: B A R I L Fabrica de pensule Cluj Henri Barbusse 59-61 www.baril.ro, [email protected] Constantin FLONDOR

16.12.1936, Cernauti, Lives and work in Timisoara, Romania

Studies and Activity

1950-1954 - studied at the School of Fine Arts in Timisoara

1954-1960 - studied painting at the "Nicolae Grigorescu",

1962-1991 - Professor at the School of Visual Arts, Timisoara. Contribute to the development and support of educational program of Sigma Group, as a member of the group and director of high school (1969-1975).

1964 - Member of the Artists Union of Romania

1966 - co-founder of the group "1 +1 +1" (Stefan Bertalan, Roman Cotoșman Constantin Flondor) -study trip to East Germany, meeting with Robert Rehfeldt, painter, illustrator and mail-artist in East Berlin

1969 - co-founder of the group "Sigma" (Stefan Bertalan, Lucian Codreanu / mathematician / Constantin Flondor Ion Gaita, Elisei Rusu, Doru Tulcan).

1972 - study trip to East Germany "Bauhaus's footsteps" meeting with Marianne Brandt (student at Bauhaus) and dr.Hans Harksen in Dessau, a friend and supporter of Basil Kandinsky Bauhaus school.

1985 - co-founder of the group "Prolog" (Paul Gerasim, Horia Bernea, Constantin Flondor, Ion Grigorescu, Matei Lazarescu, Christian Paraschiv Horea Pastina and Mihai Sarbulescu)

1991 - professor at university, Faculty of Arts University of Timișoara (Dean 1996-1999).

1993-Visiting Professor at Sommermalakademie Beratzhausen Germany

2002 - Consultant Art Professor Faculty of Arts University of Timișoara

Solo exhibitions

1968 Solo Show, Gallery UAP Timisoara 1985 "Between Heaven and Earth - Notes for nostalgia I" Pro-Arte Gallery Lugoj 1987 Retrospective at 50, Dalles Hall Bucharest Museum Art Department Timișoara 1989, "... On the earth, the sky, the air, the whole world ..." exhibition at Iasi, Botosani, Bistrita, Arad 1995 "Notes on a Garden" Galleria 28 Timisoara 1996 'Garden of delights', French Cultural Center Timisoara Back at 60, Museum of Banat, Timisoara Art Department From Workshop I - The Pythagorean signs, Galleria 28 Timisoara 1997 Workshop II - Thoughts scattered Galleria 28 Timisoara In Workshop III - Collection Mail Art: 1972-1992, Galleria 28 Timisoara 1998 'Die des Gartens Wonnen, G.Hauptmann Haus, Düsseldorf, Germany 1999 Solo Show, Gallery CatacombaBucharest : B A R I L Fabrica de pensule Cluj Henri Barbusse 59-61 www.baril.ro, [email protected]

Notes ... The National Museum of Art Cluj. Solo Show, Gallery Bistrita 2000 "Family Office" Galleria 28 Timisoara "Between Heaven and Earth", National Museum Brukenthal 2002 Solo Show, Gallery Antiques Bucharest "Air" Arad Art Museum 2003 Solo Show, Bucharest Palaces Brancovan 2005 Solo Show with invited / book, "Flondor from 111 + Sigma "Prolog" gallery Curtea Veche, Bucharest Colloquium & Exhibition 'reflection and creation ", Faculty of Arts Timisoara Exhibition "Air and Light" "Galleria 28" Timișoara 2006 "Spring it is but a copy of ..." Timisoara gal.Casa Lima 2007 'Nostalgia garden "villa Barabas, 2011 Flondor 75, Galeria 28, Galeria Jecza, Galeria Calina Timisoara 2012 Sifting, Baril Gallery Cluj Napoca

Exhibition with "1 +1 +1 Group"

1967 - 1969 participation as a member of the art salons 111 Timisoara 1968 "Five artists from Timișoara" Kalinderu Hall Bucharest Curator: Eugene Schileru, Decorative Art Triennale, Milan, Italy, Commissioner exhibition: Ion Frunzetti, 1969 Konstruktive Kunst: Elemente und Prinzipien, Nürnberg - Germany Commissioner exhibition: Octavian Barbossa, Constructivist art. Henje Sonja Gallery, Oslo, Norway.

Exhibitions and activities within the group "SIGMA"

1969 - 1974 participation in the group Sigma Salons Art Timisoara 1970 Group Exhibition Sigma county Helios Gallery Timisoara, 1973 art festival Cibinium Galleries Sirius Sibiu 1974 "Art and Power" New Gallery Bucharest, curator: Dan Haulica UNESCO arts week, Bastion Hall Timisoara 1975 "Art and the City" New Gallery Bucharest, organizers: Anca Arghir and Michael trowel, 1978 "Study I", Gallery School of Art Timisoara Bastion + coordinators: Paul Gherasim, Ion Grigorescu, Coriolan Babeţi, film screenings + installation

1991 'artistic creation and synchronization european Timișoara years 60-70 " Banat Museum and Gallery 3/4 TNBucurești, curated by Ileana Pintilie.

Exhibitions and symposiums in the group "Prolog"

1985 Symposium on Tescani, painting apple orchard in bloom and the founding group "Prolog" (Paul Gherasim, Constantin Flondor, Horia Pastina, Christian Paraschiv and Mihai Sarbulescu) Prolog I - apple blossom, Casa Artelor Gallery Bucharest 1986-1980 Exhibitions Prolog II, III, IV, V, Casa Artelor Gallery Bucharest organizer: Paul Gherasim : B A R I L Fabrica de pensule Cluj Henri Barbusse 59-61 www.baril.ro, [email protected]

1990 Philokalia (Prolog VI) Galleries 3/4 National Theatre Bucharest Organizers: Alexandra Titu, Sorin Dumitrescu 1992 Exhibition at the National Conference of the laity, Romanian Peasant Museum Bucharest Organizers: Horia Bernea, Paul Gherasim Prolog VI Catacomba Gallery Bucharest, organizer: Sorin Dumitrescu 1994 'Venise en abîme "- Symposium painting, Romanian Cultural Centre Humanistic Research, Venice, Italy, organizer: Coriolan Babeţi "Il Sacro nell 'Arte" Galleria Tea Catania-Sicilia/Italia "Seduzione della Differenza" Prolog Group, Bologna, Italy organizer: Coriolan Babeţi "Prolog to Brebu Nou" (Symposium and Exhibition) 1995 'group to Limassol Prolog "- Cyprus, organizer Paul Gherasim Filocalia National Festival, the Museum of Art Cluj, organizer: Sorin Dumitrescu and ASCOR 1996 Prolog GroupCatacomba Gallery Bucharest Organizers: Paul Gherasim, Sorin Dumitrescu Prolog Group, Galleria 28 Timisoara 1997 Prolog Group Children's drawings, Gallery Catacomba Bucharest organizer: Paul Gherasim 1999 "Christmas Exhibition" group Prolog Curtea Veche Gallery Bucharest organizer: Paul Gherasim Prolog Exhibition, Galleria 28 Timisoara, 2000 Prolog Group, Louis Gallery Bucharest, organizer Paul Gherasim, 2001 Prolog Group Curtea Veche Gallery Bucharest, organizer Paul Gherasim "I diners' camp and exhibition Prolog Șirna-Brasov Organizers: Galleria28 and Radu Frunteș, 2002 "diners II" Galleria 28 Timisoara: Organizer: Galleria 28 (O. & MJ Badescu) 2003 Prolog to Bethonvilliers (camp and exhibition), Hall Bethonvilliers-France Organizer: Cristian Paraschiv 2004 Exhibition Prolog, Arad Art Museum, organizer Paul Gherasim Exhibition Gallery, " Prolog 2006 Exhibition, Museum of Art, Alba Iulia 2012 Prolog, Curtea Veche Gallery

Collective Exhibition

1962-1967 participation in art salons in Timisoara and Bucharest, 1975-2003 Art Salons (Timisoara and Bucharest), participation intermittent

1977 Conceptual Photography in Eastern Europe, Eindhoven, Netherlands; 1978 local artists and photography, Schiller House Bucharest, organizer: Ingo Glass 1979 Experimental Film and Photography, Home Art Bucharest, organizer: Ion Grigorescu, Mail-Art Biennale 1980, Krakow, Poland, Writing, Institute of Ion Mincu Ahitectură Bucharest 1981 Study II - Man and Nature / Place and Things, Bastion Gallery Timisoara Coordinators: Paul Gherasim, Ion Grigorescu, Coriolan Babeţi, Human - City - Nature / expozţie symposium, Galleries Victoria Iasi, organizer: Dan Haulica, 1983 Place. Fact and Metaphor 1 Village Museum Bucharest Organizers: Anca Vasiliu Ion Frunzetti, 1984 Life without art? - Exhibition / IP Mail-Art, workshop Constantin Flondor Timisoara : B A R I L Fabrica de pensule Cluj Henri Barbusse 59-61 www.baril.ro, [email protected]

and Pro Arts Gallery Lugoj, organizer: Constantin Flondor, Vatra. Place. Facts and Metaphor 2 Village Museum Bucharest, organizer: Anca Vasiliu Pleinair Stadt Magdeburg, Magdeburg - Germany, organizer:Michael Groschopp, 1985 Artists Timisoara at Dalles Hall, Bucharest Dalles Hall, branch organizer UAP Timisoara 1986 Space and Mirror, Institute of Architecture Ion Mincu Bucharest Organizers: Dan Haulica, Wanda Mihuleac, 1989 The 21 th International Festival of Painting, Cagne-sur-Mer, France Human - City-Nature, Science Symposium, organizer, moderator: Dan Haulica, 1990 Rebreanu Days, UAP Gallery Bistrita organizers: Mircea Oliv, Ioan Tolan, Artists from Timisoara, Szeged Art Symposium, Topola, Yugoslavia, Soiree exceptionelle - Romanian Art, Salons de l'Hotel de Lassay Paris-France organizer: 1991 Symposium Exhibit "Über Sieben Meeren" Magdeburg - Germany Organizer: Michael Groschopp, Condition untitled Timisoara Opera Square - Action + installation organizer: White group Timisoara Light, water, color, New Gallery and Museum of Oradea Cris Collections Museum Bucharest, organizer: Maria Zintz, National Biennial Drawing Exhibition, Gallery Delta Arad, 11 artists from Romania - Europa zu Gast Beratzhausen - Germany Notes for nostalgia II - Bucovina House University Timisoara, organizer: Constantin Flondor, 1992 Transparency Bridge Gallery Bucharest, organizer: Alexandra Titu Artists for Romania. Donations to the Museum of Contemporary Art National Museum of Art Bucharest, organizer: John Nicodemus, Essay interior, art gallery Satu Mare Contemporary art-happening, Arad Art Museum, organizer: Judith Anghel Notes for nostalgia III - Bucovina, Helios Gallery Timisoara organizer: Constantin Flondor, Think Europe! What's your feeling? mail art - exhibition investigation Berlin, Germany Organizer: Joseph Huber

1993 Notes for nostalgia IV Bucovina 1918 Banat Museum, organizer: Constantin Flondor Anastasia Foundation Art Collection, Gallery CatacombaBucharest organizer: Sorin Dumitrescu Art Expo '93 Pavilion Richard Demarco, Budapest Hungary, organizer: László Beke Bisanzo dopo Bisanzo, Romanian Centre for Culture and Research Humanist Venice, Italy, organizers: Coriolan Babeţi, Dan Haulica, 1994 Mihai Eminescu, Catacomba Gallery Bucharest, organizers: Paul Gherasim, Sorin Dumitrescu-artists from Timișoara, Rathaus Gallery Landshut, Germany, Orient-Occident.Tendinţe the Romanian art of the years 1989-1990, Banat Museum, organizer: Ileana Pintilie 1995 Art for Art exhibition / auction, Maastricht - Netherlands, organizer: Jan Volleberg Epi-Centre, Dortmund, Germany 1996 face painter - portrait, Gallery 3/4 National Theatre Bucharest : B A R I L Fabrica de pensule Cluj Henri Barbusse 59-61 www.baril.ro, [email protected]

Organizer: Mihai Sarbulescu, Mail - Art im Netzwerk Internationalen Osteuropa, Staatliches Museum Schwerin Germany Organizer: Kordel Röder, Experiment. Interference and propespecţiuni in Romanian art 60s 90s Gallery 3/4 Bucureștiși National Theatre National Museum of Art Cluj, Organizer: Alexandra Titu 1997 sacredness x 7 Art, Bucharest Romanian Parliament, organizer: Alexandra Titu National Biennial Drawing Exhibition, National Gallery Delta Arad, Concrete-art international exhibition + Symposium, National Museum of Art Bucharest, organizer: Stefan Sevastre Nude, gallery 3/4 National Theatre Bucharest, organizer: Mihai Sarbulescu, 1998 Exhibition of a collector: Dan Nasta, Bucharest Romanian Parliament, organizer: Dan Nasta Notes for nostalgia V - Chernivtsi, Galleria 28 Timisoara, Organizers: Constantin Flondor, Ileana Pintilie Versions of Transfiguration, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary, Organizers: László Beke and Sorin Dumitrescu, 1999 A Bisanzio Latin Bramante Gallery Vatican Rome-Italy, organizer: Sorin Dumitrescu, Ancestral and Heritage, Meeting Kalinderu Bucharest, organizer: Sorin Dumitrescu Between 30 and 60 Romanian Cultural Centre Budapest - Hungary, organizer: Dacian Andoni, Faculty of Art Timisoara 2000 Ritual thirst earth Bucharest Village Museum, organizer: John Nicodemus, 2001 Constitution Art Gallery M.S. King Michael I. Literature Museum Bucharest organizer: Sorin Dumitrescu, Sacred Science Cupola Gallery, organizer Alexandra Titu Self Portrait, Museum of Art Timisoara, organizer: Ileana Pintilie 2002 realities in der Kunst / Kunst in der realities, Regensburg, Germany organizer: Siegfried Jordan Ost-West, Regensburg Germany, organizer: Europäische Kultur Kuratorium International Painting Symposium, Odessa, Ukraine Organizer: Vadim Tselousov, Exhibition commemorative John Alexander Art Gallery Bistrita Organised by Cultural Association Almar, 2004 Romanian Contemporary Painting Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium Organizer: National Museum of Contemporary Art 2007 "Social Cooking", Berlin-D 2008 Focsani

VIDEOS Copyright (selective)

1972 Membranes of soap, S8, black + color 1973 The joint bars, S8, color, documentary 1974 Art and Energy, S8 color, documentary 1975 Baby, balloons, inflated surfaces, black S8 1976 Summer Practice Faget S8 color, documentary Forest ephemeral fabrics Deia, S8 color, documentary 1978 Multivision I and II (Sigma group), S8 black + color : B A R I L Fabrica de pensule Cluj Henri Barbusse 59-61 www.baril.ro, [email protected]

Visual Consciousness 1979 EU-TU-Mart, S8, black + color 3 screens Andplevision (in colab.cu D.Tulcan) S8 + color black, two screens 1980 turns, triptych, S8 black + color 1981 Movie for April, S8 color Study 2 S8 black + color, documentary Anivărsare 1983 (26 January), S8 Black Gărâna, S8 black and white documentary Recovery of green space, bd.Gh.Lazăr, S8 black + color Loc-fact and metaphor, S8 black + color, documentary Julius Podlipny, S8alb black + color Teremia I, II, S8 black + color, documentary Bookmark the plain, black S8 + color 1985 Sifting and modeling, S8 color, Tescani, S8 color, documentary 1991 World as mirror, VHS video