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Text and Time - Constantin Severin
Symbols, lines, surfaces, spaces. All the humanity is made of misterious symbols. And Constantin Severin uses them to write a new language of art. A language made of concepts, feelings, colours and emotions.
Constantin travels in the past, in the acient times and dimensions, to return in our present and tell about the possible futures. About the next lines of expression, to describe the present, drawing the future with past symbols. His own symbols.
Luca Curci, http://www.lucacurci.com/art/index.html
Constantin Severin is the Romanian creator and theorist of a new concept on the contemporary art scene, Archetypal Expressionism. A member of the Writers' Union of Romania, he is a journalist, writer and art critic, and has published nearly 30 art reviews and articles, as well as several books of poetry. In addition to numerous awards and honors, he is also a UNESCO Ambassador of euro-integration through art.
Max Sindell
Author Liaison & Community Coordinator, Red Room Omnimedia Corporation
www.redroom.com Where the writers are.
''Constantin Severin is a theorist and practitioner of archetypal expressionism. His paintings restore the primitive, ingenuous and vitalist echoes of archaic cultural traditions (such as the Cucuteni culture and Scandinavian art) with an exceptional sense of exoticism and bookish decorativeness. Through this orientation, as well as through a lyricism and intellectual tension, Severin follows in the footsteps of illustrious Romanian artists such as Brancusi, Apostu, Tuculescu, Cotos and Maitec. The archetypal figures introduced into his paintings seem to be as haphazard and inexplicable as life itself; they appear on the canvas as quotations of polychrome and monochrome images. The organization of these canvasses by way of the repetition and variation of images and strong colors, as well as monochromatic technique, reminds us of musical rather than literary practice. These technical elements imitate a rhythm of direct perception, whereas the texts that accompany the visual images introduce an ineffable non-figurative figuration. This rhythm creates the impression of a plenitude, of an unusual accomplishment, of a movement and a sense of resurrection, which obey the geometrical laws of plane forms and loci, not the laws of space mimetically conventionalized by the rules of perspective. Line, circle and spiral are the elements through which the painter creates and gives rhythm to his world, which embodies light itself, beyond all forms, be they manifest or discrete, corpuscular or undulating (...)''.(Sabina FINARU, ''Crai Nou'', Suceava, March 2006)
In literary and visual expression, but perhaps most
notably in his clear-sighted theory of our present condition,Constantin Severin is breaking new ground. The concept of "Post-Literature" (which he has articulated in an article accessible at http://www.inst.at/trans/14Nr/severin14.htm)reveals him as one of the most original of contemporary thinkers concerning the nature of creative activity and the
self-transformation that it is currently undergoing.
One would be missing something important not to know of what Severin (situated of all places in Suceava, Romania)is up to. Take a look at the article, then search the web for
his reductively symbolic paintings, which are on the verge of forging a new post-modern vocabulary from modernist precedent and nativist tradition. As western Europe declines,
esthetically, morally, politically, something apparently is happening in Eastern Europe, and Severin is a part of it.
Madison MORRISON
(...)Beide Orientierungsmomente die farbintensive Volkskunst und die archetypischen praehistorischen Umrissfiguren, ''Urbilder'' oder ''Urformen'' menschlicher Darstellung, haben fur Konstantin auch etwas mit kulureller Identitaet zu tun, wobei auch die klassische Moderne bekannter Weise Anregungen in der Abstraktions-und Ausdrucksfaehigkeit kykladischer und vor allem expressiver afrikanischer Kunst fand und sich Konstantin sich damit auch in diese Tradition stellt.
Was den Bildern Konstantins zu eigen ist, ist die expressive Farbintensitaet, die ihre Wurzel in der rumaenischen Volkskunst besitzt.Dabei betreibt Konstantin auch eine klar definierte, bildaufbauende und ausdrucksstarke Falbfeld-Malerei.(...)
Dr. Brigitte MORITZ
Photo(left) by Sabina Burla, 2007
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ARCHETYPAL EXPRESSIONISM
by Constantin Severin
Archetypal Expressionism lies between the two major paradigms of contemporary art, the figurative and the abstract. It represents the spiritual quest for common cultural roots beyond the tragic accidents of history. It is a fascinating approach to rediscovering that Tahiti of our collective memory through the shapes and the exotic figures of our inner lives. It is art suspended between the real and the imaginary, and it needs rigor and mystery, arithmetic and lyricism, simplicity and paradox.
My work concept as a visual artist, archetypal expressionism, though could be considered a new one, it describes an immemorial artistic reality. Archetypal expressionism is indeed a new concept and yet it echoes an ancient tradition in making art, also specific to cultures of a remote past.
Strong colors, deformities and a special sensitivity to imagine the world are not exclusively the prerogatives of modern expressionists.
The archetype is a universal symbol, just as untranslatable as music. The archetypal fields are real, a mystery of the universe. The archetypal cosmos is atemporal; it only contains a virtual germ of time. A well-known specialist in Mircea Eliade's work, Prof. dr. Sabina Fînaru, asserts that the famous Romanian historian of religions and writer iamgined the sacred archetype as an archetype of origin but also as a transcendental “chronotope,” manifesting a bi-unitary, mobile, self-generative and reversible character. The Eliadian archetype is repeatable in the absolute, and it re-innovates ontological meaning.
The best Romanian artists of all times, Constantin Brancusi, George Apostu, Ion Tuculescu, Paul Neagu and Ovidiu Maitec belong to archetypal expressionism, in my opinion, but also Paul Klee and Xul Solar. I intend with my own concept to tell to the art community that from remote times we have THE THIRD PARADIGM(better to say, the first!) , the archetypal art, because most of the contemporary art experts in the world assert there are only two major paradigms, the figurative and the abstract. The archetypes have a secret power, because they have been used during thousands of years by a large amount of populations and they are now a part of our hidden inner life.That's why they have a special emotional impact on every human being.
Every major work of art begins with an archetype and ends in music, the most ineffable manifestation of time.
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Text and Time 1
2004 mixed technique 60x80 |
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Work of ARCHETYPAL EXPRESSIONISM, archetypes of Cucuteni culture, Romania. Fragments from my first articles dedicated to archetypal expressionism(2000, 2001).
This work has a special biography, it was shown by a EuroNews clip in 2004 and was put on the site of their cultural Agenda.
TOP 50 Saatchi's SHOWDOWN |
Text and Time 7
2004 oil on canvas 50x70cm |
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work of archetypal expressionism, archetypes of the Romanian pre-historic cultures, especially Hamangia.
TOP 50 Saatchi's SHOWDOWN.
SOLD |
Text and Time 6
2004 oil on canvas 60x70 |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, archetypes belonging to Cucuteni culture. Top 50 Saatchi's SHOWDOWN. |
Text and Time 4
2004 oil on canvas 51x71 |
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work of archetypal expressionism, archetypes belonging to different European pre-historical cultures.
TOP 50 Saatchi's SHOWDOWN. |
Text and Time 49
2006 oil on canvas 70x100 |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, unifying a big archetype from Gumelnita culture (Romania) with the archetypes of the Finnish shamans from Lapland.
Three times in TOP 50 Saatchi's SHOWDOWN. |
Text and Time 39
2005 oil on canvas 73X120 |
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Work of ARCHETYPAL EXPRESSIONISM, archetypes and letters belonging to pre-historical European cultures. Top 50 Saatchi's SHOWDOWN. |
Text and Time 60(The Alchemical New York)
2007 oil on canvas 70x100 cm |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, archetypes/letters belonging to pre-historical civilization from Central Europe and a challenging cultural archetype, Leonardo's masterpiece ''Young Lady with Ermine'', which could become this century more famous than ''Mona Lisa'', due to its amazing actual look! Top 50 Saatchi's Showdown. |
Text and Time 47
2006 oil on canvas 60x80 cm |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, pre-Columbian archetypes.
SOLD |
Text and Time 52
2006 oil on canvas 50x70 cm |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, archetypes inspired by the Romanian traditional world. |
Text and Time 9
2004 oil on canvas 50x60 cm |
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Venus of Cucuteni, a prehistorical culture from Romania, coupled with the central European writing from the same period |
Text and Time 61(The Archetypal New York)
2007 oil on canvas 70x100 cm |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, archetypes/letters belonging to Central European pre-historical culture and a famous cultural archetype, 'The Arnolfini Portrait', by Jan van Eyck. Top 1o Saatchi's Showdown, it was shown by a EuroNews clip in 2009 and was put on the site of their cultural agenda, Rendez-vous. |
Text and Time 15
2004 oil on canvas 52x76 cm |
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Archetypes/letters from the lost writing of Atlantis. |
Text and Time 26
2005 oil on canvas |
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Gumelnita culture archetype and Atlantis sacred writing. |
Text and Time 27
2005 oil on canvas 50x60 cm |
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Pre-historical archetypes from Italy. |
Text and Time 35
2005 oil on canvas 60x73 cm |
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Pre-historical archetypes from Romania. |
Selfportrait
2008 installation |
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The installation ''Selfportrait'', a good description of my destiny. Like Blake, Michaux, Sabato and other major intelectuals I was fascinated since my early youth by both literature and art.
When I imagined this installation I thought that two elements could be very fitted to describe my dual spiritual adventure: my typewriter (I used it untill 20 years ago to write some of my best poems, including ''Wall and Neutrino'') and my copy after Vermeer's masterpiece, ''The Art of Painting''.
That's why even my first novel, ''Esto's Lover'', is dedicated to a Ianus bifrons character, the famous Argentine writer, Ernesto Sabato. I want to express him my whole gratitude for accepting this project. I'm very impressed that at his age, 97 years old, he is waiting with great interest the Spanish version of this amazing story.
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Text and Time 67 (Wine's Angel)
2009 oil on canvas 80x100 cm |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, an old Romanian wine press is the major archetype, but also a cultural one, Guido Reni's artwork ''Bachus'' and the most recent global archetype, president Obama drinking a glass of a famous Romanian wine, Cotnari... Work for the group show ''The vineyard and the wine'', organized in February 2009 by the museum of art brut ''Galerie de 4 coins'', France, at ''George Apostu'' International Art Center, Bacau, Romania. |
Text and Time 66
2009 oil on canvas 60x80 cm |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, with a major cultural archetype included, Vermeer's ''The Art of Painting''. |
Text and Time 65
2008 oil on canvas 50x60 cm |
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Work of archetypal expressionism, archetypes belonging to the pre-historical Central European cultures, and a cultural archetype, Arnolfini Family. |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Constantin Severin was born in Baia de Arama, Romania.
He is a visual artist, member of the exclusive International Artists Group ’’3rd Paradigm’’(together with the artists Adrian Bayreuther, Alberto D’Assumpcao, Olga Dmytrenko and Izabella Pavlushko) and of Boston Cyberarts Network. His art is represented by Opera Gallery, Budapest (http://www.operagallery.org). He is also a writer, member of the Romanian Writers' Union (represented by Bodtker Yuniku Agency, Oslo, www.yuniku.no). Free art studies.
From 1991 to 2004 he worked as a journalist for different Romanian publications, but also for BBC and Free Europe radio. Currently Constantin Severin works at the County's Library of Bucovina ''I.G. Sbiera'',Suceava. Fellow-worker of the Italian art magazine ''It's Liquid'' (www.itsliquid.com). He has published over 800 articles, essays and interviews on culture, art theory and criticism, as well as on other issues of Romanian and international interest. He is the theorist and promoter of archetypal expressionism and of post -literature, in essays published on the site of the well known Saatchi Gallery, London. The first concept concerns contemporary art, the latter the philosophy of culture.
Activity as a visual artist
Solo exhibitions:
''Text and Time'', September 2004, The Bucovina Museum Complex, Suceava, Romania, (promoted by the EuroNews cultural Agenda);
''The Signs of the Time'', November 2004, The NahVision Art Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany (also promoted by the EuroNews Agenda).
''Time's Metaphors'', February 2006, The Velea (TransArt) Art Gallery in Bacau, Romania.
''Matrioshka Identities'', February 2007, Art Gallery of the ''Stephen the Great'' University, Suceava, Romania.
''The Alchemical City'', January 2009, Lascar Vorel Art Gallery of the Romanian Artists Union, Piatra Neamt, Romania (promoted by EuroNews TV channel, Rendez-vous cultural magazine).
''My Archetypal Suceava City'', April 2009, Dalype Gallery, Oslo, Norway.
''Archetypal Expressionism'', online show, April 2009, Design Gallery, University of Massachussets, USA, curated by the artist Lily Yang.
''Constantin Severin&the Archetypal Expressionism (Text and Time)'', November 2009, The Museum of Visual Art, Galati, Romania, solo show curated by Valentina Iancu and Dan Basarab Nanu (director, Museum of Visual Art).
Group exhibitions, international art projects:
International Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland, April 2005.
National Museum of History, Chisinau, Republic of Moldavia, June 2006.
Stanzwerk Bochum, Germany, June-July 2007, art symposium organized by European Artists Association.
Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery, New York, January-February 2009, together with other 50 international artists, group show organized by Mirca Art Group, curator Carla Goldberg, NY.
International Art Center ''George Apostu'', Bacau, Romania, group show ''The Wineyard and the Wine'', February 2009, organized by the museum/art gallery of art brut Galerie de 4 coins, France, curated by the founder of the museum, the French artist Luis Marcel.
Marseille Project Gallery, Marseille, France, ''Spring Projection'' project, March 2009, together with other 34 international artists.
TransCultural Exchange, Boston, Little Gallery New York, The International Exquisite Corps Project by Mary Corey March, April 2009, together with other 18 international artists from 12 countries.
Design Gallery, University of Massachussets, Boston Cyberarts Festival, April 2009, DSL Cyber MOCA in Second Life, ''TransForm''international project, curated by Lily&Honglei.
Opera Gallery, Budapest, May 2009, group exhibition by artists from the 27 member states of the EU.
UNESCO Ambassador of eurointegration through art. Founder of Archetypal Expressionism Group on ARTMESH (42 international artists). Freedom & Art book Project-Mirca Art Group-Skogas, Sweden (An Art Happening), 2008. Talk-show ''Constantin Severin&The Archetypal Expressionism'', October 2009, TV PLUS, Suceava, Romania. Artworks in public (The Museum of Art and History Suceava, Romania, The Museum of Art Piatra Neamt, Romania) and private collections from Romania, Germany, USA, Finland, Norway, Ukraine, Italy, Great Britain, etc.
Activity as a writer
Works:
'The Sunday of Things Real'' (poetry), Junimea Publishing House, Iasi, Romania,
1984;
''Wall and Neutrino'' (poetry, bilingual edition-Romanian/English, translated by Liviu
Martinescu), Vlasie Publishing House, Pitesti, Romania, 1994; the poem was included
as such in the anthology of ''Contemporary Romanian Poetry'' by Marin
Mincu, Pontica Publishing House, 2000; the poem won The Bucovina Cultural
Foundation Awards;
''Wall and Neutrino'', Minerva Publishing House, London, 1997; translation by Liviu
Martinescu;
''Improvisations on armonic key'' (poetry), Axa Publishing House, Botosani, Romania,
1998;
''The Axolotl'' (poetry), Masina de Scris Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998; the first
renga (renku) book in the Romanian literature, bilingual edition-Romanian/
English, translation by Liviu Martinescu; awarded by the Bucovina Cultural Foundation,
1999;
''The Alchemical City'' (selected poems), Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
2002; awarded by the Bucovina Cultural Foundation, 2003;
''The Sacred Empire. Monasteries and churches in Northern Moldavia'', Paralela 45
Publishing House, Pitesti, Romania, 2003.
Awards
The poetry award of the Daily Yomiuri newspaper, Japan,1996. The award for cultural journalism given by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, 1998. The award for cultural journalism given by the City Hall and the County Council of Suceava, 2001.
Press File 2004, after the debut solo show(fragments)
“Keeping true to the idiosyncratic attribute of his astrological sign, that of restless seekers of truth and creators of new ideas, the friend Constantin contemplated during many sleepless nights a new concept in plastic art that would justly recognize the ancestral symbols, cultural archetypes specific to the sites of Cucuteni, Gumelnita and Hamangia that, he felt, had been insufficiently appreciated. He named this concept “archetypal expressionism”
(Tiberiu Cosovan – “Constantin Severin – Un revolutionar cu revelatii”, Monitorul de Suceava, 10.08.2004, issue 186)
“The poet and publicist Constantin Severin is experiencing a new spiritual challenge: his début in painting. Four years ago, in his art chronicles dedicated to George Cotos and Ovidiu Maitec, he introduced a new concept in contemporary art, the archetypal expressionism. In brief, his view of this movement combines the strong colors of the German expressionism with the ancient archetypes (universal symbols) of sites such as Cucuteni, Hamangia and Gumelnita.”
(Camelia Berbinschi – “Primele vernisaje de expresionism arhetipal, la Suceava si Stuttgart,” Cronica Sucevei, 5.08.2004, issue 3)
“The archetypal expressionism, a new concept in contemporary art introduced by Constantin Severin, represents a synthesis between the ancient archetypes (in this case those from the sites of Cucuteni, Hamangia and Gumelnita) and the strong, lively colors of the German expressionism. In “Text si Timp”, Constantin Severin introduces to the viewers “an archetypal universe where there is no time, only a virtual germ of time”. One of the most representative poets of the 80s, Constantin Severin creates paintings which bear the mark of the mental and employ universal symbols. His plastic adventure transcends the “postmodern evasions” and becomes a means of self-awareness, of acquiring world knowledge through knowledge of the self. (…) Severin’s art can be regarded as the nostalgia of rediscovering the primordial shapes. (…).”
(Ovidiu Vintila – “Constantin Severin sau melancolia regasirii formelor originare,” Cronica Sucevei, 15.09.2004, issue 36)
“Constantin Severin’s original approach to plastic expression attracted the interest of the EuroNews TV channel. (…) It is a privilege for the city of Suceava as well as an opportunity to gain international recognition through a cultural event. Moreover, by courtesy of the artist, the archetypal expressionism receives a well-deserved recognition in contemporary art, an acknowledgement that Constantin Severin can take great pride in (…).”
(Tiberiu Cosovan – “For three days EuroNews will include in their agenda coverage of Constantin Severin’s first painting exhibition in Suceava,” Monitorul de Suceava, 15.09.2004”)
“EuroNews announced their coverage between the 17th and the 19th of September of a Romanian painter from Suceava.”
(Sergiu Rusu – “Artist sucevean expus la EuroNews”, Evenimentul Zilei, 16.09.2004, issue 3856)
“After having dedicated a substantial part of his life to the world of books, Constantin Severin takes up a new challenge and calls for the strong colors of the German expressionism to bring homage to the primordial archetypes of the Cucuteni, Hamangia and Gumelnita sites. It is this new approach that affirms his declared condition of artist, founder, theoretician and practitioner of archetypal expressionism.”
(Doina Cernica – “Constantin Severin, asemenea lui Marin Sorescu,” Crai Nou, 16.09.2004, issue 3751)
“Constantin Severin sets the ground for the archetypal expressionism, a new avant-garde movement, well-received by the European public. The exhibition, whose title – “Text si Timp”– arrests the viewer’s attention, was introduced to the public in Suceava by the painter Ilie Boca (winner of the Plastic Artists’ Union 2003 Award), the art critic Valentin Ciuca (member of the International Art Critics Association) and Emil Ursu, Director of the Directorate of Culture and Cults (…).”
(Isabel Bedreaga – ““Text si timp”, pe simezele sucevene,”, Cronica Sucevei, 18.09.2004, issue 38)
“Upon private viewing on Friday, September 17th, 2004, Constantin Severin’s painting exhibition, open at the History Museum in Suceava, enjoyed a large first-class audience (of which the plastic artists outnumbered the writers). The exhibition had both a national resound – owing to the art critic Valentin Ciuca who mentioned it in Alex Stefanescu’s TV show (which offers its viewers one ‘cubic meter’ of culture) and an international impact – by being on the EuroNews cultural agenda(…).”
(Doina Cernica – “Un pictor si o pictura altfel”, Crai Nou, 21.09.2004, issue 3754)
“I feel compelled to emphasize that, by putting his name on the gallery panels, the artist unveils another of his creative sides and at the same time diligently endeavors to and succeeds in introducing a new artistic concept that he named ‘archetypal expressionism’ (being already received by the European public as a result of the interest shown by Wolfgang Spindler from EuroNews who replied to the artist’s Internet messages that he would include shots from the exhibition in the agenda of major European cultural events) (…).”
(Tiberiu Cosovan – “Amprentele culturale ale unor civilizatii ancestrale,” Monitorul de Suceava, 25.09.2004, issue 226)
“Constantin Severin’s culturality makes up, to a great extent, for the lack of a guiding master and training hours in a painting workshop. (…) His declared cultural appetite allows him to plunge into the past in search of a modern approach. The spring of remote history nourishes the thirsty vessels of his imagination, and the archeologist digs deep into the cultural memory from where he extracts sacred symbols, materialized in ritual and household objects, in elements specific to rituals of a remote pre-Christian past (…). The painter Severin embraces these ancient symbols and adapts them to new graphic-chromatic contexts. He examines different materials and gives them a durable appearance (…).”
(Valentin Ciuca – “Prezentul arhaitatii,” Crai Nou, 2.10.2004, issue 3763
“The plastic artist, recently welcome into the artistic world, sets up a trend that is still open to enthusiasts sharing the same interests as the pioneer himself in the archetypal expressionism, a movement that lies between the figure realism and the abstract art.”
(C.Coroiu – “Pictor sucevean – pe agenda culturala a EuroNews,” Adevarul, 27.09.2004, issue 4428)
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Bucharest, Oslo, New York, Piatra Neamt, Marseille, Boston, Budapest, Galati, Paris, London, Wien...
Contact person:
Tibor Szönyi, director of Opera Gallery, Budapest
Phone: + 36-20-587-8141
operagallery@hungary.org
Artist blog,
http://constantinseverin.wordpress.com/
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