Material: marble, threaded iron and walnut wood.
Artwork dimensions : Height/Width/Depth : 40 x 23 x 14 cm.
Year of creation: © 2022
This is a unique work
"Lesson about the cube", about the understanding of contemporary art, by the fact that perfection for the creator will never overlap with the perfection imagined by the receiver.
Nikita Stanescu
The lesson about the cube
A piece of stone is taken,
he carves with a chisel of blood,
shines with Homer's eye,
it is scraped with rays
until the cube comes out perfectly.
After that they kiss the cube countless times
with your mouth, with the mouth of others
and especially with the infanta's mouth.
After that a hammer is taken
and suddenly a corner of the cube crumbles.
Everyone, but absolutely everyone will say:
- What a perfect cube that would have been
if it hadn't had a broken corner!
The dominant symbol of the poem is Homer's eye. Starting from the blind poet, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, it is suggested the moment when the work is felt with all the other senses in order to be understood, not just read.
Material: River stone.
Artwork dimensions : Height/Width/Depth : 52 x 35 x 22 cm.
Weight: 35 kg + pedestal 17 kg
Year of creation: © 2018
This is a unique work
Technique: direct carving with traditional tools.
There is no greater happiness than birth, when the mother feels like God.
"Being born is an extraordinary event. I do not recover from this incident even now "- quoted from Marin Sorescu.
The pride of being a mother and the admiration for the miracle of birth.
Admiration for the miracle of birth
The mother's warm hand on the head
An inner flame keeps the maternal connection alive
The negative mark on the right side of the image of my sculpture is the mark left by the husband's head, more gone, hunting, working or elsewhere.
Artwork dimensions : Height/Width/Depth : 125 x 33 x 50 cm.
Year of creation: © 2022
This is a unique work
The message of my sculpture: Wars, like the one now in Ukraine, have their roots in the discretionary power of a leader.
Whoever climbs the steep steps of the power tower to reach the top and settles in the seat of power, cheers with the sweet taste of victory and becomes a lone wolf.
The processes of personalization of power have deep roots and political, psychological and cultural motives that impose the cult of personality.
It has the feeling that it is taking root but they do not find the juice necessary for durability and the leader's chair is in a precarious position, ready to collapse at any time.
According to Maslow, “power based on forcing, coercion and fear has a limit, it forces man to be obedient, but it immobilizes him, removes him, alienates him from the interests and goals that should be achieved, makes him think of revenge, decreases productivity, job satisfaction.”
These consequences dig deep into the root of power that inevitably collapses.
Artwork dimensions : Height/Width/Depth : 79 x 12 x 10 cm.
Weight 13 kg.
Material: marble, carved.
Year of creation: © 2022.
Technique: direct carving with traditional tools.
This is a unique work
After Orpheus loses Eurydice for the second time, because he did not manage to bring her back to life, not respecting the condition set by the gods not to look back, he, unconsoled, isolates himself and spends his time singing from the lyre, on Mount Haemus.
The Thracian poet sang so beautifully that he made all the trees gather around him, beasts and rocks gathered around him following him (Ovid, "Metamorphoses", book X).
Artwork dimensions : Height/Width/Depth : 77 x 46 x 12 cm.
Weight 46 kg.
Material: marble.
Year of creation: © 2021.
Technique: direct carving with traditional tools.
This is a unique work
According to legend, Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus, dies at their wedding being bitten by a snake. Orpheus prays to the gods to allow him to save her, descending into hell to bring Eurydice back to life.
The gods allow him to try, but on one condition - he does not have to look back at his wife who is following him. Orpheus respected this condition until the threshold of hell; but when he was ready to cross the fatal frontier, driven by the fear and impatience of love, he looked back. At that moment, the gods are faithful to their cruel promise, and Eurydice is pulled back into darkness and thus loses his wife a second time.
This last passage is the moment in my sculpture.
I sculpted Eurydice with her body shape in negatives because she is just an illusion, fixed on Orfeu's emotional pain.
