DARIE DUP

          Sculpture, photography, installation, site specifics

          Associated Professor Sculpture Department UNA (National University of Arts) Bucharest (from 1922 – till present; between 1995 and 2006 Head of Sculpture Department).

          Member of The Royal Society of Sculpture.

          Born in

          4.05.1959,Zlatna, Romania

          STUDIO ADDRESS:

          Str. ErmilPangratti, nr. 31, sector 1, Bucharest

Dup is one of the most representative artists of his generation, with a well-articulated “personal brand” that combines the so-called postmodern artistic vocabulary with his own artistic explorations.

During the 1980s and ’90s, Dup worked within a neo-expressionist type of figuration, expressed mainly in wood and metal, revealing dramatic visions upon the human condition. In recent years his art has become diversified and enriched, constantly and methodologically, while expanding the range of references and reasons.

Dup is an innovator of sculptural vocabulary, remarkable especially for the variety of “non-artistic” materials (especially common plastic objects) used in the process, his interest in physical and anatomical fragmentation, the use of digital image production procedures and, as a general feature, the appropriation of an extremely important role to color, always transmitted in vivid, strong, almost talkative shades.

In 2004, Dup was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit in the Degree of Knight, and in 2007 he received the Excellence Award of the Union of Visual Artists. In 2012 and 201 the Sculpture Award of the Romanian Union of Artists. 2016 The Brancusi Award of the Romanian Academy, Romanian Cultural Institute, Brancusi Center Targu Jiu.

His works can be found in private collections in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, USA, and Romania.

EDUCATION:

          2002-2004 – Phd in Arts with the thesis: “Saint George, hero of the Christian Eastern iconography”,Unarte Publishing House – Bucharest, 2006.

          1978-1983 – UNA, Bucharest, Sculpture Department

          AWARDS and GRANTS:

          2014 – Order of theCultural Merit of Romania

          2013 – BrâncuşiGrant, ICR (Romanian Cultural Institute) / Cité des Arts Paris

          2012 – The Prize for Sculpture / the Romania Artists Union (UAP)

          2008 – The Prize of the Culture Ministry for the 8 art+, Bucharest

          2007 – The Excellency Prize of UAP

          2007 – GeneralitatValenciana Grant, Valencia, Spain (workshop Politecnico                   University)

          1995 – The Italian Governmental Grant, Rome

          1992 – The Prize for Ambiental Art of the RomanianArtists Union (UAP)

          1992 – The Prize for Sculpture, The Municipality Townhall, Bucharest

          1991 – The DzintariJurmala Residence, Riga

          1998 – The Youth Prize -Drawing Biennial, Arad

          1985–1987 – The Frederick Storck Grant, Bucharest

          1984 – The Artists Union (UAP) Grant

          1983 – The First Prize for Sculpture, Studentfest, Sibiu

          AFFILIATION TO GROUPS:

          2016 – Cultural Association Combinart/1+1=10

          2007–2010 – 8art+ Group

          PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

          2022 – Grand Parade of lifeless packages- Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca

          2021 – ALLwreadymade, STRATA Gallery, Bucharest

          2020   LOREM IPSUM – Craiova Art Museum,

          2016 –The Pink Wheel, Oracle building, site specific, Bucharest

          2016 – Artist Presentation, MNAC, Bucharest

          2016 – Art at the window,Simeza Gallery, Bucharest

          2016 AXIS MUNDI#4, site-specific installation, The Romanian Peasant Museum,                   Bucharest

          2015 AXIS MUNDI#3, site-specific installation, The District Museum of Gorj,                        Târgu-Jiu, Romania

          2014 AXIS MUNDI#2, site-specific installation, The Contemporary Art Gallery,                      The Brukenthal Museum of Fine Arts, Sibiu, Romania

          2014 AXIS MUNDI#1, site-specific installation, The Brâncoveneşti Palaces                             Cultural Centre, Mogoşoaia, Romania

          2011 – New Sculptures, Kovalenco Gallery, Geldrop, Holland

          SCULPTURE and PAINTING RESIDENCIES:

          2011-2010-2009 – Zervasart, Patras, Greece (painting)

          2007 – Baia Mare, sculpture park, Romania

          2006 – Cisnădie Townhall, Cisnădie, Romania

          1995 – The George Apostu Cultural Centre, Bacău, Romania

          1994 – Groot Schuylenburg, the Netherlands

          1994 – Sângeorz-Băi, Romania

          1993 – Mraconia, Romania

          1992 – sculpture park BorchelenSchaft, the Netherlands

          1992 – Sibiu, Romania

          1991 – DzintariJurmala, Riga

          1985; 1983 – Măgura Sculpture Park,Buzău, Romania

          GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2022 reUNIONS of Artists – Transmedia Peace Kit, GaleriaRaykoAlexiev, Sofia

2022 Portret / Autoportret / Selfie, Rezidenta Scena 9

2022 How to explain…/Cum saexplici, Museumof Art Cluj Napoca

2021 How to explain…/Cum saexplici…Expozitie centenar J Beuys, Goethe Institute, Bucuresti

2021   Artmarket Budapest. Galeria Strata

2021    SNAC CFP București

 2021   ARTSAFARI București

 2019    SNAC CFP București

 2019    ManifestPolitica/ UAP Oradea

 2019   ManifestPolitica/ ICR Budapesta

2019 PolitikaiManifesztum-SzepharomKozossegi Ter, Budapesta, Ungaria

 2019   SNAC,SENAT CFP

 2019 Construcție / Deconstrucție, ParlamentulEuropean, Bruxelles

 2019 Il viaggiodelRinoceronte, ICR Lisabona, Portugalia

2019 Arte Laguna World/ https://artelaguna.world/artist/dup-darie/ 

2018 HERITAGE//Contemporary Art/Act, Sighișoara

2018 #isday, International Sculpture Day, HalaTurnătoria, CombinatulFondului Plastic   

2017 Dada on Tour: Last stop Bucharest, PMB princreart, with Cabaret Voltaire

Zurich, under the patronage of Swiss Embassy,GaleriaTipografia, CombinatulFondului Plastic

2017 Balassi by Night, exhibition, action-painting

2017 100 Romanian contemporary artist’sinterview

2017 The IV Intercultural Romanian Korean exhibition, Korea, Boryeong Si Museum, Korea

2017 Out of the Box, GaleriaHazelaar, NL

2017 Multiverse, Darie Dup / Laura Covaci- Materia Repositorium

          2016 – Hyperconnectivity, Many Colors Association, ICR Berlin

2016 –The Collection in the Archives, curators Adriana Oprea and Irina Radu, MNAC, Bucharest

          2015 – C.A.R. Contemporary Art, Ruhr/ KunstMesse, Essen, Germany

          2015 – Arts in Bucharest, Man Against Life, Arthalle Gallery, Bucharest

          2015 – Kovalenco Gallery, Geldrop, Holland

          2014 – 150 years- UNA. The Artistic Education, curator Adrian Guţă, MNAC,                                 Bucharest

          2014 – Sculpture 2014, TIPOGRAFIA gallery, Bucharest

          2014 – Arts in Bucharest, TIPOGRAFIA gallery, Bucharest

          2013 – Black Trees, drawing installation, Les Atelieres de la Rue Ordener, Paris

          2013 – Trees by nails -video, 8’, (video camera Veronique Barbé), Cité des                              Arts Paris

          2011 – Kovalenco Gallery, Geldrop, the Netherlands

          2011 – ZOOmania, curator Mihai Oroveanu, MNAC, Bucharest

          2011 – The Other Body, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest

          2009 – The Bronze Age, The Art Museum,Cluj,m Romania

          2008 – 8art+, curator Mihai Oroveanu, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, ICR Madrid, ICR Paris, ICR Lisabona

          2007 – Homage to Brâncuşi, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi,                               Mumbai, India

          2007 – The trace of my body in space, with Reka Csapo Dup, UNA Gallery,

                   Bucharest

          2006 – Group exhibition, the Art Museum, Cluj,Romania

          2004 – Self-portrait, Mogoşoaia Palace, Bucharest

          2000 – Ecce Homo, Hazelaar Gallery, Soest, the Netherlands

          1998 – Romanian Art Abroad,Mucsarnok, curator Laszlo Beke, Sorin Dumitrescu, Budapest

          1998 – ZeitgenössicheRumänische Kunst, Leipzig Book Fair, curator Mihai                             Oroveanu, Leipzig, Germany

          1995 – Edizione Centenario Biennale di Venezia, The Romanian Pavillion, curators CoriolanBabeţi and Dan Hăulică, Venice, Italy

          1995 – Deventer Gallery, the Netherlands

          1995 – Catacomba Gallery, Bucharest

          1994 – Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

          1994 – Artexpo, Bucharest

          1994 – Simeza Gallery, Bucharest

          1993 – Hazelaar Gallery, Soest, the Netherlands

          1992 – World Exhibition – Sevilla – The Era of Discovery, The Romanian

                   Pavillion, curators Mihai Oroveanu and CoriolanBabeţi, Sevilla, Spain

          1992 – Sculpture Symposium, BorchelEnSchaft, the Netherlands

          1991 – Auriga, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest

          1990 – 9+9, Dalles Hall, curator Mihai Oroveanu, Bucharest

          1990 – Darie Dup and Maria Cocea-Sculptures and Drawings, Simeza Gallery,

                   Bucharest

          WORKSHOPS:

          2010 – The XXII-nd Sculpture International Conference, Sculpture Center,                                       Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

          2009 – Sculpture in the 21-st Century, Workshop with William Tucker, Darie Dup

                   and Reka Csapo Dup, UNA, Bucharest

          ART WORKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:

          Auriga-The Soldier Step, Stephan Janssen Collection, State University Art            Museum, Phoenix, U.S.A.

          King Michael of Romania Collection, Bucharest

          The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest

          The Art Museum, Bacău

          The Art Museum, Galaţi

          Several private collections in Romania, Switzerland, France, Germany.

          PUBLIC ART:

          2012 – Nicolae Titulescu, Rizari Park, Athens

          2005 – Andrei Şaguna monument, Andrei Şaguna University, Constanţa, Romania

            2004 – Monument Project, Sfântul Gheorghe, Romania

          Măgura Sculpture Park, Romania

          BorchelEnSchaft Sculpture Park, the Netherlands

ARTICLESAND STUDIES:

          Arta Magazine, Sculpture, No. 8-9, Bucharest, 2013.

          Arta Magazine, Art in public space, No. 1, Bucharest, 2011.

 Reflexions about a discovered house, Stefania Kenley / Darie Dup, in Arhitectura

          No. 1, 2011.

          Mihai Oroveanu, Artists’ Studios, Darie Dup, vol. 1, pp. 47-51,        Noi Media Print, Bucharest, 2008.

          Mircea Deac, Critical and documentary LEXICON. Painters, Sculptors and           Drawers from Romania, Medro Publishing House, Bucharest, 2008.

          Romanian Rhapsody. The NGMA plays host to yet another international

          exhibition, Georgina Maddox, ArtBeat, in The Indian Express, Mumbay,

          10 December 2007, India.

          Substance for feelings- Darie Dup, Corina Boisnard, in Caesar, No. 26, 2006.

           Biennale di Venezia- Ein Rundgang, in KUNSTFORUM, No. 31/1995 p. 159.

          Constantin Prut, Darie Dup, L’ArtRoumain, ReperesContemporains,

1995. 37, UAP Publishing House, Bucharest, 1995.

          Other articles about the artist in journals and art magazines: Adevărul, Arhitext,Arhitectura, Arta, Artelier, DilemaVeche, Igloo,Observatorul Cultural, RomâniaLiterară, and other publications with texts by:

          Laszlo Beke,CoriolanBabeţi, RuxandraBalaci, Mihai Oroveanu, Adrian Guţă,

          AndraMatzal, Gheorghe Iova, Simona Năstac, Adela Văetişi, Theodor Redlow,

          Alexandra Titu, and many others.

          CATALOGUES (selection):

          Darie Dup Axis Mundi #3, text by Gheorghe Iova, Museum ofTârgu Jiu,

          2015.

Darie Dup Axis Mundi #1, text by ReliMocanu, Mogosoaia Palace, Bucharest, 2014.

          150 years of National Art University (UNA), Bucharest, 2014.

          Elisabeta Palace, the Royalty Center in Romania nowadays, Prince Radu of

          Hohenzollern-Veringen, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest. 2006.

          Versions of Transfiguration, László Beke, Sorin Dumitrescu,    Mucsarnok/Anastasia, Budapest, 1998.

          ZeitgenössicheRumänische Kunst, Adrian Guţă, RuxandraBalaci, Mihai      Oroveanu, Leipzig, Germany, 1998.

Experiment in Romanian Art since 1960, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, coordinator Alexandra Titu,Bucharest, 1997.

          L’ Eredità di Brancusi in Romania: dal tagliodirettoallasculturamentale,

1965-1995, CoriolanBabeţi, Ed. Arte in, IstitutoRomeno di Cultura e RicercaUmanistica, Venezia, 1995.

          Belden in Soest 93, De Hazelaar, Soest, the Netherlands, 1993.