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Profile Information
- Website
- http://3rdparadigm.net/
- Relationship status
- married
- College / University
- Iasi University
- Graduation
- July 15, 1977
- Member type
- Artist, Critic
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Painting
- I am...
- 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.
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www.redroom.com Where the writers are.
Constantin Severin was born in Baia de Arama, Romania, on the 8th of February 1952.
He is a visual artist, member of ''3rd Paradigm'' International Artists Group (http://3rdparadigm.net/) and of European Artists e.V. Group, Germany. He is also a writer (www.yuniku.no), member of the Romanian Writers' Union (represented by Bodtker Yuniku Agency, Oslo). 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 has introduced into our current vocabulary two
new concepts: archetypal expressionism and post -literature, in essays
published on the site of the well known Saatchi Gallery of London (these
may be viewed at http://www.saatchi-galery.co.uk). The first essay
concerns contemporary art, the latter, an original philosophy of culture.
Activity as a visual artist
Solo exhibitions:
''Text and Time'', September 2004, The Bucovina Museum Complex, Suceava, Romania, (included on the EuroNews Agenda of major European cultural events);
''The Signs of the Time'', November 2004, The NahVision Art Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany(also included on 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, included on the Rendez-vous magazine with the major art events in Europe).
''My archetypal Suceava City'', April 2009, Dalype Gallery, Oslo, Norway.
''Text and Time. The Archetypal Expressionism'', November-December 2009, The Museum of Visual Art, Galati, Romania, curated by Dan Basarab Nanu, director of the Museum of Visual Art.
Group exhibitions:
International Cultural Centre, Helsinki, Finland, April 2005;
National Museum of History, Chisinau, Republic of Moldavia, June 2006;
Stanzwerk Bochum, Germany, June-July 2007, 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.
UNESCO Ambassador of eurointegration through art. Founder of Archetypal Expressionism Group on ARTMESH (41 international emergent artists). Thirty-niseven times in TOP 50 (4 times TOP 10) at the online art competition SHOWDOWN, organized by SAATCHI GALLERY. Freedom & Art book Project-Mirca Art Group-Skogas, Sweden (An Art Happening), 2008.
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.
- About my artwork
- 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 or 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.
- Artists I like
- Klee, Solar, Brancusi.
- Interests
- Major gallerists, curators, collectors.
Esto's Lover
First novel by the acclaimed Romanian poet Constantin Severin (The Alchemical City, Walls
and Neutrino etc.)
Synopsis
In March of 1975 the famous Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato (Esto), falls in love, at the age
of 62, with a young physicist, Maria Rustin, 36, at the University of Buenos Aires. Their
affair, an impressive story in this city of “el tango,” catalyzed by a touching need for
communication, is facilitated by the appearance of a new device, the fax machine.
During their heated correspondence Esto is surprised to find in Maria a potentially gifted
novelist. He encourages her to write a book. Both lovers experience radical changes in their
inner lives, as the affair progresses. After it has gone on, however, for several months Maria's
husband, Daniel Rustin, an Oxford physicist (interested in teleportation and the effects of
sound on matter), learning of it, decides to make it public. By the end of the novel he succeeds
in moving objects with the help of sounds. The reader must discover for himself how Daniel
accomplishes this and its effects upon a beautiful love story.
The narrator of the magic-hyperrealist novel is Maria herself, who describes actual events
in the lives of well-known people in Buenos Aires, in her native region, Bucovina, and
elsewhere in world history. She includes details regarding two secret societies founded in the
Middle Ages to promote the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci.
Their shadowy masters, Right Hand Circle and Left Hand Circle, move across the
boundaries of time to instruct Leonardo himself and such modern masters such as Picasso,
Dali, Brauner and Warhol. Under their influence subliminal messages are introduced into
works of art. We learn how Left Hand Circle causes Leonardo to create the ''Mona Lisa,'' why
Victor Brauner loses an eye in Paris. We learn too of a crime committed in Bucharest. Finally,
Maria must assume the role of private detective to reveal how certain agents of the Left Hand
Circle in 1989 victimize her own childhood friend, Mihai Driscu, the well-known Romanian
art critic.
Secondary characters in this spectacular narrative include J. L. Borges, Astor Piazzola, Xul
Solar, Henri Coanda, Victor Brauner and Ernesto Kahan, most of whom had been living, at
one time or another, in a city where the soul of tango is itself a major character. Love,
passion, mystery, art and music co-mingle as essential ingredients of this amazing novel.
The manuscript will be available in Romanian very soon. (2008)
World rights for sale. Please contact Marit Bödtker,
Bodtker Yuniku Agency,yuniku@online.no. tel. +47 908 23045
Read more about Constantin Severin on www.yuniku.no
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The Alchemical City
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The Wineyard and the Wine
Group Show dedicated to Bachus by over 45 international artists, organized by the museum/art gallery of art brut Galerie de 4 coins, France at the International Art Center George Apostu, Bacau, Romania.
The opening is on the 26th of February 2009, 5 pm.
The curator is the French visual artist and art critic Luis Marcel, founder of Galerie de 4 coins.
The opening is on the 26th of February 2009, 5 pm.
The curator is the French visual artist and art critic Luis Marcel, founder of Galerie de 4 coins.
Posted on February 26, 2009 at 5:30am
Solo exhibition promoted by EuroNews
My solo exhibition ‘’The Alchemical City’’ ( Lascar Vorel Art Gallery , Piatra Neamt , Romania , 13/01-30 01 2009) is now promoted by the TV channel EuroNews. The same show will run in April 2009 in Oslo, Norway, at Dalype Art Gallery.
Frédéric Ponsard, the coordinator of the magazine Rendez-vous, dedicated to the major European art events, announced me the decision of his team of art journalists/experts to include it on this prestigious programme and promote it over the… Continue
Frédéric Ponsard, the coordinator of the magazine Rendez-vous, dedicated to the major European art events, announced me the decision of his team of art journalists/experts to include it on this prestigious programme and promote it over the… Continue
Posted on January 9, 2009 at 11:00am
Archetypal Expressionism
by Constantin Severin
It doesn't take more than a few words to describe this artistic undertaking: a new concept encompassing 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… Continue
Posted on February 11, 2008 at 2:30pm
Comment Wall (36 comments)
- At 7:06pm on March 14, 2011,
Rossello Damiano said…
- At 1:13am on July 28, 2009,
carmen chirica pislariu said… - Am vizualizat lucrarile tale si m-am emotionat..
Un mare salut pentru un mare artist..
Carmen
- At 9:41pm on July 18, 2009,
Luke Gilliam said… - Hi Constantin,
I have put up 6 new p aintings on my sit e. I look forward to hear your welcome comments.
A huge embrace.
Luke ::=====)
- At 4:50pm on November 7, 2008,
ART & ARTISTS LA said… - Thank you Constantin
- At 6:17am on November 7, 2008,
Pia B. Lehmann said… - Wonderful and outstanding artworks! Nice to see you here too!
Warmest regards Pia
- At 5:10am on November 7, 2008,
ART & ARTISTS LA said…
- BLUEBIRD ART HOUSE AND ART&ARTISTS LA are pleased to announce the 1st INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION 2009.
Open to all artists in all fine arts media we seek to recognize outstanding quality and diversity in the arts.
The 2009 IJC is open to all artists worldwide, age 18 and older. All works must be original. Entries in the following medias will be accepted: Painting, Drawing, Mixed media, Printmaking, Watercolor, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Photography.
Entry Deadline February 15th 2009.
AWARD
A solo show next winter 2009 at Bluebird Art House and $1500 to the winner. 1 work in the show for each one of the 3 runner up.
To receive the Submission Form and bases
E-MAIL: BBIRDINTCOMP@YAHOO.COM
- At 7:43am on September 26, 2008,
Giulio Baistrocchi said… - hi dear friend long time without news from you, long time i m not on artmesh, will ve a look i miss tour deep insights
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- At 10:43pm on September 2, 2008,
Vernissage Gallery said… - hi
d.vernacki
- At 4:01pm on August 5, 2008,
Alberto D'Assumpcao said… - I'm so glad to find you and wonderful work here, Constantin!!!
- At 3:11pm on June 25, 2008,
elizabeth featherstone hoff said… - I accept your invitation withpleasure. efh
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