VINCENTIU GRIGORESCU
Geometrie Casuali I, 1973-1975, oil on canvas, 70×70 cm
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BIOGRAPHY
Vincentiu Grigorescu (1923 – 2012) studied architecture and arts in Bucharest. In the late 1940s, he dedicated himself to graphic design, becoming one of the leading creators of postal stamps. Driven by his constant struggle to break free from the impositions of Socialist Realism, he became drawn to geometric expression and abstraction.
In 1972, after participating in exhibitions abroad, he sought political asylum in Italy, where he went on to reside and work for forty years in Milan and Castelnuovo Magra (Liguria). He had never returned to Romania. During the 1970s and the 1980s, Vincentiu Grigorescu established a close collaboration with gallery owner Zita Vismara in Milan, who organized his most significant exhibitions from that period. Additionally, he held a major solo show in 1975 at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM) in Turin, curated by Angelo Dragone. He consistently garnered recognition from notable art critics such as Gillo Dorfles, Alberto Veca, Angelo Dragone, Ottorino Villatora, and Marzia Ratti, the director of CAMeC in La Spezia, Italy.
His collaboration with Marzia Ratti over the last two decades placed him within the realm of Italian Abstraction, aligning him conceptually with esteemed figures like Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, and Piero Manzoni. His works and interventions on canvas and other painting materials positioned him alongside the “triad” of Manzoni, Castellani, and Bonalumi.
Following his passing in 2012, his works featured the same year in the exhibition “Superfici Sensibili – Dialoghi con il Supporto,” curated by Marzia Ratti at CAMeC in La Spezia. This exhibition showcased a selection of renowned modern and contemporary Italian artists.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
MNAR (National Museum of Art), Bucharest, MNAC (Contemporary Art Museum), Bucharest, GAM (Galleria d’Arte Moderna), Torino, CAMeC (Centro d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia), La Spezia, MARe (Muzeul de Arta Recenta), Bucharest
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
E.G.Robinson, W. Rogers, F. Shakespeare, F. von Thyssen, M. Pierborg, S. Brody, L. Pomini, P. Capitini, F. Wojda and others
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogue ‘Art in Embassies Exhibition’, United States Embassy, Bucharest | Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., 2016
OEUVRES | Vincentiu Grigorescu, Fundatia Joana Grevers, Bucharest 2014
Dialoghi con il supporto. Territori di contatto fra percosi di ricerca. Dedicatto a Vincentiu Grigorescu. Marzia Ratti, 2012
Pensando alla “natura morta” | R. Crivelli, Galleria San Marco, Seregno 1985
Vincentiu Grigorescu | Alberto Veca, Vismara Arte Contemporanea, Milano 1980
Le geometrie casuali | Alberto Veca, Gala International – Attualita e informazione visiva, a. XIII, n.77, pg. 40-41, May 1976
Vincentiu Grigorescu | Gilo Dorfles, Galleria Vismara, Milano 1976
Vincentiu Grigorescu | Angelo Dragone, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Torino, Torino 1975
Vincentiu Grigorescu et sept autres artistes roumains | J. Pigeon, La libre belgique, 8 January 1974
Vincentiu Grigorescu: d’etonnantes tapisseries a Bruxelles | J. Pigeon, La libre belgique, 17 May 1974
Pittori e scultori romeni all Promotrice | La Stampa, 1 marzo 1969
SELECTED VIDEO
Le grande tele | Vincentiu Grigorescu, Solo Show, Cetate, 2016
Le tele II | Vincentiu Grigorescu, Solo Show, Bucharest, 2016
Le tele I | Vincentiu Grigorescu, Solo Show, Bucharest, 2015
SELECTED ARTICLES
Wiederentdeckung der rumänischen abstrakten Kunst | ADZ, Aida Ivan, September 2016
Vincenţiu Grigorescu la 418gallery | Revista Luceafarul, Iolanda Malamen, November 2015
418 Contemporary Art Gallery at Viennafair | Art Guide East, Kinga Hamvai, October 2014
Abstract si viu, cum e posibil | Contributors, Magdalena Marculescu, May 2014
Muzica formelor si culorilor | Cotidianul, July 2014
Romul Nutiu, Vicentiu Grigorescu si Diet Sayler sau mica pledoarie … | Artindex.ro, MC, June 2013
Vincentiu Grigorescu | Mostre d’arte, Corriere della sera, T.Trini. 1980
Mari astratti | Corriere della sera, Alberto Tommaso Galimberti, 1976
Pictori romani in “Spazio d’arte” | Olga Carasso, 1970
Plakat 1968 | Kultura Sztuka, Ignacy Witz, 1968
In einer Bukarester Ateliersiedlung | Thomas Ross, 1966
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Geometrie Casuali
418 Gallery, Munich
2016
Le grande tele
418 Gallery, Cetate, RO
Strati | Layers
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Bucharest
Le tele II
418 Gallery, Bucharest
2015
Le tele I
418 Gallery, Bucharest
2014
Vincentiu Grigorescu
Unicredit Project Expozitei F1 in collaboration with 418 Gallery, Bucharest
Vincentiu Grigorescu
Galleria Xenia of Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Budapest, HUN
2013
La Scoperta del Colore | Ultime Opere
Spazio Espositivo Liceo Artistico Statale della Spezia, Palazzo Comunale di Castelnuovo Magra, IT
2009
Generazione anni Venti
Castello di San Giorgio della Spezia, IT
2002
Works 1967-2001
Centro S. Allende della Spezia and Castello Doria di Porto Venere, IT
1996
Solo show
Galleria Arte Contemporanea, Lugano,
1985
Solo show
Galleria San Marco, Seregno – Milan, IT
1980
Vincentiu Grigorescu
Curated by Alberto Veca, Vismara Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
1976
Solo show
Curated by Gillo Dorfles, Vismara Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
1975
Solo show
Curated by Angelo Dragone, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin, IT
Solo show
Studio A, Milan, IT
1974
Solo show
Brussels, BEL
Other solo exhibitions before leaving Romania (1972)
Bucharest, Dusseldorf, Ala, Uppsala, New York, Lingkoping, Milan, Copenhagen, Biella, Bologna, Bruxelles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Wintermärchen
418GALLERY, Munich
2022
Worlds on Paper
418GALLERY, Munich
2018
Herbstausstellung
418 Gallery, Cetate – RO
2017
9 Years of Art | 9 Romanian Artists
418 Gallery, Bucharest
2014
Structure & Energy II | The Power of Abstraction
418 Gallery, Bucharest
2013
Structure & Energy I | The Need for Abstraction
418 Gallery, Bucharest
2012
Superfici Sensibili | Dialogo con il supporto
Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni
Curated by Marzia Ratti, CAMEC della Spezia, IT
Other group exhibitions
Rome, Milan, Turin, London, Geneva, Mexico, Moscow, Beijing, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, New Delhi, Montreal, Quebec, Bagdad, Sofia, Havana