Dumitru Gorzo

Different Perspective (2012)

Dumitru Gorzo was born in Ieud, Maramures, Romania in 1975. In 1997 he received a visual arts degree from the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania. He was the co-founder of 'Rostopasca', an influential contemporary artistic movement in Romania.
Gorzo's methods of working have ranged from street prankster to performance artist to studio painter and sculptor—effectively evading any strict categorization. In 2006 he was the subject of a major, one-person exhibition at the Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in Bucharest. The exhibition then travelled to the Brukenthal Art Museum, Sibiu, Romania. Since 1999 he has featured in many exhibitions in Romania where his work garnered extensive press coverage and a growing audience.

His exhibitions have frequently generated controversy for their political and sexual subject matter and the artist's unusually bold treatment of issues that are still considered quite controversial in Romania.
Part of his work evokes the traditional Romanian art of woodwork of his native village. In his paintings on carved wooden reliefs, the artist portrays relatives and neighbours over relief sculptures of primitive characters and archetypes carved by the artist into panels of linden and fir. Gorzo has returned repeatedly to the members of this village of Ieud as a subject.
In addition to numerous solo exhibitions in Romania, Germany, Austria and Luxembourg, his work has been included in group shows in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Romania. Earlier this year, Dumitru Gorzo featured in a public art exhibition in Red Bank, New Jersey, presenting a series of paintings titled Heads on the exteriors of historic and contemporary buildings.
The artist splits his time between Bucharest and New York.

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