Liviu Bora and wood carving
Alexandra Furnea
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There is no man who has not been touched by the dramatic scene 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 Liviu 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.