In some of my sculptures I take the narrative context of legends from the civilization of ancient Greece and place them in different contexts, suggesting movement in metamorphosis, to create completely new meanings and evoke completely different emotions, a way of seeing again in modern times.

Technique:

The sculpture, before detaching it from its raw form, I think about it in my mind for a long time in solitude and after I mentally finalize it and sketch drawings I carve it by direct carving.

I work by direct carving, where every chisel blow is final, you can no longer put the skipped pieces back, the attention is continuous so as not to make mistakes. Hence the challenge.

Stone and marble is the most beautiful materials, nature itself and speaks to me.