Alexandru Ioan MARGINEAN

Name: MARGINEAN
First Name: ALEXANDRU IOAN
Date of birth: 24.01.1969
Place of birth: Bucharest, ROMANIA
Work place at present: Teacher Assistant, the Chair of Technical and Theoretical Topics (Digital Image Processing), Faculty of Fine Arts, The National University of Arts, Bucharest
Research Doctoral thesis: THE CONCEPT OF AMBIENT ART

Studies:

1999 - 2000	Post-graduate grant "Vasile Parvan" - Rome, Italy
1994	Grant of the "Solomon R. Guggenheim" Foundation, Venice, Italy
1993	Italian government grant - Art Academy, Bologna, Italy
1993	Tempus Grant - Bath College of Higher Education, UK
1987-1993	Art Academy - Bucharest

Foreign languages known: German, French, Italian, English - writing and speaking

Professional experience:

• Activity in the field of advertising: negative and positive 120 format photography for: art catalogues, utility products, commercial products o Graphic upmaking for book covers, posters, leaflets, labels, web pages (with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress applications)

• Activity in the field of painting and ambient design: The Emergency Hospital - Bucharest - mural decoration (ceramic mosaic - 18 m2); GRIVCO - Bucharest - mural decoration (acrylic / oil 8 m2); private houses - Breaza and Bucharest - mural decorations (sgraffitto); "Les Oliviades" Restaurant, Hotel Sofitel - Bucharest

• Activity in the field of documentary short films: "Ceramica" - B/W 16 mm 9' (Bolex-Paillard); "Mathiessen and Klaus Merkel" (20', video S-VSH)

• Participation in exhibitions (photography, serigraphy, graphic art, painting): 2004 - "Velasquez/Contemporary Interpretations" - The National Art Museum in Cluj; 2004 - International Exhibition at the European Parliament, Strasbourg, France; 2002-2004: participation in the Art Fairs "Shop Art", World Trade Center, Bucharest; 2003 - "Ziel 1 = Kunst = Ziel 1" exhibition in Burg Schleining, Austria; 2002 - Cselley MUhle - Eisenstadt, Austria; 2001 - Exhibition of photography at the Faculty of Theater and Film, Hyperion University, Bucharest (First Prize for portrait); 2000 - Exhibition of grant fellows of foreign academies in Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; 1998 - Brancovenian Palaces - Mogosoaia, book-object, "Codex II"; 1997-1998 - other participations in group exhibitions in: Constantza, Ankara, Bath, Venice, Senigallia, Rome, Leipzig, Vienna

• Personal exhibitions: 1989 - History Museum, Blaj, Romania; 1996 - Galla Gallery, Bucharest, Romania; 1994 - Vienna

• Awards: Senigallia "Arte Viva" 94; Ankara "Tutav", Vienna "Tank-Umwelt"