Aniela Ovadiuc
Critical References
Aniela Ovadiuc is fond of porcelain, sandstone, oxides and enamels (and the list could go on, but we shall confine ourselves to the materials used for the pieces on display at the Senso Gallery), she labours with glaring joy, sensing the way to sway the matter, adapting its techniques. Her monologue, so as to use the title of one of the two works on display, is not soliloquy, even if the artist appears alone, yet in various poses; her self-portraits reveal an unstrained young woman, screening without prejudice, thinking without writhing, planning ahead without gloom, and when she only focuses on certain parts of the visage – the eyes, the mouth, she does so in order to generate an infusion of expressiveness rather than to omit or conceal something. - Doina Pauleanu PhD, art critic, director of the Constanta Art Museum.
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Born on March 12, 1980 in Constanta, Romania
Graduated from the Bucharest National University of Arts, Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design – Ceramics – Glass - Metal section, Ceramics specialization, class of 2003
Graduated the Master of Arts studies – visual arts, Bucharest National University of Arts, class of 2005
Member of the Romanian Union of Fine Artists (UAP) since 2004
Member of the Board of Directors of the Decorative Arts Branch within the Romanian UAP during the 2011-2015 period.
Personal Exhibition: September 2012 – Book - Journal, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
Group Exhibitions:
October 2015 - Galateea Contemporary Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Ruhr, The Innovative Art Fair, Essen, Germany
February 2015 – Faces of Hyper-Connectivity, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
2014 Galateea Contemporary Art Gallery and Resonant Fantasies/ The Sound of Ceramics, Contemporary Art Ruhr, The Innovative Art Fair, Essen, Germany
2014 Art Safari – International Pavilion of Arts, Bucharest
May 2014 - Ceramic Rendez vous, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
October 2013 – Romanian Ceramists, Casa Matei Gallery, Cluj
2013 - Galateea Today, Palatele Brancovenesti Cultural Centre, Mogosoaia
2013 - Temporal Perceptions, Curtea Veche Museum, Bucharest, Romania
September 2012 - The Art Deco Decorative Arts Biennial, Parliament Palace, “Constantin Brancusi” Exhibition Hall, Bucharest
August 2012 – Book – Object International Exhibition, Luciano Morandini. Il filo della poesia, Comune di san Giorgio di Nogaro, Italy
August 2012 - Human Evolution / Involution, within the Inner Mutations project, Mamaia Exhibition Pavilion, Constanta
August 2012 - WEST MEETS EAST, A Cultural Book Exchange, Constanta Art Museum
May 2012 - Human Evolution / Involution, Curtea Veche Museum, Bucharest
April 2012 - Ceramics Now, international exhibition, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
March 2012 - Mica_Cera_Mica at the Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
February 2012 - Letter at the Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
December 2011 – January 2012– Ceramic Rendez vous, Galateea Gallery, Bucharest
November 2011- February 2012 – Decorative Arts Hall, Cotroceni, Bucharest
September 2011 – Dubrujan Interferences, Parliament Palace, “Constantin Brancusi” Exhibition Hall, Bucharest
September 2010 – Romanian Contemporary Ceramics, ICR (Romanian Cultural Institute), Paris, France
November 2009 – January 2010 – Romanian Ceramics Today, Mogosoaia Palace, Bucharest
May 2009 – charitable exhibition, Rotari Club, Constanta Art Museum
January 2007 – Ceramic Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
January 2007 – Crossing by Crossing, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest;
May 2006 – 4 ART, Art Gallery, Alba Iulia
July 2005 – Shape as a Symbol – Unagaleria Gallery, Bucharest
2004 - Young artists, Assamblage Gallery, Bucharest
October 2001 – Re-enaction of the Women of Cucuteni, in front of the Bucharest National Theatre
Symposium:
July 2010 – International Ceramics Symposium in Vinica, Macedonia, Ceramic Art Colony
June 2010 – RAKU Ceramics Camp, in Zeicani, Hunedoara
June 2007 – Ceramics Camp at the Singeorz – Bai Compared Art Museum
September 2006 - International Ceramics Symposium in Troyan, Bulgaria, The Symposium ART CERAMICA
May 2005 – Ceramics Show, organized by the “Mircea Dinescu” Foundation for Poetry.
Publications: Romanian Contemporary Ceramics, Aniela Ovadiuc, Ceramics Now Magazine, issue two, 2012