Serghei Litvin Manoliu
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Bucharest
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in 1953. His four grandparents were of four different nationalities: Polish, Romanian, Russian and German. He currently lives between Paris
Paris
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and New York
New York
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Biography
Serghei Litvin Manoliu was born in 1953. His father was a theatre manager. His mother was a professor of Byzantine iconography. He is the descendant of three generations of painters. Attracted to drawing very early in life, he had his first exhibition when he was only 19. Between 1967 and 1968 he travelled across Italy and Sweden before settling in Paris. Since 2003, the artist has shared his time between his studio in New York studio and his Parisian ties.He has had about twenty solo exhibitions and featured in as many fairs: New York
New York
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, Cape Town
Cape Town
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, Paris
Paris
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Venice
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; etc. His works are exhibited in museums in the United States (Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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, Corpus Christi
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- Texas) and France (Tulle
Tulle
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, Brive).
Serghei Litvin Manoliu also writes short texts for a number of blogs, critical articles, sketchbooks and artist’s books. These texts are always bilingual (French and English). Some of them are published at the author's expense with a print run of a few hundreds copies and sold by the La Hune bookshop in Paris, the Tate Modern
Tate Modern
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bookshop in London and Printed Matter
Printed matter
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in New York. "Guns (Loaded?)", published in 2007 by Lélia Mordoch, was produced in collaboration with the renowned New York writer Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon
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He first had the idea of creating a platform dedicated to contemporary drawing in Brooklyn
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in 2006. In 2007 in Paris, he founded the Cercle D, a club of drawing connoisseurs. In February 2008, he launched the 21st-Century Drawing Blog. The first edition of the International Fair of 21st-Century Drawing took place in Paris
Paris
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in March 2009. And FID 2010 takes places in March 2010, presenting exclusively art students from sixteen european major schools (Milano, Belgrad, London, Paris, Brussels, Helsinki...)
Artist books
- Bhagâvad Gîta, with a handwritten foreword by professor Jean Varenne, 1983
- Armored Icons, 1997
- Voyage à New York d'un fabricant de météorites, 1998
- Apology for censorship and war, 2002
- Brancusi > Targu Jiu, 2003
- Brooklyn notebook, 2005
- Guns (Loaded?), textes de Lélia Mordoch et Andrew Solomon, 2007
Solo exhibitions
- 1974: Friedrich Schiller Kulturhaus, Bucharest, Romania
- 1977: Haut Pavé Gallery, Paris, France
- 1986: Brive Museum, France
- 1987: Tulle Museum, France
- 1989: Huguenot House, Cape Town, South Africa
- 2001: International Center of Contemporary Art, exhibition curator : Magda Carneci, Bucharest
- 2001: Venice Biennal (off) Del Leone Gallery, Venice, Italy
- 2001: Weil Gallery - Texas A&M University, USA
- 2003: "Art Dollar", Lélia Mordoch Gallery, Paris, France
- 2006: "XXIV icons made in New York", Lélia Mordoch Gallery, Paris, France
Institutional collections
- Tulle Museum, France
- Brive Museum, France
- Bouvet Ladubay Contemporary Art Center, Saumur, France
- International Center of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
- A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
- U.S. Federal Reserve, Washington D.C., USA