Gallery sculptor Liviu Bora

Each has a universe, a world. Here is my world, choices and consequences. Since you're here not only to thank you that you have stopped a moment to read my words carved in the shapes, light and color. I do not know where is the beginning, if we chose and I was elected, the fact is that I always liked the shapes and tried to make in how we perceived it.Carve wood with predilection, I like his heat and the relationship you have to create him. Papier-mache is another technique that fits the themes they address and therefore use it often. I fold the technique if you feel and if the theme supports. Mask Commedia dell'arte mask decorative and I was always concerned, masks were among my first work and probably will be among the last. Subject clown came naturally as a fulfillment of Commedia dell'arte character of Harlequin in ronde-bosse. Nude and torso are themes that hide in them eternal feminine charm, inexhaustible and always contemporary. Chess, the game that art is a contraposition of good over evil, night terrors with quiet day is a theme that brings in a fantastic blend harmoniously personje.
After all no matter the technique, no matter the topic, no matter the current.
The only thing that matters is that when you leave this site to be richer with a moment of joy.

Cluj-Napoca,Transilvania,Romania

 

1985-1988 Art School Cluj-Napoca

Collective Exhibitions

1990-The Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art - Del Bello Gallery  of Toronto
1990 -  Exhibition Gallery Bastion of Cluj-Napoca
2011 – Pour femme by Dorin Negrau  Exhibition  –02.03-30.03 The ARC Bucharest, 11.04.-06.05 Cafepedia Bucharest,08.06-24.06 Maison Maitresse Store
 
Personal Exhibitions

1994 -  Alien faces- Students Cultural House Cluj-Napoca
1995 - Cube - Puck Puppet Theatre of Cluj-Napoca
1997 - Sculpture - National Theatre of Targu Mures
2010 - Mask - Cluj-Napoca Maison Maitresse Store
2011 - The story of walnuts - Cluj-Napoca Maison Maitresse Store

 Collaborations

1994 -1996, 2005 - 2006 - sculpture dolls Puck Puppet Theatre of Cluj-Napoca
1995 - until now - commedia dell'arte masks for the students of the Faculty of Theatre of Cluj-Napoca
1999 - commedia dell'arte masks for the show Arlecchino's happening, directed by Mona Chirila - National Theatre of Targu Mures
1999 - commedia dell'arte masks for the show Saragosa - 66 days, directed by Alexander Dabija - Odeon Theatre Bucharest
2005 -  dolls for the show Europe cabaret, directed by Aleksandar Dundjekovic - Hungarian Theatre of Cluj-Napoca
2005 -  scenery for the show Micimacko, directed by Ildiko Kovacs - Puck Puppet Theatre of Cluj-Napoca
2006 - commedia dell'arte masks for the show Arlechino & Co., directed by Gelu Badea - Theatre of Baia Mare
2007 - puppets for the show Quartet, directed by Tompa Gabor - Hungarian Theatre of Cluj-Napoca

Plastic. Maitresse Maison, January-February: The Story of walnut
  by Demostene Sopfron, January 26, 2011
  

It's a fascinating story, one that introduces us to a world unknown to us, more specialists. Is the universe proposed by sculptor Alan Bora, a name that we are already familiar. We as the main reference points of artistic experiences to be found in collective exhibitions (The Annual International Exhibition of Miniature Art, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, 1990; Gallery Bastion, 1990), in the personal ('Alien Girl', House of Culture students, 1994, 'Cube' Puppet Theatre 'Puck', 1995 'Sculpture', National Theatre Tirgu Mures, 1997, 'Mask', Maitresse Maison, 2010), collaborations with prestigious Puppet Theatre 'Puck' Cluj-Napoca (1994 - 1996, 2005 - 2006), the National Theatre in Tirgu Mures (show 'Harlequin's happening', directed by Mona Chirila), Odeon Theatre in Bucharest ('Saragosa - 66 days ", directed by Alexandru Dabija), Hungarian State Theatre Cluj - Napoca (show 'Cabaret Europe', 2005, directed by Aleksandar Dundjekovic; show 'Quartet', directed by Gabor Tompa, 2007), the Municipal Theatre of Baia Mare (show 'Harlequin & Co', directed by Gelu Badea, 2006). I remembered not by chance, I remembered that Alan should be pursued through the Bora and diversity of his artistic activities. One of the classic approaches are not missing and then talking about commediei dell'arte masks, and simplified forms and went down to essences. Adherence to the concepts of Brancusi, the materialization that captures at first sight.
That is why I am convinced that by Brancusi among them Alan's match Bora, and I quote, "is the true path to direct carving sculptures, and the worse for those who do not know how to walk. After all, carving direct or indirect means nothing, it only counts them. " And it did mean a fascinating story of not missing portraits and allegorical figures - Igor, Fish Golden Serpent San Idol (Tapu), Venus Kanyo, King, Clown, Kios Venus, Girl with birds in her hair, Idol (Miki ) caryatid, cry, Fleurs, Shadow, spin, green leaf - so many perfect performances, symbols, references and clear message expressed.
Overlapping man - artist gives the sixteen works - should be recorded and photographs that accompany and enrich artistic exhibition - relevant data on walnut trees King rightly considered the crown massive, powerful trunk, bark smooth, gray, dark green leaves and large aromatic. It uses the story walnut furniture industry, automotive, aerospace, shipbuilding, food, weapons, uses the artistic (musical instruments) or the medicinal, ecological, one more reason to 'read' nut story closely. Written by an artist inspired, original, deeply.

Liviu Bora and wood carving
  Alexandra Furnea
  http://www.romanialibera.ro
  http://www.casamea.ro
There is no man who has not reached the stage drama of the start of the game of chess Antonius Blok and Death in "The Seventh Seal," Ingmar Bergman's famous. Passionate art, however, will notice something else than a gesture of ultimate significance two players and the atmosphere of a bleak poetry. It's splendid chess pieces handled the characters, songs so expressive that they seem alive. Was it inspired by confronting the abyss between Antonius and inexpressible sculptor Alan Bora when he created his amazing set chess?
All I can say is that the artist made some songs that go well beyond the usual expression for conventional and queens and kings ponosiţilor. Tellingly titled "Warriors of Dracula" plays gets a life and identity of their characters become real. Thus, each game becomes a confrontation between two individuals competing land and players can deceive, even for an hour, that are engaged in a action can change the course of ordinary life. In this respect, sculptures Bora Liviu get involved in a complex set of sortilegii, revealing objects and everyday magic valences.
Chess set creation is only one aspect of the sculptor whose favorite material is wood (walnut, lime, yew, patinated, polished, stained, went through the artist-craftsman skilled). Author of fascinating series of masks, and various statues, but the furniture and objects, the artist stands by cultivating an original aesthetic. Using a complex plastic idiom, which is rooted in primitive imagery of the Gothic and the Baroque, Liviu Bora gives rise to works that have the power of spells. Iz ancient sculptor addresses topics such as "Apollo and Daphne", several nudes and characters such as clowns theater. For another, he works passionately with many theaters in the country, or making puppets or masks for different shows.
Liviu Bora is a unique artist, follower of most materials and "sensual" of fine arts. Sculptor turns a skilled craftsman of wood, treating it gently and removing from it the spirit of the forms that manages to carve. The viewer works Liviu Bora can not remain indifferent to the enormous expressive power them. Whether the masks, sculptures or pieces of chess with theme, artistic creations are evidence of the ability to enliven material by means of human achievement. Forms are put on different masks that can spread over the talent of the creator to give them a sense that can be grasped by the human eye. Liviu Bora is an inventor of chimeras, or truths, made tangible through the artist's desire to model representations of the world that is inside