38. Comet [1972]

1937, București - 2022, București

Selling price

EUR 10.854

Session

Thu, 6 July 2023 19:30

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The artistic style of Henry Mavrodin is at the crossroad of metaphysical painting and surrealism. The fantastic nature and abstract space which in some instances resemble Salvador Dali or Francis Bacon, reveal the artist as melancholic and imposing, on the borderline between clarity and spirituality. Enigmatic and hermetic, with origins in his own utopian universe, Mavrodin's style reveals an infinite series of pictorial explorations in which the figurative and the abstract are juxtaposed. His work goes beyond the real plan; runs through the realm of the plausible and ends in a deployment of utopian forces. Existential norms will be linked only anecdotally to the artist's linguistic writings. Mavrodin presents himself as an explorer of the psychologic universe of his mind, but he does not hesitate to look outside for inspiration. He uses a limited number of objects, directly proportional to the limited number of shades we find mirrored in his chromatics. He bets on the poetic function of the human figure, even when he only captures it sculpturally. The violin appears, in his work, as an exponent of elegance and virtuosity. The multiplication both of the musical sign and of sculpture, enhances the transfer of vital breath to ordinary objects sketched on canvas. Henry Mavrodin also excels in the execution of the drawing, which he rigorously focuses on. His visionary lucidity and expressive tonal ratios plus discrete artificial lighting effects reveal a new order of logical relationships, this time shrouded in mystery.

References

"Henry Mavrodin", Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest, 2007.

Dimensions

width 120 cm, height 100 cm

Description

oil on canvas, signed and dated upper right, in black, "H. Mavrodin, (19)72"

Dating

1972

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