Serghei Litvin Manoliu

Self-portrait, crayon on milar, 2007, New York

Serghei Litvin Manoliu is an artist, writer and blogger and the founder of the International Fair of 21st-Century Drawing. He was born in Bucharest in 1953. His four grandparents were of four different nationalities: Polish, Romanian, Russian and German. He currently lives between Paris and New York.

Biography

Serghei Litvin Manoliu was born in 1953. His father was a theatre manager. His mother was a professor of Byzantine iconography. He is the descendant of three generations of painters. Attracted to drawing very early in life, he had his first exhibition when he was only 19. Between 1967 and 1968 he travelled across Italy and Sweden before settling in Paris. Since 2003, the artist has shared his time between his studio in New York studio and his Parisian ties.

He has had about twenty solo exhibitions and featured in as many fairs: New York, Cape Town, Paris Venice; etc. His works are exhibited in museums in the United States (Washington, D.C., Corpus Christi - Texas) and France (Tulle, Brive).

Serghei Litvin Manoliu also writes short texts for a number of blogs,[1] critical articles, sketchbooks and artist’s books.[2] These texts are always bilingual (French and English). Some of them are published at the author's expense with a print run of a few hundreds copies and sold by the La Hune bookshop[3] in Paris, the Tate Modern bookshop in London and Printed Matter in New York. "Guns (Loaded?)", published in 2007 by Lélia Mordoch, was produced in collaboration with the renowned New York writer Andrew Solomon.

He first had the idea of creating a platform dedicated to contemporary drawing in Brooklyn in 2006. In 2007 in Paris, he founded the Cercle D, a club of drawing connoisseurs. In February 2008, he launched the 21st-Century Drawing Blog. The first edition of the International Fair of 21st-Century Drawing took place in Paris in March 2009. And FID 2010 took places in March 2010, presenting exclusively art students from sixteen European major schools (Milano, Belgrad, London, Paris, Brussels, Helsinki...)

Artist books

Solo exhibitions

Institutional collections

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