Peter Jecza
Meditation II, 1970
Bronze
48 x 100 x 26 cm
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Peter Jecza follows the tradition of Romanian modern sculpture innovated by Constantin Brancusi. Jecza represented Romania at the Venice Biennale in 1977 and was awarded with the Gold Medal at...
Peter Jecza follows the tradition of Romanian modern sculpture innovated by Constantin Brancusi.
Jecza represented Romania at the Venice Biennale in 1977 and was awarded with the Gold Medal at the Ravenna Biennale twice.
His sculpture was strongly influenced by the British school of sculpture in particular Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, being also inspired by Max Bill and Eduardo Chilida.
He made part of the Objectualist Group in the 1960s in Timisoara, alongside Romul Nutiu, Gabriel Popa and Adalbert Luca, but became soon after, an independent creating artist.
His main themes covered the main socio-political events of the Cold-War in particular the race to conquer the space. His sculpture remind of space travellers, the flight or birds.
After his naturalistic debut as a student in the style of the Social Realist School he devoted his attention to abstraction. He developed an own language to communicate fear and anxiety caused by the Communist regime. His abstract forms became a silent critic to the system. The series of monads, the blinded mirrors and Dante's Universe series speak about isolation and censorship in an subtitle, abstract manner.
His later works of the 1980s and 1990s become more evident regarding their theme, the artist prefers the female body as central inspiration source of his work.
The work of Peter Jecza has a monumental appearance felt also in the small sized works. The impossibility to finance monumental projects and sculptures led to this condensed monumentality of each work, Peter Jecza used to say that a good sculpture indifferent of its size has to have an inner monumentality.
Peter Jecza remains one of the key sculptors of Romanian contemporary art alongside George Apostu and Paul Neagu, continuing the modernist paradigm of Constantin Brancusi.
Jecza represented Romania at the Venice Biennale in 1977 and was awarded with the Gold Medal at the Ravenna Biennale twice.
His sculpture was strongly influenced by the British school of sculpture in particular Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, being also inspired by Max Bill and Eduardo Chilida.
He made part of the Objectualist Group in the 1960s in Timisoara, alongside Romul Nutiu, Gabriel Popa and Adalbert Luca, but became soon after, an independent creating artist.
His main themes covered the main socio-political events of the Cold-War in particular the race to conquer the space. His sculpture remind of space travellers, the flight or birds.
After his naturalistic debut as a student in the style of the Social Realist School he devoted his attention to abstraction. He developed an own language to communicate fear and anxiety caused by the Communist regime. His abstract forms became a silent critic to the system. The series of monads, the blinded mirrors and Dante's Universe series speak about isolation and censorship in an subtitle, abstract manner.
His later works of the 1980s and 1990s become more evident regarding their theme, the artist prefers the female body as central inspiration source of his work.
The work of Peter Jecza has a monumental appearance felt also in the small sized works. The impossibility to finance monumental projects and sculptures led to this condensed monumentality of each work, Peter Jecza used to say that a good sculpture indifferent of its size has to have an inner monumentality.
Peter Jecza remains one of the key sculptors of Romanian contemporary art alongside George Apostu and Paul Neagu, continuing the modernist paradigm of Constantin Brancusi.
Provenance
the artist's family collectionExhibitions
1979 Cluj,Iasi 1979 Cairo 1982 Cluj 1984 Köln 1 1990 Essen 1 1994 Timisoara 2 1997 Aachen 1999 Bucuresti 2 1999 Heidelberg 1 2000 Vienna 2006 Utrecht 2010 Kloster Neuburg 2013 Rueil Malmaison 2018 Museum of Art Craiova & Bucharest 2020 Novi Sad Danube DialoguesLiterature
Jecza - Sculptură/Skulpturen. Catalogul lucrărilor Werkverzeichnis 1963-2000, Editura Triade 2000 Constantin Prut, Regele-bronz. Monografie Peter Jecza, Editura Triade 2009 Timişoara. 15 fondatori ai artei contemporane, Editura Triade 2009 Sculptura timişoreană: continuitate şi disjuncţie, Editura Triade 2013Join our mailing list
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