Filip Petcu

EDUCATION :

Since 2010 PHD scholar in the field of Visual Arts, University of the West,  Faculty of Arts and Design, Timișoara
2007-2009 -MA in “Icon – Painting and Restoration”, University of the West, Faculty of Arts and Design, Timișoara, RO, class of prof.univ.dr. Doina Mihăilescu
2003-2007 – Graduated Studies BA, University of the West, Faculty of Arts and Design,Conservation-Restoration of Painting Department, Timișoara, RO.
2000-2003 – Nikolaus Lenau Lyzeum, Timișoara, ROMember of the Fine Arts Union of Romania (since 2009)
In the present: Teaching Assistant in the Faculty of Arts and Design, University of the West, Timișoara, RO

AWARDS:

2010 – Pro Cultura Timisiensis  Award – for Visual Artists, Council of the Timiș District

CONSERVATION and RESTORATION of works of art:

•a complex professional experience in the field -since 2003- in the conservation and restoration of hundreds of religious icons, panel paintings and other polychromed wood: numerous icons from private collections and Church Collection / since 2007 – coordinator of various team-restoration projects and workshops , within working as T.A. in the FAD, UVT –
•a basic experience in  the conservation-restoration of various types of canvas and cardboard painting, wallpainting and archeological artifacts.
SOLO SHOWS:

2011 – “Sublimation of the space in painting”-Filip Petcu & Andreea Foanene , French Institute of Timişoara, ROMANIA
2010 –  “The architecture and dynamics of light” – Andreea Foanene & Filip Petcu, Viranyos Gallery, Budapest, HUNGARY
2010 – “Refugees ”  Andreea Foanene, Philip Petcu and Oana Bolog-Bleich, City Hall of Heidelberg, GERMANY
2010 –  “Projects of yesterday and today” Andreea Foanene & Filip Petcu, Pygmalion Gallery, Timişoara, ROMANIA2009 –  recyclable installation in public space “EISBERG – CCCC2009”,  dedicated to the Copenhage Climate Change Conference 2009, in front of the French Cultural Institute of Timișoara
2009 – concept and coordination of the artistic happening „The Car – a protest against global warming”, in the Central Square of Bergama2009 – Resident of the French Cultural Center of Timișoara with the personal project „THE GREAT BALDAQUIN”, during the Festival of Franchphonie, in the location of French Cultural Institute of Timișoara
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION):

2012 – Exhibition “The Cross”, Golia Monastery, jud. Iasi, RO
2012 – National Art-Biennal “Gheorghe Pătrașcu”, XI-th Edition, National Museum Complex “Curtea Domnească”, Târgoviște, RO
2012-National Art-Biennal “Ion Andreescu”, VIII-th Edition, “Ion Andreescu – Art Galleries”, , Buzău, RO
2012 – “Meeting for art”, Galeria Helios, Timișoara, RO
2011 –  “Lascăr Vorel Visual Arts Biennal”,  12th Edition, Complexul Muzeal Judeţean Neamţ , Piatra Neamț, RO
2011 – “500 artists from all Romania”,  National Contemporary Art Saloon, Centrul de Expoziții și Evenimente Sofianu, Râmnicu Vâlcea, RO2011 – The Timișoara Young Artists Saloon,  1st Edition, Helios Gallery, Timișoara, RO
2011 – “Fruits of the wishing-tree”, Consiliul Județean Timiș, Timișoara RO and National Museum of Zrenjanin, SERBIA
2011 – “l MEETING-Point Internationa Art Biennal”, 3rd Edition, Delta Gallery Arad and Art Museum of Arad, RO
2011 – “Mnemosyning – Come with me into the birches forest” international exhibition, Art Museum, Timişoara, RO
2010-2011 – “Heaven’s Gift” Helios Gallery, Timisoara, RO
2010-2011 – Visual Art Saloon, Museum of Art, Timişoara, RO.
2010 – ICON-Exhibition in the Opera Mirror-Hall, of Timișoara, RO
2010 – “Sign-Symbol”, Romanian Cultural Institute, Budapest, HU
2010 – “You shall not kill, ” TIMCO halls, Timişoara, RO
2010-  Visual Art Saloon, Artex Gallery, Râmnicu Vâlcea, RO
2009 – “The stars, the outer space, in the view of visual artists” Palatul Administrativ, Timişoara, RO
2009 –  “20 years since the Romanian Revolution celebrated by the artists of Timişoara”, University of the West and Helios Gallery, Timişoara, RO / Romanian Cultural Institul in Szeged – Hungary / Cultural Center of Central and East Europe, Budapest – Hungary
2009 –  “The Absurd in the visual arts- an exhibition dedicated to Eugene Ionesco”, Romanian Cultural Institute in Budapest, HU
2009 –  “Identity Exceange”, at the Helios Gallery, Timişoara, RO
2008 –  Visual Art Saloon, Museum of Art, Timişoara, RO.
2008 – “My Menthor – Tribute to my master”, Palatul Administrativ, Timişoara, RO
2008 – Festival of the Contemporary Utopia, the 4’rd edition, UNA Gallery, Bucharest, and Mansarda Gallery, Timişoara, RO
2008 – “The Path- Route, Movement, Dynamism”  Palatul Administrativ, Timişoara, RO
2007 – “Griffin XXI”, project presented at the festival “Contemporary Utopia”, the 3rd edition, UNA Gallery, Bucharest, and Mansarda Gallery, Timişoara, ROMURAL PAINTING PROJECTS:

2011 – “The Last Supper”, Glimboca “Holy Trinity” Settlement, RO
2008 – “Saint Nicholas –  Archbishop of Myra – Chapel”, Coriolan Brediceanu Highschool, Lugoj, RO

Sursa: http://filippetcu.webs.com/