Sorin Ilfoveanu (born May 23, 1946, in Câmpulung Muscel) is a Romanian painter, designer and university teacher.Grife/Bark/Blazer/Ilfoveanu, Chronology and University Activity, page 101-103 Ed. Victor B. Victor 2002
Education From 1953 to 1964, Ilfoveanu attended Ion Brătianu High School in Pitești, where his colleagues included Daniel Turcea. From 1964 to 1970, he studied at the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest (now the Bucharest National University of Arts), in the class of Corneliu Baba, with Liviu Lăzărescu as assistant. His fellow students included Mihai Cismaru, Ștefan Câlția, Doina Moisescu Herivan and Sorin Dumitrescu. His teachers included Eugen Schileru in art history, Gheorghe Ghițescu in anatomy and Simion Iuca in engraving. In 1971, he became a member of the Romanian Union of Fine Artists.
Academic career From 1992 to 1996, he was head of the painting department at the Bucharest National University of Arts. From 1996 to 2000, he served as dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Bucharest National University of Arts. From 2004 to 2006, he was rector of the Bucharest National University of Arts.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions 1968 – Art Museum, Pitești 1975 – Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca 1985 – National Museum of Art, BucharestIlfoveanu exhibition catalog, Painting and Drawing, National Art Museum, Bucharest, 1985 1987 – Marais Gallery, Paris 1988 – French Institute, Bucharest 1993 – Artexpo Gallery, National Theatre, Bucharest 1994 – Romanian Cultural Centre, Vienna 1999 – Maculata Conceptie/Maculata Conception, with Ştefan Agapian and Adrian Ilfoveanu, Romanian Museum of Literature, BucharestExhibition Catalog of Maculata Conception, Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest 1999. 2001 – National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest 2001 – M.M.G. Gallery, Tokyo 2002 – Codex Ilfoveanu, Apollo Gallery, deINTERESE Gallery and U.A.P., Bucharest 2002 – Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu 2002 – Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca 2011 – Drawings 2008–2011, AnnArt Gallery, BucharestExhibition Catalogue Sorin Ilfoveanu "Drawings 2008-2011", AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest; 2011 – Ilfoveanu Painting, Sala Dalles, Bucharest
Group exhibitions 1969 – Astra Gallery, Bucharest 1977 – Voos-Bergen, Norway 1978 – International Art Biennial, Venice, Italy 1982 – Valparaiso Biennial, Chile 1984 – I.M.S. Gallery, Oslo 1986 – Cagnes-sur-Mer International Festival, France 1987 – Orizont Gallery, Bucharest 1988 – Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea 1988 – Volda Gallery, Norway 1989 – Arnhem Gallery, Netherlands 1995 – Art Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden 1997 – Tegnerfobundet Hall, Oslo 1997 – Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation, United Arab Emirates 1997 – Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 1998 – Transfiguratii, Mucsarnok, Budapest 2000 – Jungersted & Brostrom Gallery, Copenhagen 2002 – Littman & White Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2009 – Saga Ilfoveanu, with Ana-Ruxandra, Adrian and Nicu Ilfoveanu, ArtSociety Gallery, Bucharest 2009 – Mitologie Soggettive, Rocca Paulina, Perugia, ItalyExhibition Catalogue Umbria: Terra d'incontri - Mitologie Soggettive, Rocca Paulina Perugia, Sorin Ilfoveanu, 2009 2010 – ZOOMANIA.RO, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
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Bibliography Exhibition Catalogue Sorin Ilfoveanu "Drawings 2008 - 2011", AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest; "Sorin Ilfoveanu Atelier 1995-2010" Editura UNARTE și Asociația pentru Artă Ilfoveanu, 2011/"Sorin Ilfoveanu 1995-2010 Workshop" Printing House for the Arts Ilfoveanu UNARTE Association, 2011; Grife/Bark/Blazer/Ilfoveanu, Ed. Victor B. Victor 2002 Artists workshops in Bucharest, Sofin Ilfoveanu, metaphysical interrogations of artist Victor Neumann, page 65 Noimediaprint Ed 2008/ Ateliere de artisti din București, Sofin Ilfoveanu, Interogațiile metafizice ale artistului de Victor Neumann, pagina 65 Ed. Noimediaprint 2008 Sorin Ilfoveanu, Drawings (1994–2007), published by the Association for Art Ilfoveanu, preface of the book-presentation by Cristian Robert Velescu, 2008/ Sorin Ilfoveanu, Desene (1994–2007), Editată de Asociația pentru Artă Ilfoveanu, prefață-prezentare a cărții de Cristian Robert Velescu, 2008 Exhibition Catalogue Ilfoveanu Saga, ArtSociety Gallery, Bucharest, 2009/Catalogul Expoziției Saga Ilfoveanu, Galeria ArtSociety, București, 2009 Exhibition Catalogue Umbria: Terra d'incontri - Mitologie Soggettive, Rocca Paulina Perugia, Sorin Ilfoveanu, 2009 Barbosa, Octavian, Dicționarul artiștilor români contemporani, Editura Meridiane, București, 1976, p. 241-242 Sorin Ilfoveanu. Colors and metaphors, Meridians House, Bucharest, 1983/Sorin Ilfoveanu. Culori și metafore, Editura Meridiane, București, 1983 Catalogul Expoziției Ilfoveanu, Pictură și Desen, Muzeul Național de Artă, București, 1985/Ilfoveanu exhibition catalog, Painting and Drawing, National Art Museum, Bucharest, 1985 Sorin Ilfoveanu, Dicționar de arta modernă și contemporană, Constantin Prut, Ed. Univers enciclopedic 2002 Sorin Ilfoveanu, Albumul, L'art Roumain, Répères Contemporains, p. 20, auteur Constantin Prut, Ed. Union des Peintres de la Roumanie, 1995 Sorin Ilfoveanu, Exhibition Catalog of Maculata Conception, Museum of Romanian Literature, Bucharest 1999.
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