About The Artist

About me: My Credo is: art must have a message. In my sculpture, marble, as matter, is revived, reinvented through art, after destruction. I collect waste from the marble industry, including funerary monuments and make sculptures by direct carving with traditional tools: chisels, drills, abrasives, etc. which I use manually. I sculpt on all sides in the "Ronde-bosse" system because it can be seen all around. I am one of those sculptors who insist on making art in the traditional way, but without rejecting contemporary trends. Sometimes I take sequences from the narrative context of some legends of ancient Greek civilization and sculpt the result of my imagination in a new way of seeing in the modern era, different, sometimes suggesting movement in the process of metamorphosis. I like direct sculpture, taking advantage of the routine of my childhood in a small village (Ciuta in Romania) where next to my father I carved large stone crosses for sale, which I sculpted nasty angels, so I learned the craft of direct sculpture. I made the leap from the craft of direct stone carving to artistic representation from a meeting, during my childhood, with the Romanian sculptor George Apostu, whom I saw carving in the yard of a house in Ciuta some strange shapes that did not resemble those products of village stonemasons (funerary monuments). I've been looking for the answer for the rest of my life ever since. In sculpture, I aim to produce the sensation of the real and to create images that are on the border between true and unreal, exploring that fine connection between authentic and artificial. Contact: Vasile Stefănoiu; Phone: +40732 117 447 Web: vasilestefanoiu.ro; https://sculpture-network.org/.../51405/VasileStefanoiu https://www.artconnect.com/profile/vasile-stefanoiu ; https://www.facebook.com/vasilestefanoiu/ https://www.instagram.com/vasile.stefanoiu; E-Mail: vasilestefanoiu09@gmail.com