The painter has had a fascination with labyrinths and has found a symbolic similarity between them and the intelligence. The mind, like the universe, must be a labyrinth.
HONORS AND AWARDS
1995 International Man of the Year – Cambridge, England
1982 Professor Emeritus of Art – Bucharest, Romania
1982 Special Award for Painting – Fine Art Guild of Romania
1979 National Prize for Monumental Tapestry (with wife Liana Saru)
1976 Gold Medal and Laureate of the Triennial Exhibition – Sofia
1968 Order of the Cultural Merit – Bucharest, Romania
1964 Special Award for Monumental Art (mosaic for public squares)
1953 International Award for Painting, World Youth Festival
1951 Laureate of the State Prize – Bucharest, Romania
1950 National Award for Painting, the Culture Ministry of Romania
1949 Prize “Ion Andreescu”- Romanian Academy of Arts and Letters
WORKS IN MUSEUMS
Hermitage – USSR
Weisman Art Museum – Minneapolis
National Museums of Art – Bucharest, Jassy, Timisoara,
Cluj, Oradea, Galatzi, Suceava, Constantza, Turnu-Severin
WORKS IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Weisman Museum of Art, USA, then collections in:
France, Italy, Russia, Mexico, USA, Denmark, Japan, Germany,
Spain, Holland, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil,
Canada, Romania, Luxembourg
The Golden Labyrinth
30" X 24"
Mixed Technique on Canvas
5300 $CAD
Le Labyrinth Vert
30" X 24"
Mixed Technique on Canvas
5300 $CAD
SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
1979 Prague, Czechoslovakia
1975 Museum of Modern Art – Triennial of Sczecin, Poland
1975 Quebec
1974 Cairo, Egypt
1973 Washington
1973 San Sebastian, Spain
1972 Orly, France
1972 Leningrad
1968 Paris
1965 Museum of Modern Art – Triennial of Sczecin, Poland
1963 Berlin
1961 Museum of Modern Art – Paris, France (here, next to Brancussi,
Saru displays several paintings. Among them was “Two young
Welders” which was reproduced on a Postage Stamp Emission)
1961 Geneva
1958 Moscow
1956 Vienna, Austria
1956 Biennale di Venezia (XVIII) – Venice, Italy
1954 Biennale di Venezia (XVII) – Venice, Italy
ONE MAN SHOWS:
2007 RIVAA Gallery – New York
2004 Romanian Cultural Center – Post Mortem
1999 Gallery@49, New York
1997 Romanian Cultural Center, NY Gallery
1995 The York Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1991 Basil – Spingarn Gallery, Matawan, NJ
1991 Dome Gallery, Broadway, SOHO – New York
1990 Morin – Miller Gallery, 57Street, New York
1989 Bonwitt – Teller at Trump Tower, 57Street, New York
1989 Morin – Miller Gallery, 57Street, New York
1988 Morin – Miller Gallery, 57Street, New York
1988 M.A.T. Gallery, Montreal, Canada
1988 Lawrence Gallery, New York
1987 Alex Gallery, Washington, DC
1985 Victor Art Gallery, New York
1983 LeMire Gallery, New Orleans
1983 H.H. Leonard Gallery, Washington, DC
1981 Dalles Art Gallery, Bucharest
1979 “Simeza” Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1977 National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Romania
1977 Dalles Art Gallery, Bucharest
1970 Dalles Art Gallery, Bucharest
1969 “Orizont” Gallery, Bucharest
1960 Puskin Museum, Moscow, USSR
1956 Dalles Art Gallery, Bucharest