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09/10/2026

IOMO Gallery is pleased to announce the exclusive worldwide representation of Romanian sculptor Mircea Roman (b. 1958, Tîrgu Lăpuș, Maramureș). Formalising this relationship is a natural step in IOMO Gallery’s continued commitment to promoting Mircea Roman’s extensive practice and safeguarding his legacy, both in Romania and worldwide.

Regarded as one of the most influential Romanian sculptors of his generation, Roman carries the memory of carved wood into a radically contemporary language, where figures are not carved from a single block but assembled from fragments.

Winner of the Grand Prize of the Osaka Sculpture Triennale (1992) and exhibited at the Venice Biennale (1995), his work is held in the collections of MNAC and the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest and the Osaka Prefecture museum.

The representation builds on a long-standing collaboration between the artist and IOMO.

Through the representation, IOMO Gallery will support Roman’s new production, present his work to international audiences and institutions, and continue documenting and preserving the archive of a practice that holds a distinct place in the history of Romanian sculpture.

The catalogue “Mircea Roman: The fighting changes the taste of meat”, published by IOMO Gallery in a bilingual Romanian–English edition, will soon be available at Cărturești, online and in stores. It is also available directly from the gallery or on request by emailing [email protected], with worldwide shipping.

01/10/2026

Mircea Roman has worked almost exclusively with the human figure since the late 1980s, carving it in wood at a scale that exceeds the body and hollowing it beneath a closed surface, so that the figure stands as a shell rather than a mass. He has pursued that one problem with a consistency that places him among the most significant Romanian sculptors of his generation.

IOMO Gallery has now published Mircea Roman: Lupta schimbă gustul cărnii / The Fighting Changes the Taste of Meat, the catalogue of his 2025 exhibition at the gallery, which brought together seven sculptures, among them the monumental Jacob’s Fight with the Angel. Alongside the reproductions, the volume includes a curatorial text by Horațiu Lipot and an interview with the artist conducted by Remus Andrei Ion, who also designed the book, and it appears in Romanian and English throughout.

The publication appears in two special editions of fifty copies each, every copy accompanied by an original drawing Roman made in 2026 for the occasion. The first edition carries the coloured drawings, which are presented in the show currently on view, Mircea Roman: 1/50; the second carries drawings in ink on paper, and each of those, like every drawing in the series, is original and unique.

Both editions are available at the gallery, as well as the standard catalogue copies, and on request at [email protected], from where we ship worldwide.

The exhibition Mircea Roman: 1/50 remains on view until Sunday, 4 October.

Băiculești 29, Bucharest, Romania
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Friday to Sunday, 12 pm to 11:45 pm

26/09/2026

In the interview published in the artist’s catalogue, Roman describes Lupta lui Iacob cu Îngerul, 2021–2024, as the beginning of something: “The largest and most complex work. Actually, the largest work is the basis of the exhibition. And so, a bit of a new direction in my work also started from this work.” Of its figure he said: “It’s not a character over the wall, it’s a character who is somehow trapped in the wall.”

Jacob returns in “Iacob și aripa”, 2026, Mircea Roman’s most recent monumental sculpture.

The monograph opens with the artist’s own definition of what he makes: “I made sculpture with body and soul. The soul had to differ from the body. The body, let us say, had s*x and legs, while to the soul I gave a portrait, a hand and wings, so that it could rise and be other than the body. So I gave my sculptures souls.”

Înger de colț, 1997, is reproduced in the same book, and Alexandra Titu describes a cycle of angels in the sculpture of those years. Dinu Moraru characterises the recurring forms: figures that lose their hands or feet, heads replaced by boxes and funnels fitted with interior steps that recede into darkness, and voids that function as “interrogative openings toward the human soul.”

After Osaka, working on the second Trup și suflet, Roman arrived at what he called “the body toward the horizontal and only the soul vertical.”

1/50 is on view through 4 October. Băiculești 29, Bucharest. Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 to 19:00.

18/09/2026

MIRCEA ROMAN. 1/50 is now on view at the gallery.

In his 2018 monograph, Alexandru Davidian situates Roman’s works on paper as accompanying prefaces to the sculptures, distinguishing between those that anticipate a work and those undertaken as a form of active rest once one is concluded. Conceived in 2026 for the publication of the catalogue “Mircea Roman: Lupta schimbă gustul cărnii”, the fifty drawings gathered here revisit a repertoire of figures the artist has sustained across his practice, each paired with a copy of the bibliophile edition, in the position a preface would occupy.

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MIRCEA ROMAN: 1/50
Fifty drawings and the launch of the artist’s catalogue

17 September – 4 October 2026
Băiculești 29, Bucharest · Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00–19:00

17/09/2026

Opening tonight, IOMO Gallery presents “Mircea Roman. 1/50”, an exhibition of fifty new drawings marking the launch of the catalogue dedicated to “Lupta schimbă gustul cărnii / The Fighting Changes the Taste of Meat”, the artist’s solo exhibition held at the gallery in autumn 2025.

Published by IOMO Gallery in a bilingual Romanian–English edition, the catalogue brings together the seven sculptures presented in the exhibition, with photography, concept and layout by Remus Andrei Ion Remusandrei Ion.

For the bibliophile edition, Mircea Roman created fifty original drawings, each conceived as a unique work and paired exclusively with one copy. Returning to a visual repertoire developed since the late 1980s—the human shell, the pyramid, the boat-man and Jacob—the drawings extend the artist’s sustained exploration of the human figure and its tension between fragility and monumentality.

Presented together for the duration of “1/50”, the drawings form an exhibition in their own right. This will be the only occasion on which all fifty can be seen together before they leave with their respective editions.

MIRCEA ROMAN. 1/50
Fifty drawings and the launch of the artist’s catalogue

Opening tonight, 17 September, 18:00
On view until 4 October 2026
IOMO Gallery, Băiculești 29, Bucharest

The catalogues and their corresponding drawings are available for purchase. For further information or to receive a preview of the available works, contact [email protected].

09/09/2026

The fifty drawings in 1/50 return to a set of figures Mircea Roman has been developing since the late 1980s.

The human shell appears in his 1989 exhibition at Galeria Orizont: a box-like body standing on bare feet, its head opening into a hollow that discloses nothing. Andrei Pintilie, writing at the time, observed that what Roman opens is not a void within the sculpture but a void taken out of it. The figure has recurred since in wood, bronze and brass, at two metres and at seven centimetres.

Alongside it, the pyramid walking on two feet, the boat-man, and Jacob. Roman’s figures appear pneumatic, constituted as outer membranes of the sculptural volume, disconnected from any rigid core. Their faces remain impenetrable. Their feet do not: the soles are given a care withheld from everything above them, and Aurelia Mocanu identified the neck and the ankle as the narrow passages through which the human crosses into the fabricated.

Drawing has run alongside the sculpture throughout. Pietà existed in watercolour before it was carved; the cat was drawn in one position after another over years before she became an object. In these fifty, made this year, the order is reversed, the drawings returning to figures the sculptures had already resolved.

The exhibition 1/50 opens Thursday 17 September, 18:00.

For inquiries about the available drawings and to receive a preview of the exhibition, please contact [email protected].
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Featured images:

Oratorul galben / Yellow Speaker (2026)
Installation view, Mircea Roman, Galeria Orizont, Sala Atelier 35, Bucharest, April 1989
O piramidă se ridică / A Pyramid is Rising (2026)
Piramidă (2026)
Mircea Roman, Pietà, 2013. Wood, 100 × 250 × 200 cm
Fusta / Skirt (2026)
Sacrificiu (2026)
Installation view, Mircea Roman, Galeria Orizont, Sala Atelier 35, Bucharest, April 1989
Portret Omul barcă / Portrait of the Boat-Man (2026)
Mircea Roman, Un alt om barcă, 2014. Wood, 452 × 80 × 105 cm. Simpozionul Național de Artă Lepșa, 2014

07/09/2026

Looking back at Mircea Roman’s solo exhibition, Lupta schimbă gustul cărnii, presented at IOMO Gallery in autumn 2025 and curated by Horațiu Lipot.

Bringing together seven sculptures, the exhibition traced the tension that runs throughout Roman’s practice: between the human figure and the fabricated object, fragility and monumentality, process and representation. Built through fragmentation and reassembly, his works retain the visible evidence of their construction, while recent pieces extend this sculptural language from the body towards the felled trunk presented as a trophy.

The exhibition is now documented in a newly published bilingual Romanian–English catalogue, bringing together installation views, the works presented, and critical and biographical texts that place them within the wider arc of Roman’s practice. At its centre is the monumental Jacob’s Fight with the Angel, alongside Hollow Trophy and the artist’s recent series of trophies.

Published by IOMO Gallery, with concept, photography and design by Remus Andrei Ion, the catalogue is also available in a special edition of fifty copies, each accompanied by a unique original drawing by Mircea Roman.

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MIRCEA ROMAN: 1/50
Fifty drawings and the launch of the artist’s catalogue
Opening Thursday 17 September, 6PM

On view: 17 September - 4 October 2026

06/09/2026

Starting September 18, with the new show on view MIRCEA ROMAN: 1/50, we’re happy to welcome visitors with updated gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 to 7pm.

MIRCEA ROMAN: 1/50 opens 17 September and remains on view through 4 October. Fifty new drawings, presented alongside the catalogue they accompany.

Looking forward to your visits!

IOMO Gallery, Baiculesti 29, Bucharest.

Featured artwork:
Mircea Roman
Adam și Eva, 2026
Mixed media on thin cardboard
11 3/8 x 9 in
29 x 23 cm

04/09/2026

“Mircea Roman: The fighting changes the taste of meat” is the first monograph dedicated to the artist’s recent work, documenting in full his 2025 solo exhibition at IOMO Gallery.

The publication brings together the seven sculptures of the exhibition, photographed in the gallery and in detail. Among them is “Jacob’s Fight with the Angel”, developed over three years and the work around which the exhibition was conceived. A curatorial text by Horațiu Lipot situates the body of work within the artist’s engagement with fragility, monumentality and the human figure. An extended conversation between Roman and Remus Andrei Ion, conducted in the studio, accompanies it, alongside critical and biographical material placing the works in the arc of a practice now spanning over four decades.

Bilingual Romanian–English. A limited edition of fifty copies, each accompanied by an original drawing by the artist, created as a unique work and paired exclusively with that copy.

Published by IOMO Gallery, 2026. Launching 17 September alongside “1/50”, an exhibition of the fifty drawings.

For inquiries about the available drawings and to receive a preview of the exhibition, please contact [email protected].

03/09/2026

MIRCEA ROMAN. 1/50
Fifty drawings and the launch of the artist’s catalogue
Opening Thursday 17 September, 6PM

IOMO Gallery presents 1/50, an exhibition of fifty new drawings by Mircea Roman, marking the launch of the catalogue documenting Lupta schimbă gustul cărnii, his solo exhibition held at the gallery in autumn 2025.

Published by IOMO Gallery in a bilingual Romanian–English edition, the catalogue gathers the seven sculptures of the exhibition, among them its monumental centrepiece, Jacob’s Fight with the Angel. Critical and biographical texts place the works in the arc of his practice.

Each of the fifty copies in the limited edition is accompanied by an original drawing, created as a unique work and paired exclusively with that copy. The copies and their drawings are available for purchase, and the exhibition offers the only opportunity to see all fifty drawings together before they leave with their respective copies.

Roman’s work has held to the human figure for nearly four decades, built through fragmentation and reassembly rather than carving from a single mass, and marked throughout by a tension between fragility and monumentality. The fifty drawings return to a repertoire he has developed since the late 1980s: the human shell, the pyramid, the boat-man, Jacob.

Winner of the Grand Prize at the Osaka Sculpture Triennale in 1992 and included in the Venice Biennale in 1995, he is one of the most significant Romanian sculptors of his generation.

Enquiries: [email protected]

17 September – 4 October 2026
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