FIGURATIVE PAINTERRadu Pulbere
Radu`s artwork makes the viewer to interact to a new reality, inspired by his unique way to see the world.
Painting reveals and communicates itself fundamentally by the manner of metaphysical and meta-narrative contents. The questions, what it represents or where it belongs, conceptually or stylistically, are outlying its intrinsic value and quality. My work refers to a moment in time, a privileged, personal, and private instant whose elements – pertaining to the figurative and physical dimension – surreptitiously give away a psychological dimension.
Radu Pulbere is a Romanian Contemporary artist who dis-assembles and re-assembles the elements that bring to life the scene on the surface of his paintings in an innovative way. His work enrolls in the traditional fine arts world, but, in the same time, it transgresses it. The artist is no longer a viewer translating objectively the reality, but he found a way to translate it in a personal manner, using new formulas and acting as he belongs to his new reality. (Silvia Suciu)
Radu Pulbere was born in 1963 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 1982-1986 he studied at the “Ioan Andreescu” Art Institute in Cluj-Napoca. Today, he is a PhD. Professor at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca. He lives and works in Cluj-Napoca. He is a contemporary artist who uses acrylic and oil for his paintings. In his artwork he makes the viewer to interact to a new reality, inspired by his unique way to see the world.
Radu Pulbere is member of UAP (Visual Artists’ Union in Romania) and the group PLATFORMA (Ioana Antoniu, Elian, Andor Kőmives & Radu Pulbere). He had solo exhibits in Romania, Holland and Italy. He has attended many group exhibitions in Romania, Poland, Holland and Italy.
Solo Shows:
2016 Radu Pulbere, Arcade 24 Art Gallery, Bistrița; Wanderings of the body, Museum of Art, Cluj- Napoca, RO;
2011 Holderlin, Ein Gesprach mit Bildern, Neuwerk Kunsthalle Konstanz, Germany;
2010 La Rosa di Nessuno, Galleria Spazio Mirionima, Macerata, Italy;
2008 Personal/Private, the Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2005 Painting, the Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
1997 Painting, The Boog Gallery, Ijsselstein, Holland;
1995 Painting, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
1994 The University of Zwolle, Holland;
1992 Painting, Covalenco Gallery, Geldrop, Holland;
1991 Gizenrooi Gallery, Geldrop, Holland.
Group Exhibitions (selection):
2017-2018 Essential Ludic, group exhibition with Ioana Antoniu, Elian and Andor Kömives, Art House Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2017 Oppening of the Painter’s Colony, Baia Mare, RO;
2016 Art in the Garden, Arcade 24 Art Gallery, Bistrița, RO;
2015 The Annual Art Show of the Visual Artists Union Gallery, The Museum of Art,
Cluj-Napoca, RO;
Art in The Garden, at the Botanical Garden of Jibou, RO;
2014 The School of Cluj, BWA Sokol Gallery for Contemporary Art, Nowy Sacz,
The Malopolska Art Center, Poland;
Safari Art Fair, Bucharest, RO;
MB Art Projects, Amsterdam, Holland;
2013 Romanian Painting Today: Spotlight on The Cluj School of Painting, Crouwel Art Space, MB Art Projects, Amsterdam, Holland;
Intact Space Gallery, The Brushes Factory, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
The Meeting Point International Biennale, Arad, RO;
2012 MB Art Projects, Amsterdam, Holland;
Salon on the Balcony, Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
InspirArt, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest, RO;
Hang ar Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2011 The Meeting Point International Biennale, Arad, RO;
2010 Fog/Bruillard, International Art Show at The Ioan Sima Museum, Zalău and
the Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2009 MNAC Bucharest, Group Show with acquisition, The National Museum for Contemporary Art, MNAC, Bucharest, RO;
Europa Artium;
Show of the School of Cluj, The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2008 NeoReal, Show of the School of Cluj, The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2007 Artists from Cluj, Group Show at Senso Gallery, Bucharest, RO;
The National Show of Painting and Sculpture, The Parliament Palace Bucharest, RO;
2005 ArtEast, Show of the School of Cluj, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
Show of the School of Cluj, Montecatini Terme Museum of Art, Italy;
I Love Painting, Show of School of Cluj at the Continental Hotel, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2004 Grey Pink, Show of School of Cluj, Visual Artis’ Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
Essentia, International Art Show, the Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
In the Mirror of Las Meninas, Art Show, the Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2003 The Line of View, Show of the School of Cluj, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
2002 Affirmative, Show of the School of Cluj in Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
Incontro a Roma, Gallery of the Academia di Romania, Rome, Italy;
2000 Liber Studiorum, Art Show, The Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
Painters from Cluj, The Culture Palace, Iași, RO;
1993 Romanian Art, the Zwolle University, Zwolle, Holland;
The Romanian Painting and Sculpture Showcase, The Dalles Hall, Bucharest, RO;
1992 Ecce Homo, Orizont Gallery, Bucharest, RO;
The Romanian Painting and Sculpture Showcase, The Dalles Hall, Bucharest, RO;
1991 Ecce Homo, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
1990 The Show of the Young Artists, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Cluj-Napoca, RO;
1988 The Youth Biennale, Baia Mare, RO;
The Romanian Painting and Sculpture Showcase, The Dalles Hall, Bucharest, RO;
The Mobile is the Photography, Visual Artists Union Gallery, Oradea, RO.
Works in Public collections: the Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca; The National Museum for Contemporary Art, MNAC, Bucharest, RO.
Works in private collections: Romania; Holland; Italy; Poland etc