PAVEL ȘUȘARĂ

Pavel Șușară in an art critic and historian, a writer, a researcher within the framework of the “George Oprescu” History of Art Institute of the Romanian Academy until 2015, a specialist in the field of Romanian art, museographer and gallerist. A graduate of the Faculty of Art History and Theory, the “Nicolae Grigorescu” Plastic Arts Institute, Bucharest. A disciple of Andrei Pleșu. A member of the Romanian Plastic Artists’ Union and of the Romanian Writers’ Union, the president of the Association of Romanian Art Experts and Appraisers. During the interval 1993-2010 he contributed weekly articles to România literară, mainly on Romanian art, but also on topics in the world’s art. He currently signs the permanent art column in Acolada magazine.

Published volumes: literature – Regula jocului (The Rule of the Game), poetry, the Romanian Writers’ Union prize, Veto, Urmuz, Tetraktys, Opt poveşti adevărate cu fiinţe minunate (Eight True Fairy-Tales with Wonderful Beings), children’s poetry, the Romanian Writers’ Union prize, Sissi, a poem, Amore more ore re, poems, Viziunile Șarpelui Alcazar (The Visions of the Snake Alcazar), poems, Urbi & Orbi, poems, Sinuciderea se amână (The Suicidal Act Has Been Postponed), prose, Carcase de cristal (Crystal Boxes), reviews. Works on art – Corneliu Baba, a monographic album, Parkstone publishing house, London – Paris, the prize of the Romanian Editors’ Association, Brâncuși, un sculptor de la Rasarit (Brâncuși, A Sculptor from the East), a monographic essay, Lumea lui Aurel Jiquidi (Aurel Jiquidi’s World), a monographic study.

His literary texts evince his interest in the question of language, in the expressive force of cultural memory, the ironic and self-ironic gaze in the context of great technical mobility, but everything is placed against the background of a grave existential perspective, often marked by despair – these problems being a constant preoccupation emerging in the works of the writers of the 80s.  The texts devoted to art analysis, in which the stylistic and formal analysis is projected against a larger theoretical horizon, rely on the qualities of the literary expression and the intrinsic potential of phrasing.

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