"Dumitru Macovei has the ability to observe and explore every show of the visible. Each component of the environment proves, at a sensitive glance, that it is capable of carrying a sum of essential meanings, which our consciences pressed by emergencies of all kinds have forgotten or hidden through the exercise of formal experiments, otherwise necessary for the climate. cultural. In an era in which the artistic horizon is shaken by nihilistic attitudes, the will to deconstruct, the abandonment of cognitive programs, such a position offers a moment of silence, of resettling things in their normal path, in which it can occur. a beneficial reading of the real. The hunger for concrete keeps the artist on alert, in a permanent vigil. It does not allow dust to spread on the most common things and beings, only that at this level of perception a certain temporary wear works. Subtly, Dumitru Macovei receives messages from the current artistic atmosphere (he cultivates, for example, the reduction to the essential of some forms), but his fundamental dialogue considers especially the sacred plan, with which he meets while elaborating the frescoes of some churches. . The return to the terrestrial actuality, within the easel painting, makes him even more eager to delve into the tangible reality, to aspire to a fusion with the elements of the material world, with all those present that imprint our existence. Between the various compositional elements that make up the visual score, there is always a tendency to harmonize, which subjects any intensity of color. This chromatic balance, serene and tonic, is a characteristic of Dumitru Macovei's painting, whether we have secular expressions or the referent of the painting is placed in the sacred universe. ” (Constantin Prut)
DUMITRU MACOVEI to nsharpening in1933 in Solont commune, Bacău county. studies: School of Mural Art within the Roman Patriarchate; University of Arts - Bucharest / Since 1996 he is a member of UAP Romania, Bacău Branch
Personal exhibitions: UAP Bacău Gallery, G.Apostu Center, Bacău Art Museum, Alfa Bacău Galleries; Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature, Căminul Artei, Orizont Gallery, EriCris Art, Dialog Gallery, 2 ART Gallery Ramnicu Vâlcea, UAP Iasi Galleries, Theodor Palady Buzău Gallery, Alexandra's Gallery;
Group exhibitions: UAP Bucharest Annual Salon, Museum of Literature, National Theater, Alexandra's Gallery Bucharest, “Galla” Galleries - National Art Salon, International Visual Arts Fair, Arts Salon, 4th edition, Brâncuși Hall - Parliament Palace, Arts Salon - Art House, U -Art Gallery - "Balchik, the Mirage of Light", Art House - Tescani Camp, Șuțu Palace -Sozopol Camp 5th edition, Elite Art Gallery - Painters in Balchik, Elite Prof Art - Spring Salon, Cotroceni National Museum - Bouquet of Flowers, Gallery Romanian - “Tescani 40”, Soleil de L ”Est ARTCUB - Winter Salon 2016 - 2017, Căminul Artei - Portrait, National Museum of Maps and Old Books, Arad Biennial, Satu Mare, group exhibition Buna Vestire, Iași - Launch of the Soleil de L-Est Album, Twenty years of activity Bacau, Chisinau - Saloons of Moldova (nominated).
exhibitions into the foreign countries: Salons of Moldova, Chisinau, AKOULUKATU Gallery 14, RIIHIMAKI, Finland, GREETINGS, VANHAN KIRJASTO TALON EMIL- SALI, TAMPERE, Finland, INTERSALON AJV, BUDEJO VICE, Czech Republic
LIKE YOU AND MONTH, Paris - Montreuil, NA-H-VISION, Stuttgart, Paris - Galerie Vache Bleu, Bulgaria - Silistra, Ruse, Israel - Rosh Pina, France, Saint-Cyr-Sur-Loire (City Hall), Soleil de L .Est, Paris Retrospective Romanian Contemporary Painting.
Internships and documentary trips: 2002, 2004 Paris
Creative camps: Tescani, Moinești, Slănic Moldova, Sovata, Vârful Câmpului-Botoșani, Sinaia, Straja, Desesti, Hoteni Maramureș, Tihuța – Bistrița Năsăud, Mraconia, Rosh Pina – Israel; Serbia- Deliblata, Balcic, Sozopol –Bulgaria, Tabăra de creație internațională „Soleil de L’Est” – Saint-Cyr-Sur-Loire – Franța.
Works purchased in the country and abroad: art museums: Bacău, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Iași; Satu Mare. Private collections: Bacău, Bucharest, Germany, Canada, Belgium, Israel;
honors: National Award for Sacred Art awarded by UAP Bucharest for 2002; UAP Bacău branch award for 2010; UAP Bacău branch award for 2017.
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