Intriguing Sculptures Of Bogdan Rata

Bogdan Rața is one of the most intriguing sculptors from his generation. His new hybrid realism is finding new genetic forms of human anatomy in search of a new posthumanism. Rața multiplies human parts (fingers, ears, and so on) and combines them into new life forms. The newborn creatures seem to result from strange experiments on human bodies in an esthetics lab.

Rața’s works forge a contextual change of the anatomic detail through its obsessive multiplication. The materials used, and the resulting industrial look, question the assault on individual personality in a climate of commercial branding uniformity. The concept of “hand-foot” and the “unsuccessful blessing” symbol strengthens the idea behind the work, delicately propelling it into the realm of grotesque. The torso also evokes a twist of reality, the socially provocative themes of sexual identity and the hermaphrodite. He uses new materials as polystyrene, industrial paint, plaster, synthetic resin.

”I am an artist especially approaching sculpture and drawing in a figurative, realistic manner (not hyper-realistic, as some people say, as I do not try to represent an exterior image of the human body but a reality that distort human beings), with powerful conceptual influence. Through my works, by unobtrusively using emblematic images, in order to offer credibility and to underline my intentions, I propose the change of the context for the anatomic detail, through obsessive multiplication and continuous attribution of new functions in the portrait composition.” – Bogdan Rața

Bogdan Rața is particularly interested that his works surprise fear, confusion, uncertainty and corporal disorder. ”I work with human fragments which I combine in order to create images with a strong emotional impact: frustration, fright, shame. I reinterpret the human body precisely in order to induce a state of confusion to the reader and to in a way force him to understand, from a different perspective, the contemporary human being. A finger can be stronger than a rifle, an ear more frustrating than an interrogation.” Bogdan Rața

Bogdan Rața (b. 1984, Baia Mare, Romania) received his PHD at West University Timisoara, sculpture department, in 2013 and the M.A. at National University of Art Bucharest, sculpture department, Bucharest in 2008.
Bogdan Rața is represented by Nasui Collection & Gallery Romania.
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