Vasile Stefanoiu
Website: https://stefanoiuvasile.wordpress.com/
Country: Romania
Vasile Stefanoiu is a Romanian sculptor who through his sculptures conveys new messages with established techniques, moving from form to content, becoming an ideational art in which the concept takes precedence. He is one of those sculptors who insists on making art in the traditional way, but without rejecting contemporary trends. For him, sculpture is the confluence of music, poetry, life and nature in material. In some of his sculptures, he brings back the legends of Greek mythology (abandoned since Auguste Rodin) and places them in different contexts, suggesting movement in metamorphosis, to create a way of seeing again in modern times. In sculpture, he aims to produce the sensation of the real and create images that straddle the border between the real and the unreal, exploring that fine connection between the authentic and the artificial. The sculpture, before detaching it from its raw form, creates it in his mind in solitude, sketches designs and sculpts it by direct carving. He won several awards and honorable mentions, among the most important being: “International Prize MICHELANGELO” and "The Stars of Art and Market ‘23, Rome, Teatro Italia 22th, July 2023; “Leonardo Da Vinci International Award” – Milan Italy – 2023; "Artist of the Year 2022" award at the Artavita contest in Santa Barbara, California - USA; "Talent Prize Award" at TERAVARNA Gallery in Los Angeles – USA, at the "4th Figurative" art contest; “Grand Prize - exhibition 2022”, organized by Exhibitione from Toronto, Canada;
Arachne – metamorphosis, 2021, marble and copper, H.W.D. 70 x 37 x 19 cm, Weight 32 kg
Icarus - the dream of freedom, 2021, 2021,marble, iron and wood H.W.D. 101 x 74 x 37 cm, weight 28 kg
Pygmalion & Galateea - metamorphosis, 2021, stone H.W.D. 75 x 42 x 18 cm
Prayer, 2021, stone, H.W.D. 40 x 15 x 15 cm
From the creative Orpheus to the contemporary man, 2022, marble an stone, H.W.D.150x87x57 cm.
I AM YOU - Fascination, 2022, Walnut wood and marble, H.W.D.56 x 40 x 50 cm
NO WAR ! The allegory of power, 2022, wood, H.W.D. 125 x 33 x 50 cm
Motherhood, a creative force of divine origin, 2020, river stone, H.W.D. 52 x 35 x 22 cm