Biography
Marian Zidaru

The sculptor Marian Zidaru was born on August 22, 1956, in Balotești, Ilfov. He began his art studies at the High School of Fine Arts in Craiova, graduating in 1977. He continued his art studies at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, in the Sculpture class of Professor Vladimir Predescu. Since 1981, the year he completed his university studies, he has participated with sculpture and drawing works in national and international group exhibitions. In 1985, he opened his first significant solo exhibition of sculpture and drawing titled "Remembrance" or "Bloody Christmas," organized at the Village Museum in Bucharest by the art critic and historian Anca Vasiliu.

 

Art can be considered "an initiatory path to salvation," as Zidaru himself says, insofar as the aesthetic experience is lived as a privileged stage in the "dialogue between man and the divine spirit." For the sacred is nothing but an intense, overwhelming experience of the real, which opens the human spirit to its universal dimensions.

 

In this way, the work of art can become an "agent object," a transmitter of spiritual energy, and thus a spiritual transformer of the viewer who opens themselves to contact with it, towards an expanded perspective and an unlimited understanding of the cosmic world. The true work of art is the concrete result of the dialogue between man and his "divine dimension," for in the work of art, the material undergoes a kind of sublimation, a transformation through the spirit of the artist in contact with the "Universal Inspirer."

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