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