biography

Marius Craita-Mandra   born in Focsani, RO

Education
 
 
1995-2000 B.A., National University of Art, Bucharest, RO
 
 
Solo Exhibitions

2019         Approximately 870 cm or 12 steps, The Business Center, Bacau, RO

 
 
Selected Group Exhibition

2021         Tiles, The Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest, RO
2018         Intense yellow and other stains resistant to color, Art Museum, Bistrita, RO
2017         Sympathy and significance.Before the vertical labyrinth and behind the red line.
                 (Simpatie și semnificație.Înaintea labirintului vertical și în spatele liniei roșii.),
                 National Library Romania, Bucharest, RO
2013         Contemporary synthesis. The body in Balcan art Theresia Bastion,Timisoara, RO
2012         The Body, Art Dorm Gallery, Bucharest , RO
2011         Nud, Museum of Contemporary Art George Apostu, Bacau, RO
2010         Group exhibition, Limoges, Gueret, Tulle, FR
2010         Why the black is not white, Actionfields, Bruxelles, BE
2009         BBC, Art Museum, Cluj, RO
2008         Limousin, itinerant exhibition, FR
2007         International Evergreen Art Sympozium, Hovinkartano, FI
2003         Contemporary Art Salons, Art Galleries, Focsani, RO
 
 
Curator
 
 
 
 
Residencies
 
 
2019              Residence Pine Forest, Moinesti, RO
2008-2022  COLONIA 21, Tescani, RO
2013-2015     Straja, RO
2014              COLONIA 21, Dunavatul de Jos, RO
2007              Chisinau, Republic of Moldavia
2005              Campulung Muscel, RO
2005              La Vache Bleu, Paris, FR
2004              UNESCO, Eforie Nord, RO
2003-2007    COLONIA 21, Bistrita, RO
2002              Slanic Moldova, RO
2002              Comme vous émoi, Paris, FR
1990-1996     Comanesti, Moinesti, Geamana, Valea Uzului, Tescani, Magura, Bacau, RO
 
 
Awards
 
2020              The Award of Excellence, Republic of Moldavia Plastic Artists Union
2015              Branch Award, Romanian Plastic Artists Union, Bacau
2010              Bacovian autumn National Painting Contest Award
2006              Corneliu Vasilescu Award and St. Lucas Art Foundation Medal
2004              Romanian Plastic Artists Union Award at Ion Andreescu Buzau Biennale
2004              Union Award at Moldavian Salons, Republic of Moldavia Plastic Artists
2003              Lascar Vorel Painting Award at Piatra Neamt Biennale
2003              Jury Award at Moldavian Salons, Republic of Moldavia
2002              Romanian Plastic Artists Union, Bârlad Branch Painting Award
2000              Romanian Plastic Artists Union, Bârlad Branch Special Award
2000              Romanian Plastic Artists Union Special Award
 
 
Art Fairs
 
 
2016              Art Safari, Bucharest, RO
 
 
Selected Bibliography
 
The first edition of The Danube Contenporary Art Biennial, Empaty along the Danube, Bucharest 2022, (MO) The Official Monitor, pp 28-33
Alexandru Chira, Oliv Mircea, BN Connections, Charmides, 2018, p 68
Mirela Ivanciu, Galbenul intens si alte pete de culoare rezistente la sens, Nosa Nostra, Bistrita, 2018, pp 24-31
Anca Mihulet, Colona 21, Charmides, Bistrita, 2016, pp 56-71
Silviu Padurariu, The Pixels of Our Identity, Bucharest 2015, © unrestbucharest.com
Alexandra Titu, Nude and image games, Tera, Focsani, 2014, p 9
Alexandra Titu, Constantin Prut, Nud, Europrint, Focsani, 2011 p 9
Alexandra Titu, Constantin Prut, Contemporary synthesis. The body in Balcan Art, BrumaR, Timisoara, 2013, pp 33-34 Alexandra Titu, The Body, Europrint, Bucharest, 2012, p 9
Adrian Guta, New identities in Romanian painting and sculpture after 1990, Performantica, Iasi, 2007, p 18-19
Meltem Söylemez, SummArt Togetherness, Izmir 2007 Turkey, Alpofset, pp 42-43
Alexandru Chira, Adriana Barna, 2001-2006 Bistrita National Painting Symsosium, Chermides, Bistrita, 2006, p 36
Oliv Mircea, Alexandru Mircea, Interlop, Bistrita,2005, p 9
Constantin Prut, Pavel Susara, Maria Magdalena Crisan, Contemporary Art Exhibition, Europrint, Chisinau, 2004, p 13
„The complex visual discourse of Marius Craita-Mandra is unequivocally hyperrealistic, although it hints at several moments in the history of modern art and experimentalism. He genuinely believes in the actuality of the painted image and also in the „restoration” through painting of the concrete reality. Such attempts at precise recordings and representations of the world remind the viewer of the early photographic techniques and determine the artist to maintain an uninterrupted contact with the visible world and construct his visual metaphors on the grounds of these direct observations. Reality proves to be constantly surprising, rich in imaginative resources and inexhaustible as the ground for affective implications.
text from Alexandra Titu, Constantin Prut, Contemporary synthesis.
The body in Balcan Art, BrumaR, Timisoara, 2013, pp 33-34