Ovidiu Avram is a name of resonance in the elitist circles of Romanian intellectuals and art connoisseurs… A distinctly personal universe has been brought to life, with its fluid and permeable frontiers between the real and the imaginary, a universe populated by ambiguous, familiar and yet enigmatic "characters", who constitute a heterogeneous mythology pregnant with the artist's individuality… The painter is fascinated by sumptuous materiality, he courts matter and seduces it through a laborious travail that reaches a remarkable level of loyalty in the optical-tactile representation of the prodigiously colored epidermis, as well as detailed with the obstinacy exemplifying the draughtsmanship of a miniaturist, but the poetic aspiration towards higher realms of symbolism's existence is admirably served by directing luminosity as a savant, the elaboration of which reveals the artist's veiled confession about a secret vocation of his: that of a magician.
Dr. Livia Drăgoi. Director of The Museum of Art, Bánffy Palace. Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
ARTICLES
2024
Salinas, Hajra. "Ovidiu Avram: From Teiuș Rails to Surrealist Trails". AATONAU. (Japan) (Online) January 11, 2024.
2023
L'Avenir. "Ovidiu Avram, le 'Dali roumain', expose à Amay". Available to download as a PDF Document. L'Avenir. (Belgium) (Online) February 2, 2023.
Ghidiu, Iulia. "Cluj Artist Ovidiu Avram Exhibits in Belgium". Făclia Ziar Independent De Cluj. (Romania) (Online) February 10, 2023.
Luca, Emil. "Pictorul clujean Ovidiu Avram la 70 de ani!" Clujul Cultural. (Romania) (Online) August 9, 2023.
News Cluj. "Maestrul Viziunilor Suprarealiste pictorul clujean Ovidiu Avram supranumit Salvador Dali al României". News Cluj. (Romania) (Online) August 20, 2023.
2021
Dr. Attila, Iakob. "Formă și spirit - Suprarealismul lui Ovidiu Avram". Tribuna Magazine. Nr. 443. (Romania) (Online) February 16-28, 2021.
2020
Baidoc, Diana Elena. "19 mai - Ziua Pictorilor | Interviu cu pictorul Ovidiu Avram, apropiat al monahului N. Steinhardt". Radio Renașterea. (Romania) (Online) May 19, 2020.
Alexa, Liviu. "Prieten apropiat al lui Nicolae Steinhardt, inclus ȋntre primii 1,000 de pictori suprarealiști ai lumii, artistul Ovidiu Avram este supranumit Salvador Dali al României". Ziar De Cluj. (Romania) (Online) July 29, 2020.
2018
Napoca News. "Vernisaj de excepție: 'Pictura clujeană - pictura europeană: Ovidiu Avram'. Au fost prezenți titanii picturii din Ardeal". Napoca News. (Romania) (Online) May 9, 2018.
Blag, Ovidiu. "Ovidiu Avram m-a invitat să cunosc irealul". Ovidiu Blag. (Romania) (Online) May 14, 2018.
Lăptoiu, Negoiță. "Pictura clujeană - pictura europeană: Ovidiu Avram". Făclia Ziar Independent De Cluj. (Romania) (Online) May 19, 2018.
Nasui, Cosmin. "Expoziții decembrie: Ovidiu Avram - 'Imagini elementare' și Marcel Guguianu - 'Remember' @ Art Yourself Gallery, București". Modernism Tabloid De Artă Și Stil. (Romania) (Online) December 3, 2018.
Mediafax. "Art Yourself Gallery, expozițiile lunii decembrie: 'Imagini elementare și 'Remember'". Mediafax. (Romania) (Online) December 6, 2018.
2015
Luca, A. Emil. "Fantasticul artist clujean, Ovidiu Avram, a câștigat Bienala de Arte 2015 de la Tivoli". Ziarul Mesagerul De Sibiu. (Romania) (Online) November 11, 2015.
Luca, A. Emil. "Fantasticul artist clujean, Ovidiu Avram, a câștigat Bienala de Arte 2015 de la Tivoli". Monitorul De Cluj. (Romania) (Online) November 12, 2015.
Mocian, Adnana. "Pictorul ardelean Ovidiu Avram, mai spiritual ca niciodată: 'Decât să te consulți cu clienții tăi, mai bine te consulți cu spiritele'". Clujul Cultural. (Romania) (Online) December 6, 2015.
2013
Pădurean, Claudiu. "Salvador Dali de România, Clujeanul Ovidiu Avram este unul dintre cei mai reprezentativi pictori români care abordează o manieră suprarealistă". România Liberă. Available to download as a PDF Document. (Romania) February 6, 2013.
Ţuculescu, Radu. "Să visăm suprarealist ȋmpreună cu Ovidiu Avram!". Revista Diaspora. Anul II, Nr. 17. Available to download as a PDF Document. (Romania) October, 2013.
2010
Fartușnic, Adina. "Ovidiu Avram forțează granița picturii de lumină dincolo de spațiul fantastic". Servus Cluj. Anul I, Nr. 40. Available to download as a PDF Document. (Romania) October 8, 2010.
2008
Constantinescu, Radu. "Ovidiu Avram (I): Pururi altul, dar mereu același". Ziarul Financiar. (Romania) (Online) March 28, 2008.
Constantinescu, Radu. "Ovidiu Avram (II): Cluj - Köln și retur". Ziarul Financiar. (Romania) (Online) April 4, 2008.
2003
Mentasti, Karsten. "Auf der Suche nach Gleichgewicht. Ausstellung mit Ölbildern des Rumänen Ovidiu Avram in der Rom-Art-Galerie". Braunschweig Zeitung. (Germany) August 21, 2003.
2002
Petrișor, Dorin. "Fugarul". Clujeanul. Available to download as a PDF Document. (Romania) April 16-22, 2002.
2000
Schönberger, Barbro. "Mystische Zeichen untergehender Welten. Rom-Art-Galerie zeigt Olzeichnungen des rumänischen Künstlers Ovidiu Avram". Braunschweig Zeitung. (Germany) January 22, 2000.
1996
Tils, Dirk. "Heitere Stilleben und Alpträume, Ovidiu Avram und Ferenc Deák in der Rom-Art-Galerie". Feuilleton. (Germany) February 17, 1996.
REVIEWS
2023
Dr. Attila, Iakob. Curator at The Museum of Art, Bánffy Palace. Cluj-Napoca, Romania. President of The Romanian Writers' Union - The Cluj-Napoca Branch and Regular Contributor to the Tribuna Cultural Magazine. "Ovidiu Avram: Idola Theatri". The Museum of Art, Bánffy Palace. Cluj-Napoca, Romania. (Online) July 19, 2023.
2012
Ostahie, Corneliu. Romanian Poet and Art Critic. "Ovidiu Avram - Rătăcirile și regăsirea unui sceptic de cursă lungă". Artindex A Romanian Art Review. (Online) August 5, 2012.
2008
Dr. Petrescu, Liviu. Professor of Comparative Literature and Vice President at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Director of the Sextil Pușcariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History in Cluj-Napoca. Critic, Literary Historian and Essayist. "Artists of Today". Review included in the "Lexikon der Phantastischen Künstler", "The Lexicon of Fantastic Artists", written by the Austrian Curator, Author, Editor of Art Publications and Co-Founder of The Phantastenmuseum in Vienna Professor Gerhard Habarta. Available to download as a PDF Document. 2008.
2006
Dr. Drăgoi, Livia. Director of The Museum of Art, Bánffy Palace. Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Available to download as a PDF Document. 2006.
1997
Dr. Petrescu, Liviu. Professor of Comparative Literature and Vice President at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Director of the Sextil Pușcariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History in Cluj-Napoca. Critic, Literary Historian and Essayist. "Artists of Today". Review for Art Addiction, The Medial Global Art Annual. (Online) 1997.
1994
Dr. Petrescu, Liviu. Professor of Comparative Literature and Vice President at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Director of the Sextil Pușcariu Institute of Linguistics and Literary History in Cluj-Napoca. Critic, Literary Historian and Essayist. "Ultimul Gnostic". Review of Ovidiu Avram's work. Available to download as a PDF Document. 1994.
1984
Zoica, Iosif. Romanian Author and Orthodox Priest. "Plasticianul Ovidiu Avram și Lupta cu Îngerul". Review of Ovidiu Avram's work. Available to download as a PDF Document. 1984.
1982
Dr. Steinhardt, Nicolae. Romanian Author, Literary Critic, Essayist, Jurist, Publicist and in the latter part of his life an Orthodox Monk. "Oglinda vrăjită a realului". Review of Ovidiu Avram's work. Available to download as a PDF Document. 1982.