Nutiu Romul 納蒂·羅穆盧斯 (1932-2012) Conceptual Art Tachisme Romanian

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Romul Nuțiu 納蒂·羅穆盧斯(July 28, 1932 – April 5, 2012) was one of the most constant artists dedicated to Abstraction from the Romanian art scene. Even though he had not left the country to work abroad along his life, his international career has tremendously risen since 2008, when he started a fruitful collaboration with Dr. Joana Grevers, art dealer and historian based in Munich, Germany.
Son of a forester and a housewife from Bilbor, Harghita, Nuțiu attended the primary school from Cașva village, Mures county in 1938. In 1940, following the Dictate from Wien, he takes refuge in Blaj and settles in Reghin, in 1941, where he graduated the Pedagogical High School 'Petru Maior' in the end of the 40s.
From 1951 to 1957, he studied at the Fine Arts Institute 'Ion Andreescu' in Cluj, with the professors Petru Feier and Teodor Harsia. Leon Vreme, Paul Sima, Mircea Balau, Vasile Pop Szilagy, Alexandru Cristea, Edwin Solomon and Sofia Kryzanowska were among his colleagues.
In 1957, he settled in Timisoara, where he participated for the first time at the Annual Fine Arts Salon, where he exhibited permanently since then. With the occasion of the salon opening, he met Catul Bogdan, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Petru Comarnescu and Romul Ladea. In 1958, he pursued a documentation and specialisation stage at the Fine Arts Institute 'Nicolae Grigorescu' in Bucharest, with professor Alexandru Ciucurencu.
In 1960, he started teaching at the Fine Arts High School in Timisoara, working besides the professor Julius Podlipny, and having a good padagogical collaboration with him.
In 1961, he also became a lecturer at the University in Timisoara, Graphics Department, until 1979. In the same year, he became a member of Romanian Artists Union.
In 1962, he got married to Felicia Bircea, also a teacher and they had a daughter, Simona [www.simonanutiugradoux.net/], born in 1966, who also became an active artist later on.
Starting from 1968, he was the author of a few important murals and decorative works along the country - the Railway Station Hall in Baile Herculane, with a ceramic mosaic, entitled 'Tradition, a monumental art project - 'Science, Literature and Art', transposed in colored cements technique, together with Gabriel Kazynczy (1973), an ensemble of two monumental works at the Orizont Hotel in Predeal, with the theme 'horizon' and 'the tree'(1977) or the 1986's monumental artwork 'Mapamond', in the al secco technique, designed for Timisoara International Airport and created along with the artist Lidia Ciolac.
In 1992, he was named professor at the Art Faculty of West University in Timisoara, at the Painting Department, until 1998, when he retired. He returned as a professor at Tibiscus University, the Design Faculty, and from 2002 he was an associate professor at the West University again.
In 2008, he started a fruitful collaboration with art dealer and historian Dr. Joana Grevers, owner of 418 Contemporary Art Gallery in Bucharest and he was constantly shown in solo shows and projects until his death in 2012.
His career evolved from the early sixties, when he was a young artist, eager to experience new ways of relating to painting and continued fluently until his death in 2012. Even though there are variations of style and appraisal, his painting had always been vivid, colourful and tenacious.
'The artistic biography of Romul Nuțiu lays under the sign of a happy exception', said art historian Ruxandra Demetrescu. 'In the 7th decade of the last century he was one of the first Romanian artists that had professed the Abstract Expressionism and/or European Informal. He remained faithful to abstraction in general and then he converted painting into object. The innovative character corresponds naturally in his case with that of an avantgardist (even in the literal sense of the word).' 'In the 70s, in Timisoara, a few artists acknowledge and try to change the moral hazard of political strategies. For Nuțiu, the personal input is abstract. The relationship history/present, the studio poetics, the new approach of the artistic medium, image as material are syntagms for what painting and object painting represent. In order to understand the concept in regard to the 70s slang, one must admit the decisive personal approach of painting.'

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