19. Ballad for Orpheus (II) [2002]

Sorin Ilfoveanu has created, throughout time, a cyclical work in which we distinguish landscapes, portraits or compositions featuring symbolic characters. The shape is the means through which the artist coordinates and articulates the visual; and the repetition is used to emphasize symbols. Ilfoveau proposes an art for the already initiated ones, for those eager for knowledge and for those who have already acquired the precepts of his semiotics. The artist becomes an accomplished master of the construction of shapes and proposes more versions of the human-nature, human-animal relationship. The fascinating intersections of straight and circuit lines, bland or incisive narratives that make up the affective narrative of his work are embodied in a plethora of character-signs. The female character appears in his creation as a graphic element who tends to go beyond the boundaries of the canvas. Most of the time, one or more incisive animal presences interweave the artist's compositions, being directly associated with the human plane. Ilfoveanu sketches the woman naked, stripped of all non-essential artifice. In the present work, the artist sketches the majesty of the beauty of the peacock, highlighting the telluric identity of the bird by assigning ambivalent metaphors. "Line Lace" from which the peacock is created, as the artist names it, leads to the permanence and recording of the feelings of a plastic sign raised to the level of a symbol. This work continues the consecrated series by Sorin Ilfoveanu to ballads. This time, he focuses his attention on the Greek god Orpheus, virtuoso lyre player, whose song enchanted all living creatures and all the elements of nature. Descendant of the goddess of epic genre and eloquence, Calliope, but also of the god of light and the arts, Apollo, Orpheus will earn in history the title of accomplished artist.

References

DEAC, Mircea, "Sorin Ilfoveanu. Culori și metafore" ("Sorin Ilfoveanu. Colours and metaphors"), Sport-Turism Publishing House, Bucharest, 1983. MOCANU, Aurelia, "Ilfoveanu", Square Media Publishing House, Bucharest, 2002. The catalogue "Ilfoveanu. Grife / Bark Blazer", Victor B Victor Publishing House, Bucharest, 2002.

Dimensions

width 140 cm, height 190 cm

Description

acrylic on canvas, signed and dated upper centred, in black, "Ilfoveanu 2002"

Dating

2002

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