Marian ZIDARU, (b. 1956, Balotesti), sculptor. In 1977 he graduated from the High School of Fine Arts, Craiova and in 1981 he graduated from the ”Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest - professors Vladimir Predescu and Marin Iliescu's class. Between 1991-1995 he was junior lecturer at the department of sculpture at the National University of Arts Bucharest. In 2011 received residency for two months in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1995 he won the ”Ionel Jianu” Award, ARA Distinction, in 1994 received ”Ludwig Forum” scholarship (Aachen, Germany) and in 1993 the ”Kulturreferat” scholarship (Munich, Germany). In 1987 he was awarded with Youth Prize offered by the Visual Artists' Union of Romania and in 1985 was awarded with 2nd Prize at the International Biennale of Drawing from Cleveland, England. In 1984 he received a scholarship from the Italian Cultural Institute and in 1982 received a scholarship for creation granted by the Visual Artists' Union of Romania. He has attended at numerous individual and group exhibitions, at symposiums, both in Romania and abroad.
Education:
1991 - 1995 Assistant Professor at National University of Arts Bucharest, Department of Sculpture
1977 - 1981 ”Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts, Bucharest
1973 - 1977 High School of Fine Arts, Craiova
Awards and Scholarships:
2011 - Residency (2 months, January – March), Dusseldorf, Germany
1995 - ”Ionel Jianu” Award, A.R.A. Distinction
1994 - ”Ludwig Forum” Scholarship, Aachen Germany
1993 - ”Kulturreferat” Scholarship, Munich, Germany
1987 - Youth Award granted by the Romanian Visual Artists' Union
1985 - 2nd Prize, International Biennale of Drawing, Cleveland, United Kingdom
1984 - Italian Cultural Institute Scholarship, Italy
1984 - Atelier 35 Award
1982 - Scholarship for creation granted by the Visual Artists' Union of Romania
1979 - ”Amphitheatru” Magazine Award
Personal Exhibitions:
2014 - ”Angels, Thrones, Lords”, Brancoveanu Palaces Cultural Center, Mogosoaia (with Victoria Zidaru), curator Erwin Kessler
2014 - ”Victim” – Drawings 1984 – 2014, (Part One) H’art Gallery, Bucharest
2014 - ”Victim” – Drawings 1984 – 2014, (Part Two) „Tipografia” Gallery, C.F.P. Bucharest
2011 - ”Glories in Venice”, ”Factor 92” Gallery, Bucharest (with Victoria Zidaru), curator Erwin Kessler
2011 - ”Living and working in Düsseldorf”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest (with Victoria Zidaru)
2010 - ”The dictatorship of flowers”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest (with Victoria Zidaru)
2010 - ”Back to Art”- Sculpture, D’Ancona - Budis Gallery, Bucharest, curator Erwin Kessler
2009 - ”Lords”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest (with Victoria Zidaru)
2008 - ”Seasons of Angels”, Pralong Gallery, Bucharest
2008 - Infantilis, Art House Gallery, Bucharest
2007 - ”Classic”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest
2006 - ”Annunciation”, Art House Gallery, Bucharest
2004 - ”The seasons", Anaid Gallery, Bucharest, (with Victoria Zidaru), curator Diana Dochia
2000 - ”Restoring Romanian Inside”, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest
2000 - ”The ladder of angels”, Romanian Cultural Institute, New York
2000 - ”The ladder of angels”, 49 Gallery, New York
1999 - ”The Revival”, ”Dimitrie Gusti” National Museum, Bucharest, curator Magda Carneci
1998 - ”The Fire”, National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Contemporary art room, (with Victoria Zidaru), curator Ruxandra Balaci
1998 - ”The Sign”, Constantin Brancusi Hall, Parliament Palace, Bucharest
1997 - ”The House”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
1996 - 1997 - ”The Story of Christmas”, Peles Castle, Sinaia
1996 - ”The Building”, J. L. Calderon Gallery, Bucharest
1994 - 1995 - ”Cleansing the Romania”, J. L. Calderon Gallery, Bucharest
1995 - ”Resurrection”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
1994 - ”Glory of the New Jerusalem”, Bacau Art Museum, Cluj Art Museum, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
1993 - 1994 - ”Glory of the New Jerusalem”, National Theatre Gallery, Bucharest
1993 - ”Glory of the New Jerusalem”, Ublacker, Haus Gallery, Munich
1993 - ”Kulturreferat”, studio, Feldafing, Germany
1992 - 1993 - ”Unsealing”, Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture Gallery, Bucharest
1992 - ”The Annunciation New Jerusalem”, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
1985 - ”Remembrance” or „Bloody Christmas”, Village and Folk Art Museum, Bucharest, curator Anca Vasiliu
1983 - ”Atelier 35” Gallery, Bucharest
Group Exhibitions:
2016 - ”The Extension.ro”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, curators Yana Smurova, Dan Popescu
2016 - ”The artist at 30s” [Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Installation], Ion Tuculescu, Ion Bitzan, Marin Gherasim, Florin Mitroi, Horia Bernea, Paul Neagu, Ion Grigorescu, Ion Barladeanu, Marian Zidaru, Mircea Roman, Gheorghe Rasovszky, Teodor Graur, Stefan Triffa, Anca Muresan, Ecaterina Vrana, Nicolae Comanescu, Gili Mocanu, Bogdan Vladuta, Roman Tolici, Suzana Dan, Dumitru Gorzo, Florin Ciulache, Vlad Nanca, Ovidiu Fenes, Codruta Cernea, Ioana Ursa, Stefan Ungureanu, Adrian Preda, George Anghelescu and Lea Rasovszky, The Cultural Center of Bucharest, curator Dan Popescu, Alexandru Davidian
2016 - ”Two by Two”, Electroputere Gallery, Craiova, with Teodor Graur, Adi Matei Cristian Raduta, Curator: Emilian Margarit
2015 - ”Into Black / Entering Black” [Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Objects, diary pages and Experimental sound] Lea Rasovzky, Yulia Nistor, Roman Tolici, Tara von Neudorf, Marian Zidaru, Dan Gavris and Ptere Sbt, Tipografia Gallery, C.F.P. Bucharest, curator Alexandru Davidian; ART ENCOUNTERS Biennial , Timisoara, Curator: Rainald Schumacher and Nathalie Hoyos
2013 - Sculpture / Architecture: Paul Neagu, Ovidiu Maitec, Peter Jakobi, Napoleon Tiron, Mircea Roman, Marian Zidaru, Liviu Russu, Alexandru Pasat and Titi Ceara, Tipografia Gallery, C.F.P. Bucharest
2011 - ”Glory”, Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy
2011 - Marian Zidaru & Gaste: Gucken Wir Mal/ Trans Plant, Atelier am Eck Dusseldorf curator Oliver Gather
2011 - Studioausstellung, Franz-Jurgens-Str.12, Haus 3, Dusseldorf, Germany
2011 - ”Bekannte Flugobjekte”, Meinersen, Germany
2011 - Bukarest-Dusseldorf, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus, Deutsch-Osteuropaisches Forum
2010 - ”L’echalier- Pârleazu”, Cloître des Biettes, Paris, curator Catalin Guguianu
2010 - ”Let’s take a look” - „gucken wir mal” (textile conversation) with Victoria Zidaru, Senta Connert, Ulrike Kessl and Julia van Koolwijk, Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest
2010 - ”Gucken wir mal”, with Senta Connert, Brancoveanu Palaces Cultural Center, Mogoșoaia
2010 - Sacred inductions into Romanian contemporary sculpture, Iasi, curator Corneliu Antim
2010 - Wood Sculpture (MNAC collection), Apostu, Bitzan, Calinescu – Arghira, Ceara, Ciobanu, Covrig, Crisan, Dup, Gorduz, Iliescu Calinesti, Maitec, Pasat, Parvu, Roman, Russu, Saptefrati, Tiron, Vlad, Zidaru, curator Mihai Oroveanu
2009-2010 - Itinerant exhibition ”... porky” National Dance Center, Bucharest, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, curator Erwin Kessler
2009-2010 - ”Art and Sacredness”, Art Gallery, Focsani, curator Alexandra Titu
2009 - ”Terra d’incontri-Mitologie Soggettive” - ”Rocca Paolina”, Perugia, (with Mircea Roman, Sorin Ilfoveanu, Victoria Zidaru, Gheorghe I. Anghel, Adrian Ilfoveanu, Ioan Iacob), curator Doina Mândru
2009 - ”Romanian Contemporary Artists “, 2R Art Gallery, London, curator Gavril Țărmure
2008 - ”Collaborates with New River Fine Art Gallery”, Monumental Art, Florida, U.S.A.
2008 - ”Architecture Biennale”, Romanian Pavilion, Venice
2007 - ”Etno Art”, I.C.R. Paris Gallery, France
2007 - ”Seasons of Angels”, H O Gallery, Korea
2007 - ”The Prodigal Son”, Lutheran University Minneapolis, Minnesota
2007 - ”Sculpture/Architecture”, Marian Zidaru, Victoria Zidaru, Ovidiu Maitec, Liviu Russu, Ovidiu ApetreiSimeza Gallery, Bucharest
2004 - ”South-East Europe Art Festival”, Thessaloniki, Greece
1996 - ”Experiment in Romanian Art after 1960 ”, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Artexpo, ¾ floor, curator Alexandra Titu
1994 - 1995 - Theme, National Art Museum, Bucharest, curator Ion Nicodim
1998 - ”Object-Subject”, special guests: Ion Bițan, Ion Nicodim, Doru Covrig, Romanian Museum of Literature, Bucharest
1998 - ”Zeitgenossiche rumanische Kunst Untergrund”, Leipzig, Germany
1997 - ”Bucharest nach ‘89 Ludwig Forum”, Germany
1995 - Venice Biennial, Romanian Pavilion, Italy
1994 - ”Europe ‘94”, Munich, Germany
1993 - ”Byzantium after Byzantium”, Instituto Romeno di Cultura, Venice
1991 - ”Sao Paolo International Art Biennale”, Brazil
1990 - ”Une Soirée à Paris”, France
1990 - ”Holzschnitt” (Wood Sculpture), Munich, Germany
1987 - ”Knights of melancholy” with Sorin Ilfoveanu; Stefan Caltia and Vladimir Zamfirescu, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, with text by Andrei Plesu
1985 - International Drawing Biennale, Cleveland, United Kingdom
1984 - Epipeda Gallery, Athens, Greece
1984 - Rijeka International Drawing Biennale
1983 - The Place – act and metaphor, Village and Folk Art Museum, Bucharest, curator Anca Vasiliu
