Leonard Rachita

selected solo exhibitions

2016 Galerie Satellite, Paris: Impermanences_I; Hinoki Gallery F, Tokyo: Impermanences_II; George Apostu Contemporary Art Museum, Bacau, Romania: Impermanences_III 2006 Sculpture Center Gallery, West Rutland, Vermont USA: Limits 2004 Ahmed Shawki Museum, Cairo, Egypt: Impermanence exercises 1998 Maison du Geste et de l’Image, Paris: Shadow - Light 1997 J & J Donguy Gallery, Paris: Exercices d’impermanence 1996 Paris studio: Bain de Siècle 1994 Gen Gallery, Tokyo: Shadow’s though_II; Paris studio: Ombre et Lumière 1993 Garches Culture Center, France 1992 Gen Gallery, Tokyo: Shadow’s though_I 1991 Hinoki Gallery, Tokyo: Les beaux temps jadis 1983 Gallery of National Architecture Institute, Bucharest, Romania: Details and landmarks of landscape's anatomy, morphologies and relationships, the first public happening in Romania; Meduza Gallery, Capodistria, Yugoslavia: Affective Architectures_III; Barbacan Gallery, Trieste, Italy: Affective Architectures_II 1982 Galateea Gallery, Bucharest: Affective Architectures_I, the first photocopies exposed in an art gallery in Romania

selected group exhibitions

2021 On the walls, Stéphane Mortier Gallery, Paris; Bouffée d’oxygène: l’eau, espace Culturel Condorcet "La grande galerie", Viry Chatillon, video 2020 Space Media 2020, Stéphane Mortier Gallery, Paris; The 9th Nature Art Video Exhibition - Geumgang Nature Art Biennale South Korea 2018 Rikiki, Satellite Gallery, Paris; Nature Art Cube Exhibition, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, The 8th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, vidéo, Gongju, South Korea 2017 Nature Art Cube Exhibition, The 7th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, South Korea; Here There Cotroceni National Museum, Bucharest Romania 2016 The Geumgang Nature Art Biennale - video exhibition, Gongju, South Korea; CAF Nebula Saitama Modern Art Museum, Japan 2015 Galerie Satellite, Paris: Tours et Détours; Minimenta, Paris 2010 Metepec, Mexico: Permanent Retrospective Exhibition 2009 Runbook, Paris: Des Paysages 2008 Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: The First Guadalajara Sculpture Biennial 2005 Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vermont USA, SCULPTfest, Approaching the infinite 2003 Cairo Biennale, Egypt: Evanescent portrait 1997 Paris, 7 rue Keller: Photogrammes; private appartement, Paris: Un dimanche d’hiver: Flamme en ombre 1996 Maison du Geste et de l’Image, Paris: La collection d’Edouard: la Source de la lumière 1995 Paris studio: October’ 95: Lumière sur lumière; Vélodrome, Paris 1994 Paris, 7 rue de Talleyrand: Trace et miroir 1993 Musée Municipal Saint Paul de Vence, France: Architectures 1992 Zekou Gallery, Paris 1991 UNESCO, Paris: L’art dans la Cité 1990 Commanderie des Templiers, Chapelle de la Villedieu, France; Théatre de Neuilly, France: Les Artistes pour les Artistes 1989 Palazzo Alidossi, Castel del Rio, Italy: Architectures 1988 Australian International Art Fair, Sydney, Australia; Contemporary Art Center, Clamart, France: Grandeur Nature 1987 Albert Chanot Culture Art Center, Clamart 1986 UNESCO, Paris: Architecture, Art Plastique, Environnement; Jacob Javits Centre Convention Art Fair, New York USA; Château de Verduron, France: Sculpture Contemporaine; Chapelle St. Leonard, Croissy sur Seine, France; Moulin de Mougins, France: Espace d’une vision; Les Pyramides Fondation, Pont Marly, France 1985 Taller Galeria Fort, Barcelona, Spain: The First Copy Art Biennial; Lafôret Museum, Tokyo: The First Art Expo; Grand Palais, Paris: Salon de Mai; Salon de Montrouge, France; Monaco: XIXème Prix International de Monte Carlo; Fernand Léger Gallery, CREDAC, Ivry sur Seine, France: Monumental International Art Competition; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Group exhibition 1984 Grand Palais, Paris: Salon Jeune Peinture; Château Vaux le Penil, Melun, France: Autour de Dali; Salle Playel, Paris: 200 Oeuvres Récentes; Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Grand Palais, Paris: Salon Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui; Grand Palais, Paris: Salon Réalités Nouvelles 1983 Sculpture Gallery, Paris

performance, happening, installation

2019 marks Canakkale - Dardanelles, Troy ruins, Rumeli Feneri - Bosphorus / Blac Sea, Rumeli Feneri Topçu Kalesi, Istambul, Turkey; the soft heaps, Rumeli Feneri harbor, Bosphorus Turkey; resurrexit, altar a_b, Saint Gayrand church, France 2018 marks, Amsterdam, Baarlo, Maas river Holland; Dusseldorf, Germany; 2017 marks Skopje, Gostivar, Kichevo, Struga Macedonia; marks Elbasan, Tirana, Durres, Strait of Otranto Albania; marks Brindisi, Naples, Roma, Italy; 2016 marks Tokyo bay, Miura Kaigan; Ginza Tokyo; Sugimi - ku Tokyo; Kita Urawa, Saitama, Japan; cart ruts marks, Rabat, Malta; marks I _ II, Xlendi, Gozo island, Malta; cart ruts thought, Ta’ Cenc, Sannat, Gozo island 2015 Following white shadow, Delphi, Olympia, Ithaca, Greece 2014 Traces, Jeju island, South Korea 2013 Following white shadow, Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido, Mont Alban, Mexico 2012 Following white shadow, Uruguay bank river, Salto, Uruguay; Paraguay bank river, Asuncion, Paraguay; Humahuaca, Coranzuli river, Iruya, Argentina; San Juan, Sur Lipez, Bolivia; San Pedro di Atacama, Valparaiso, Chile 2011 Trace, Uru Uru lake, Oruro, Bolivia; Following White shadow, Quebrada de Palala, Tupiza, Bolivia; Ellipsis P 1 _ P 2 _ P 3, Cerro Rico Potosi, Bolivia; Ellipsis S _ 1, Uyuni Salar, Bolivia; Ellipsoids, Maurepas France 2010 Urosa, Uros floating islands, Titicaca lake, Puno, Peru; Following white shadow, Nazca, Peru 2009 Heap P 1 _ P 2, Paros island, Greece; Heap Paris 2006 Moving trace, St. Luis de Potosi, Mexico; Buddha’s thought, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand 2005 Heap V 1 _ V 2, Clarendon river, Vermont USA 2004 Heap A _ 1, Aswan, Egypt 2003 Evanescent portrait, Cairo Biennial, Egypt 1998 Shadow - Light, Maison du Geste et de l’Image, Paris 1997 Empreintes de poussière, Péniche Julia, Quai de New York, Paris; "Barbe à papa", J&J Donguy Gallery, Paris 1996 Bain de siècle, Paris studio, collaboration with Maria Rachita 1994 Sculptures dites, Paris studio 1986 Piège à ombre, Salon de Montrouge, France 1984 Exercices de rythme I _ II, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 1983 The riverbed, Gallery of National Architecture Institute, Bucharest, happening; Study for landscape anatomy_III, Bucharest; In extremis, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 1982 Study for landscape anatomy_II, Portoroz,Yugoslavia

sculpture symposiums

2019 Resurrexit Saint Gayrand France 2018 Baarlo International Sculpture Symposium, Hollande 2015 Stanisesti, Romania 2010 Simpetra, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal 2008 - 2007 Singeorz Bai, Romania 2006 Guadalajara, Mexico; San Luis de Potosi, Mexico; Rosia Montana, Romania; Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand 2005 Moscow, Russia; Aswan, Egypt: The pebble, installation on the Nile bank, in Elephantine island area 2004 JEEM, Lattakia, Syria ; Aswan, Egypt, Filae area 2003 Byblos, Lebanon; Aswan, Egypt 2002 Ichon, South Korea; Château de Lignan, France 2001 Aley, Lebanon 1992 Otsuki, Shikoku, Japan 1991 Fujimi, Nagano, Japan 1990 Tawara, Osaka, Japan; Kemijarvi, Lapland, Finland; Minokamo, Gifu, Japan 1989 Castel del Rio, Bologna, Italy 1988 Teulada, Sardinia, Italy 1986 Croissy sur Seine, France; Budduso, Sardinia, Italy 1985 Zarautz, Basque country, Spain 1984 Hecho, Aragon, Spain 1983 Carrara, Italy 1981 Forma Viva, Portoroz, Yugoslavia 1980 The White Crown, Arandelovac, Yugoslavia 1979 Magura, Buzau, Romania 1978 - 1977 Arcus, Covasna, Romania 1976 Magura, Buzau

lecture

2014 George Bacovia University, Bacau, Romania 2006 Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vermont USA; Museo de las Artes, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico; Universidad de Monterrey, St. Luis de Potosi, Mexico 2005 Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vermont USA 2004 Latakia University, Syria

writings

2014 Vitraliu, no. 44, Bacau, Romania 2013 Arta, no. 8 - 9, Romania; Vitraliu, no. 43 2005 L’Egyptien, Paris, no. 3 1999 Ecrit pour nous, winter 99, Paris 1992 French Sculptors Association Magazine, no. 194, Paris 1991 Special Japan, AISS Association bulletin, LEMAR’s editions, collaboration with Maria Rachita; French Sculptors Association Magazine, no. 191, Paris 1989 AISS Association bulletin, LEMAR’s editions, conception, articles, graphic design, collaboration with Maria Rachita: first world publication exclusively dedicated to sculpture symposiums 1983 Arta, Romania

collections / commissions

Mexico Universidad de Monterrey, San Luis de Potosi; Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara South Korea Ichon Open Air Sculpture Museum; Seogwipo - si, Jeju island, commission; private collections Portugal Centro di Escultura, Caldas da Rinha Thailand Ubon Ratchathani USA Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vermont; private collections Egypt Aswan, File area, Open Air Museum; Nile bank, Elephantine island, Aswan; private collections Liban
Beirut city; Byblos city; private collections Finland Kemijarvi Sculpture Museum; private collections Spain Hecho Sculpture parc; Zarauz Open Air Sculpture Museum; private collections Sweden private collections Japan Tawara, Osaka, Kansas Science City; Minokamo Sculpture Park; Fujimi Olympic Sculpture Park; Otsuki, Shikoku Open Air Sculpture Collection; Hachioji, Tokyo commission; private collections Syria Latakia Open Air Sculpture Collection Germany private collections Italy Carrara; Castel del Rio, Parco di Scultura; Teulada; Budduso; private collections France Fonds National d’Art Contemporain; ville de Paris commission; Hollande Baarlo; private collections Yugoslavia Arandelovac Sculpture Park; Portoroz Forma Viva Sculpture Park; Marusici Open Air Sculpture Collection; private collections Romania National Museum of Art; Muzeul de Arta Comparata, Singeorz Bai; Magura; Arcus; Drobeta -Turnu Severin; Rosia Montana; private collections

award / grant / residence

2014 George Apostu prize, Bacau, Romania 2005 Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vermont, USA, artist in residence 1994 BT Magazine, The best exhibitions of the year in Tokyo, Gallery Gen exhibition 1988 Teulada, Sardinia sculpture prize, Italy 1986 Budduso, Sardinia sculpture prize, Italy 1985 International Monumental Art Competition, CREDAC, Ivry sur Seine, France, grant 1984 Bilan de l’Art Contemporain Fondation, France, art prize
1983 - 1985 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, artist in residence 1981 Laureate of Dante Alighieri Biennale, Ravenna, Italy 1980 Arta Magazine, Bucharest, Romania, sculpture prize 1979 Romanians Fine Art Association, grant for sculpture; Italian Culture Center, Academia per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, grant 1978 Frederic Storck Foundation, Bucharest, grant

teaching

2014 - 2009 ITECOM Paris 2009 Esmod Paris 2008 Tsingua University Beijing, China 2006 - 2005 Sculpture Center, West Rutland, Vermont, USA 2004 Centrum Castres, France, founder 2003 Château de Lignan, France, founder 2003 - 2002 Ecole de la Haute Couture Parisienne, Paris 2000 - 1999 La Passerelle, Paris 1998 - 1997 EAP, Paris 1994 Accor Academy, Summer University, Evry, France since 1993 Group MJM Paris 1992 Misho City, Japan, summer cours 1989 Teulada Sculpture Summer School, Sardinia, Italy, founder 1982 - 1983 Kornaria, Marusici International Summer Sculpture School, Yougoslavia, organized by Forma Viva Symposium and Saint Martin’s School of Arts, London

related employment / membership

2016 PotatoMike, Contemporary Art platform; Contemporary Performance Network, member; YATOO International Project, member; AININ Artists in Nature International Network, member 2013 META Fondation, online Encyclopedia 2012 - 2018 SCULPTURE NETWORK, member 2012 - 2006 AIESM International Association for Monumental Sculpture Events, France Manager 2006 International Sculpture Symposium Rosia Montana, Romania, co-organizer, art director 2003 IACA, aiap / UNESCO Art Centers Association, founder member; Byblos International Sculpture Symposium, Lebanon, organizer, art director 2002 Château de Lignan International Sculpture Symposium, France, organiser, art director 1992 RESALT® innovation 1990 AFRA French Romanian Art Association, Paris, founder member 1987 Pompidou Centre - personal space 1986 AISS International Association for Sculpture Symposiums, Paris, founder, President 1985 aiap / UNESCO member 1982 - 1978 National Office for Fine Art Exhibitions, Bucarest 1983 - 1982 Young Romanian Artists Association, President 1980 UAP Romanian Fine Arts Union, member