Maxim Corciova
sculptures
ARCHETYPUS
Maxim Corciova
sculptures
ARCHETYPUS
| GENESIS | bronze | 17 cm x 2 cm x 7,5 cm
Maxim Corciova’s shapes, backed by apparently friendly materials
(and why would wood and bronze be friendly?) are, at least at the first
sight, very domestic, welcoming and relaxing at the same time.
Volumes that may describe anything between a noble cup and an
uterus, chairs in various shapes, serving perhaps an ancestor’s rest
or a royal vocation, invented images of some ancient devices and,
conclusively, an arch-boat. However, no shape is definite but “bitten”
or deformed by some detailed elements, clearly adding new meanings.
The importance of a detail achieved by cutting out or attaching steps
which obviously originate in safety elements from peasant buildings
by the Danube side leads to the artist’s philosophical space and the
intelligent play of his sculptures shapes, as if they were echoes.
At the same time, the wooden shapes may tempt one into poetic
interpretations (for instance the potential letters of the divided wall of
the arch-boat) or images of the most exact sheep breeding activities,
bronze may equally generate the joy of the eye in its strange shapes or
memories from Thracian times about a history which one would guess
rather than feel. The ultimate sensation is that of fully-functional
natural universe with a primordial rural content however welcoming
only for those who do not forget that it is essential to make an effort
just as it is to initiate. A tame mistery.
to Mircea Doru Mares | art critic | Bucharest | March 2009
| ARCA | bronze | 16 cm x 8 cm x 6 cm | N.N. | bronze | 19 cm x 8,5 cm x 8 cm
| BARCA | bronze | 22 cm x 8 cm x 5 cm | TRON | bronze | 4 cm x 4 cm x 10 cm
| TURN 1 | bronze | 5 cm x 2,5 cm x 19 cm
| TURN 2 | bronze | 6 cm x 3,5 cm x 19 cm
| BARCA | wood | 142 cm x 30 cm x 25 cm
| ARCA | wood | 50 cm x 23 cm x 57 cm
| REGE | wood | 24 cm x 17,5 cm x 112 cm
| TRON | wood | 32 cm x 34 cm x 61 cm
Maxim Corciova
VITA
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
1973 born in Romania
1991 - 1995 study of human medicine
Bucharest, Romania
1995 - 1999 study of pedagogy –
fine arts, diploma,
Bucharest, Romania
2000 - 2003 study of
fine arts – sculpture at
the “Alanus Hochschule“,
Alfter / Bonn, Germany
since 2003
independent artist
Maxim Corciova works and lives in
Germany and Romania
2000 Romanian Embassy,
Bonn, Germany
since 2001
permanent exhibition
at the private collection
“von Herz“, Berg. Gladbach,
Germany
2003 projekt “Bayerstraße“,
Bonn-Hersel, Germany
2007 Kontrastfilm, Mainz, Germany
2007 Galerie Laik, Koblenz,
Germany
2008 Galerie Laik, Koblenz
Germany
2008 Galerie artclub, Köln,
Germany
2009 AAF Bruxelles, Belgium
(Galerie Laik)
2009 Lille Artfair, France
(Galerie Laik)
| NAVA | wood | 110 cm x 25 cm x 39 cm
fotos of the bronze sculptures: Thomas Vollmar, www.thomasvollmar.de | grafik-design: Sebastian Weiler, www.haawei-net.de
preamble translation: Mariela Neago
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