Ovidiu Maitec

Ovidiu Maitec (born the December 13rd 1925 with Arad (Romania) and dead the March 17th 2007 with Paris, (France)), Rumanian Sculpteur was a .

In the line of Constantin Brancusi, Ovidiu Maitec marked the XXe century by the modernity of its Article. It is one of the rare Rumanian artists to be able to travel abroad during the communist era whereas Europe is cut into two. It can thus show several times its work with Biennial of Venice in 1995, symbol of its dedication. but also with the international festivals of contemporary art of Edinburgh and Bilbao.

After the fall of the mode of Nicolae Ceaucescu in 1989, it exposes to the National center of art and culture Georges-Pompidou to Paris. Its sculptures out of metal and wood can be today admired with the Tate Gallery London as with Paris, with Sydney, in Florida and in the German cities of Cologne and Mannheim which comes to supplement its fame.

The Work of Maitec dépandait of its first investigations on the balance, with the same time visuèle as philosophical, of which it followed in particularitées the Skeuimorphique.

It is one of principal the Sculpteur S Rumanian contemporaries, often considered as the successor of large the Constantin Brancusi.

He dies the March 17th 2007 in a Parisian hospital, where he was treated for a not specified disease.

He is buried the March 23rd with Bucharest.