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The White Matter Sculpture Project – A tribute to Brancusi

The White Matter Sculpture Project – A tribute to Brancusi Constantin Brancusi “What is real is not the external form but the essence of things. Starting from this truth it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.”– Constantin Brancusi “A thing which would pretend to reproduce nature would only be a copy,” Brancusi said. “I am trying to get a spiritual effect.” He didn’t see the beauty of sculpture as lying in the […]

“EQUILIBRIUM” Petru Bogdan Pictorial – Imagine Magazine Vol. V

“EQUILIBRIUM” Petru Bogdan Pictorial – Imagine Magazine Vol. V Interview with Petru Bogdan “It’s all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream” Edgar Allan Poe “A Dream Within a Dream“ Somewhere between Fragility and Force, Virility and Grace there is Innocence and Beauty, there is Equilibrium. Around the year 2003 I had the chance to work on a project introduced to me by a good friend, Catalin Predoiu. He was producing the “AutoShow” 2004 Calendar, a […]

Petru Bogdan, From 2D to 3D, From Photography to Sculpture

Petru Bogdan, From 2D to 3D, From Photography to Sculpture In 2012-2013, almost by chance, Petru Bogdan discovered the sculpture. As was the case with photography 15 years ago, a new artistic expression path has opened, a new window of communication with the Universe harmony. Artist Adolph “Ad” Reinhardt (American, 1913–1967) once commented, “Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.” Because sculpture frequently occupies space in much the same way as humans […]

Petru Bogdan – The Artist, The Photographer

Petru Bogdan – The Artist, The Photographer Born in 1974 in Bucharest, he showed an early passion for art in general. At first he was fascinated and preoccupied with classical music, a passion to which his grandmother and pick-up contributed, which, more than likely, represented for many of the “prisoners” of the communist area a form of education, a form of resistance and a form of dream escape, a transcendental connection with the rest of the world, with a better […]