OCTAV GRIGORESCU

In the person and art of **Octav Grigorescu **coincided a typically avant-garde nostalgia for the primordial and worship of the elementary on the one hand, and a postmodernist taste for crepuscular delights and the presentiment of death, on the other. Born in 1933, Octav Grigorescu died in 1987 at the age of just fifty-four, but during his short lifetime he created a body of work that made a mark on twentieth-century Romanian art. A painter, engraver and fine art professor, Octav Grigorescu plunged into his archaeological, mythological and even everyday reveries, filtering in a subtle way echoes of Da Vinci, Poussin and Hans von Marees.

**Octav Grigorescu **(1933-1987) lived and worked in Bucharest, Romania, Venice, Italy and Hamburg, Germany. Selected exhibitions include:_Lost in the Moment That Follows, Ways of Collecting: Ovidiu Șandor _Collection, Kunsthalle Prague (2023); Secret Wing, Timisoara Art Encounters Biennale, Timisoara (2021); LORA TAU and other stories, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2020); _This part that seemingly needs to get out through a _place in my body, organised by Salonul de proiecte at Spike, Berlin (2020); Displacement and Togetherness, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever (2019); _COUNTERPOINT. An Octav Grigorescu – Georgeta Naparus _Retrospective, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (M.N.A.C.), Bucharest (2018); Une saison roumaine __(display of works from the museum collection), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); Les jours gigantesques, Plan B, Berlin (2017); The National Museum of Art, Bucharest (1984; 1960); The Biennial of European Graphic Art, Baden-Baden (1983); The Venice Biennale (1980; 1968); Edinburgh Art Festival (1971); Pratt Institute, New York (1969); Quatrième Biennale, Paris (1965).

Awards and distinctions: Cavaliere al merito della Repubblica Italiana (1983); ’‘Ion Andreescu’’ Prize, Romanian Academy (1966).

Courtesy Galeria Plan B