Roxana Scripcaru
Head of the Romanian Postmodern & Contemporary Art Evaluation Office
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43. Green Pot [1996]
1942, Braşov
Estimate
Pretul de pornire si cel estimat nu sunt preturi de vanzare efective
EUR 5.000 - 9.000
Sold
Pretul de pornire si cel estimat nu sunt preturi de vanzare efective
EUR 14.000
Session
Tue, 19 November 2024 17:00
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The artist bets, especially in compositions with multiple characters, on the spatiality and distances that are installed between them. In Câlția's work, the character should not be interpreted only through the prism of decoding a human silhouette, but can embody a cloud, a tree, a bird or even the background of the work. The artist presents the background as a perpetuum mobile and an infinite ancestral space on which he fixes a protagonist (regardless of its origin) and constructs the rest of the composition around the two elements. In this work, the central motif is constituted by the vase with flowers, a motif that we often meet throughout his work. Especially in the works done in the '80s-'90s Stefan Câlția focuses on canvases with dried flowers, wildflowers, daisies or dandelions. He opts for a bursting chromatic and predominantly uses shades of green or violet. His flowers draw their sap from the strong color of the background, they charge from the vivid color of the vessel in which they reside and triumphantly rise outside of it. Whether they become the protagonists of the work, or whether they share the canvas with ceramic vessels or fruits, Stefan Câlția's floral elegies refer to the primordial village, to the simplicity of rural living and the endless meadows that delight us with their beauty. The choice of wildflowers will not be random, as the placement of them in the ceramic vessel will not be casual. The return to origins and to a primordial space occurs in the form of a well-defined plastic language. The painting genre that Stefan Câlția approaches is thus inscribed in the realist-fantastic area. The artist takes on the role of a narrator in images and assigns a narrative function to his painting, regardless of the subject addressed.
References
GUȚĂ, Adrian; PAVEL, Amelia, "Ștefan Câlția", Possible Gallery, Bucharest, 2004. "Stories with Ștefan Câlția", UNArte Publishing House, Bucharest, 2013. Steluța Pestrea Suciu, "Interview with the painter Ștefan Câlția", in Astra Magazine, no. 3-4, 2016.
Dimensions
width 46 cm, height 61 cm
Description
oil on canvas, Signed and dated at the top center, in red, in monogram, "Câlția, 1996"
Dating
1996
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Detalii
The artist bets, especially in compositions with multiple characters, on the spatiality and distances that are installed between them. In Câlția's work, the character should not be interpreted only through the prism of decoding a human silhouette, but can embody a cloud, a tree, a bird or even the background of the work. The artist presents the background as a perpetuum mobile and an infinite ancestral space on which he fixes a protagonist (regardless of its origin) and constructs the rest of the composition around the two elements. In this work, the central motif is constituted by the vase with flowers, a motif that we often meet throughout his work. Especially in the works done in the '80s-'90s Stefan Câlția focuses on canvases with dried flowers, wildflowers, daisies or dandelions. He opts for a bursting chromatic and predominantly uses shades of green or violet. His flowers draw their sap from the strong color of the background, they charge from the vivid color of the vessel in which they reside and triumphantly rise outside of it. Whether they become the protagonists of the work, or whether they share the canvas with ceramic vessels or fruits, Stefan Câlția's floral elegies refer to the primordial village, to the simplicity of rural living and the endless meadows that delight us with their beauty. The choice of wildflowers will not be random, as the placement of them in the ceramic vessel will not be casual. The return to origins and to a primordial space occurs in the form of a well-defined plastic language. The painting genre that Stefan Câlția approaches is thus inscribed in the realist-fantastic area. The artist takes on the role of a narrator in images and assigns a narrative function to his painting, regardless of the subject addressed.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For clarifications regarding the bidding procedure, hammer price costs, guarantee, payment, and collection terms for the winning lot, we recommend carefully reading/re-reading the Bidding Regulations.
For additional information regarding the lot and the auction, please contact the Art Consultants Department.
References
GUȚĂ, Adrian; PAVEL, Amelia, "Ștefan Câlția", Possible Gallery, Bucharest, 2004. "Stories with Ștefan Câlția", UNArte Publishing House, Bucharest, 2013. Steluța Pestrea Suciu, "Interview with the painter Ștefan Câlția", in Astra Magazine, no. 3-4, 2016.
Dimensions
width 46 cm, height 61 cm
Description
oil on canvas, Signed and dated at the top center, in red, in monogram, "Câlția, 1996"
Dating
1996
Brought to you by
Roxana Scripcaru
Head of the Romanian Postmodern & Contemporary Art Evaluation Office
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