Name: MARA DIACONU
Member of the Romanian Union of Plastic Artists (UAP) – Graphics Section
Member of the Association of Creative Women in Plastic Arts in Romania
Date of Birth: 18-th May 1950, Iasi, Romania
Address: Pitesti, Banatului Street No. 17, Block B13 Stair C, Apartment 14
Phone: Home – 0348.425.246
Mobile – 0721.665.651
Studio Address: Vasile Milea Place, Metopa, Pitesti
Education: “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iasi – Faculty of de Fine Arts – 1972
Academy of Fine Arts, Bucharest – 1982
Occupation: Graphics Teacher at Fine Arts High-School “Dinu Lipatti”, Pitesti,
Romania

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS IN ROMANIA:
1972 – “Victoria” Gallery – Iasi
1974 – The Fine Arts Museum – Roman, Neamt
1978 – “Rotonda” Art Gallery – Tulcea
1993, 1996, 1997, 1998 – “Metopa” Art Gallery – Pitesti
2003 –Pitesti University, Rector's Office Room
2003 – Art Gallery “U” – Bucharest
2004, 2005 – “Metopa” Art Gallery – Pitesti
2006 – Casa Vernescu Gallery – Bucharest
2007 – The Center of Culture of Pitesti
2007, 2008 - ‘Metopa’ Gallery - Pitesti

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS OUTSIDE ROMANIA:
1998 – France, Paris – Roman Cultural Center
1999 – France, Paris – “Pot de Fere” Tournnefort Gallery
2001 – Serbia, Kragujevac – National Library
2001 – SUA, Nashville, TN - Calvary United Methodist Church
2002 – Egypt, Cairo – The Egyptian Center of International Cultural Cooperation
2003 – Spain - Madrid – “Arcanzuela” Art Gallery
2003 – Spain - Castellon de la Plana Art Gallery
2003 – Spain - Alicante – Museum of Alicante University (MUA)
2003 – Portugal, Lisboan – “Padrão dos Descombrimentos” Museum
2006 – Serbia, Kragujevac, “Red October” Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SYMPOSIUMS:
1995 – The National Biennial of Graphic Arts – National Theatre Bucharest (T.N.B.), Romania
1995 – The National Exhibition of Graphic Arts, “Modern” Art Gallery – Galati, Romania
1996 – The National Exhibition of Graphics – T.N.B., Romania
1996, 1997, 1998 – The International Exhibition Moldavia Rooms, Bacau – Kishinev
1997, 1998 ,2007– The National Exhibition “South Salon” - Rm.Valcea, Romania
1998 – “The Meaning of Style”, the Book House, Creation Camp”Capra-Transfagarasan”,
Pitesti, Romania
1998, 1999 – The international Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Resita,
Romania
2001 – The National Art Salon, ROMEXPO, Bucharest, Romania
2001 – The International Fair of Visual Arts, ARTEXPO, Bucharest, Romania
2003 – “Art Fair”, World Trade Center Sofitel, Bucharest, Romania
2003 – “Summer Salon”, Pitesti University, Romania
2003, 2004 – “Miniprint International de Cadaques” Exhibition, Barcelona, Spain
2004 – ”Arges Winter Art Salon”, Pitesti, Romania
2004 – “Dialogue between generations”, Art Museum, Pitesti, Romania
2005 – “Arges Spring Art Salon”, Pitesti, Romania
2005 – “Pitesti Days”, Pitesti, Romania
2005 – “Pristavu Center” Art Gallery Campulung-Muscel, Romania
2006 – Art Galleries, Rm. Valcea, Romania
2006 – “Summer Saloon”, Senso Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2006 – “European Bridges”, Senso Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2006 – “Mujeres Artistas”, MUA Alicante, Spania
2006 – “The Balkan Bridges” Serbia, Kragujevac
2006 – National Art Salon, Bucharest, Brancusi Room – Parliament
2007 - Torino, Italia; Apollo- Bucuresti- Torino
2007 - Art Museum,’ The Sons of Arges’
2008 - The Gallery of Hunedoara
2008 - ‘Art Fair ‘ World Trade Center Sofitel, Bucharest
2007, 2008 - Winter Saloon
2007 - The Center of Culture - ‘Eminescu’-Pitesti

CREATION CAMPS:
1971 – Republican Students’ Camp, Baia-Mare
1973, 1974 – Durau Camp, Piatra-Neamt
1987 – Calica Camp, Tulcea
1997 – Capra Transfagarasan Camp
2006 – “Licovna colonija” Camp, Serbia, Kragujevac
2007 - Voina, Arges

ART WORK (donations):
Romania - Fine Arts Museum, Pitesti
Romania - Unions’ House, Baia-Mare
Romania - “Tatarasi” Clinic and Prosecutor's Office – Iasi
Romania - “Uzin Export” Art Gallery - Bucharest
Romania - Books’ House – Pitesti
Romania - Moldavian Republic – Modern Art Museum – Kishinev
France - Roman Cultural Center – Paris
USA - Cultural Center, Nashville TN
Spain - Romanian Embassy, MUA Alicante
Serbia - Monumental Park, Kragujevac

ART WORK IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Austria, England, USA, France, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Venezuela, Egypt, Spain, Portugal.

AWARDS
2003 – “Observator” Newspaper Award – Artist of the Year
2003, 2004 – Excellency Diploma – County Department for Education, Cults, Patrimony

"Expansive and flashing, Mara Diaconu’s painting has something that reminds us of Hartung’s gesticulating celerity, but without his cutting asepsis, with severe formal restrictions, differentiating from Hartung precisely due to the chromatic prodigality and the unpredictable freedom of the touch lines. These are structured and defined by means of ample energetic displays, emancipated from the ward/domination of the normative constraints. Other possible reconsiderations of the incidental reality are suggested by operating mutations of the plastic common places – still life, landscape and portrait – in thin aired zones with intensely fluorescent iridescence in which the materiality of the objects is transferred to parallel existences controlled by an enigmatic centre of gravity. Effervescent and directly seductive, lacking conventional features and also lacking pedantry, Mara Diaconu’s art has the natural authenticity of the values that are acquired due to a privileged Eucharistic."
Virgil Poleacu - ‘The Encyclopaedia of the contemporary Romanian artists’