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1908 Bucharest - 2005 Bucharest. Known for: Painting.
Lena Constante was a Romanian artist and essayist, known for her tapestries and stage design, as well as for her memoirs that reminisce the painful years of being a political prisoner in communist... Read full biography
Lena Constante was a Romanian artist and essayist, known for her tapestries and stage design, as well as for her memoirs that reminisce the painful years of being a political prisoner in communist Romania. Originally trained as a painter, after her 12-year imprisonment, she could no longer exhibit... Read full biography
Lena Constante was a Romanian artist and essayist, known for her tapestries and stage design, as well as for her memoirs that reminisce the painful years of being a political prisoner in communist Romania. Originally trained as a painter, after her 12-year imprisonment, she could no longer exhibit her works due to political reasons. Instead, Constante turned to tapestry. Given her involvement in the activities of the Romanian School of Sociology led by Dimitrie Gusti during the interwar period,... Read full biography
Lena Constante was a Romanian artist and essayist, known for her tapestries and stage design, as well as for her memoirs that reminisce the painful years of being a political prisoner in communist Romania. Originally trained as a painter, after her 12-year imprisonment, she could no longer exhibit her works due to political reasons. Instead, Constante turned to tapestry. Given her involvement in the activities of the Romanian School of Sociology led by Dimitrie Gusti during the interwar period, her tapestry works were heavily influenced by Romanian folk art. Using fragments of fabrics from folk dress and embroideries, Constante’s collage-based tapestries reconfigure their aesthetic constitution. Through traditional motifs such as the sun,... Read full biography
Lena Constante was a Romanian artist and essayist, known for her tapestries and stage design, as well as for her memoirs that reminisce the painful years of being a political prisoner in communist Romania. Originally trained as a painter, after her 12-year imprisonment, she could no longer exhibit her works due to political reasons. Instead, Constante turned to tapestry. Given her involvement in the activities of the Romanian School of Sociology led by Dimitrie Gusti during the interwar period, her tapestry works were heavily influenced by Romanian folk art. Using fragments of fabrics from folk dress and embroideries, Constante’s collage-based tapestries reconfigure their aesthetic constitution. Through traditional motifs such as the sun, the moon, water, fire, the fir tree leaf, her works reimagine a novel genealogy of Romanian art. From... Read full biography
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