SANDÚ DARIE (Roman, Romania, 1908 - Havana, Cuba, 1991)."The dimension of time", 1968.Mixed media on

SANDÚ DARIE (Roman, Romania, 1908 - Havana, Cuba, 1991).
"The dimension of time", 1968.
Mixed media on panel.
Signed in the lower middle section. Signed, dated and titled on the back.
Size: 78 x 63 x 4 cm.
Sandú Darie's works tend to oscillate between painting and sculpture, creating a harmonious whole based on assemblage. Thus uniting multiple artistic concepts in one work; not only two different techniques, but also the union between artist and craftsman that converge in this work. The piece shows compositionally the result of a dialogue with the context in which the avant-garde artistic movements and the direct link with rationalist architecture, coexist with colour and light. Based on his knowledge of Dutch neo-plasticism, Sandú produced a work that may well recall Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1949), although in this case the artist brings greater dynamism through the interplay of planes and the evolution of forms that Mondrian proposed.
A multidisciplinary artist, he worked in various artistic fields, including sculpture, painting, drawing, ceramics, stage design and theatrical costume design. He began his academic training in Paris in 1926 in the university field of law. However, his interest in art and the artistic atmosphere of Paros introduced Saurdu Darie to the world of art in a self-taught manner. During this period the artist combined his training in France with his participation in progressive magazines and newspapers in Romania and France, in which he produced humorous drawings. In 1940 he joined the French army as a volunteer, arriving in Cuba a year later. In 1940 he joined the French army as a volunteer, arriving in Cuba a year later. On the island he began to produce humorous drawings, which achieved a great reputation, making him a leading artist from 1942 onwards. In 1949, the year of his first exhibition in New York, he began his artistic relationship with Gyula Kosice, founder of the group "Arte Madí", thus becoming part of the group's exhibitions and publishing articles in the group's magazine. Between 1958 and 1961 he was a member of the renowned group of artists "Diez Pintores Concretos", and in 1964 he made the documentary "Cosmorama. Spatial Poem No 1", an experimental study of forms and structures in movement, and during the 1970s his production followed a line of projects for urban architectural environments using kinetic art as a language. In 1982 he was on the jury of the Salón Paisaje'82, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana and in 1988 he was on the jury of the III Salón de Premiados, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba.Sandú Daire Laver, is one of the most outstanding figures of Cuban art. He is one of the main precursors of Abstraction in both its lyrical and geometric aspects. An example of his experience of geometric abstraction is this plastic work, which, due to its formal and structural characteristics, could have been executed during the 1950s. He was also one of the leading representatives of kinetic art. Among his numerous awards, it is worth mentioning the Honorary Mention of the VIIII Salón de Pintura y Escultura del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana in 1956 and his appointment as Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (Holland) in 1975, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and numerous private collections all over the world, as well as institutions such as the Casa de las Américas in La Hanana (Cuba) and the MoMA in New York, among others.