Eugen Ciucă; 27 February 1913 – 26
September 2005) was a contemporary Romanian-American artist known for his
monumental sculptures, vivid paintings and drawings of delicate feminine
figures. He spent the most successful years of his career in Italy, where he
created many works inspired by the Divine Comedy and its author Dante
Alighieri. Ciucă's art has been displayed in nearly 100 exhibitions across
Europe and the USA. Work by Mr. Ciuca is in nine museums around the
world including the Gerald R. Ford museum.
After the war, Ciucă set up a studio in Bucharest where
he worked until leaving Romania in 1968. He also taught Anatomy Drawing at the
University of Bucharest and was Director of the Monumental Sculpture Art Studio
of Fondul Plastic, UAP, Bucharest (1958-1960).
He held the first Romanian open-air exhibition on Calea Victoriei (1957) and
designed The Festive Column (1964), a 20 m high concrete and stone monument
that stands in Herăstrău Park, Bucharest. His major Romanian exhibition at Sala
Dalles (1965), which coincided with the 700-year anniversary of Dante’s birth,
brought Ciucă notoriety and international recognition.
In 1967 he was invited to Padua to build Monument to Dante in Pontelongo.
Shortly after that he had two one-man exhibitions in Padua and Rome and was a
major exhibitor at the Palazzo Al Valentino in Torino.
The following year he represented Romania for the International Symposium of
Sculpture Forma Viva in Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) with the wooden sculpture
inspired from Romanian folk art, The Archaic Column (1968).
Prompted by growing international success and the hardship and lack of
opportunities in communist Romania, Ciucă left his homeland in 1968. He first
moved to Venice, where he set up a studio and continued to participate in many
individual and joint exhibits. His work was widely sought after by many private
collectors.
Ciucă became a US citizen in 1975, two years after establishing a residence and
studio in Long Island, NY. A year later, during the festivities dedicated to
the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, his sculpture, Universal Harmony,
was put on display at the White House in Washington, DC and still remains in
the collection of the Gerald R. Ford Museum.
In 1976 a series of 220 of Ciucă's paintings and sculptures dedicated entirely
to Dante Alighieri were on exhibit for four months at the tomb of the poet at
Chiostro Di Dante in Revenna.[2]
He kept working and traveling between Italy and the US for many years. In 1984,
he moved his NY residence to Jackson Heights - Queens and his Italian residence
to Cappricio – Padua. He retired permanently to Jackson Heights in 1989, where
he continued to work in spite of his old age.
He has done work for the White House and the Vatican, and is considered the founder of art's fourth dimension
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