MIHAI TOPESCU - GLASS ARTIST

Studies:
1977-1981 - Academy of Fine Arts "I. Andreescu" , Cluj, Romania
1985           - Kunst Akademie Baden , Vienna, Austria

Exhibitions:
1982: National Design Exhibition - Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania
1983:  National Graphic Exhibition - Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania
1984: Quadrennial of Decorative Arts - Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania
1985: Design Triennial - Dalles Hall, Bucharest , Romania
1986: Trienial of Decorative Arts - Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania
1987: "Young Glass '87" An International Competition, Glassmuseum,Ebeltoft, Danemark
1988: Decorative Glass Exhibition - Art Museum , Bucharest, Romania
1988: Mezinarodni Skalarske Symposium Novy-Bor, Cehia
1988: "Spaces & Light" Galerie Orizon , Bucharest, Romania
1988: International Exhibition of Glass Craft , Kanazawa, Japan
1989: Galerie L, hamburg, Germany
1990: “Glasnost from Eastern Europe”, Galerie Transparence, Bruxelles, Belgium
1991: International Glass Contest, Kanazawa, Japan
1993: Glass of Romania, Galerie Orizont, Bucharest, Romania
1994: Internationale Glaskunst, Kunsthaus am Museum, Carola Von Han, Köln, Germany
1995: Decorative Art Exhibition The Art Galleries, Bacau, Romania
2002: Glass of Romania, Gallery Orizont, Bucharest, Romania
2002: Personal Exhibitions at Romart Gallery,Holland
2002: Centre Cultural Sudhaina D'Chimay,Belgique
2002:Glasrijk Tubbergen,Holland

Awards:
1988: 1st prize, Romanian Ministry of Industry - Prize for Glass Design
1992: Silver medal,The American Interfaith Institute Prize, Philadelphia, USA
1993: 1st prize, National Prize for Glass Design , Bucharest, Romania

Symposium:
1985: The Second International Glass Symposium, Novy-Bor, Cehia
1988: The Third International Glass Symposium , Novy-Bor, Cehia
1990: Plein Air International Symposium , Libenau-Cottbus, Germany
1990: International Stained Glass Symposium, Vilnius, Lithuania

One Man Exhibition:
1986: "Spaces and Light" The Art Galleries , Targu-Jiu, Romania
1986: "Glass" Gallery Art Ind ,Bucharest, Romania
1989: "Glass" Gallery Turn-Cottbus , Germany
1990: "Glass" The Art Galleries, Targu-Jiu, Romania
1992: "Glass" Country Museum, Targu-Jiu, Romania
1995: "Glass" The Art Galleries, Targu-Jiu, Romania

Bibliography:

Catalogue :
 Interglass Symposium Ceskoslovonsko, I.G.S. 1982 - 1985 , Novy-Bor, pag. 100
Catalogue :
 Young Glass '87 - An International Competition, Ebelfort: Glassmuseum 1987, pag. 80
Catalogue :
 The international Exhibition of Glass Craft '88, Kanazawa , pag. 81
Catalogue :
 The International Exhibition of Glass 1990, Kanazawa, pag. 105
Book :
 Irvin J. Borowsky (editor), Artists Confronting the Inconceivable : Awart Winning Glass Sculpture ,Philadelphia, US 1992, pag. 77
Catalogue :
 The first Tokyo Crafts Expo '92, Tokyo, Japan Art Pulishing Co. Ltd. 1992, pag. 61
Catalogue :
 Spiel, Satz, Sieg und Pokall - Noika Masters Tennis, Essen, 1991, pag. 21
Jurnal :
  Revue du Verr Nr. 3, 1989, pag 10, 41, Praha, Cehia
Jurnal :
 Mihaita Gigi "A Space Full of Meanings" in Krantai, Nr. 27, 1991, pag. 33-35 , Vilnius, Lithuania
Jurnal :
 Nicolae Diaconu "Literatorul" Nr. 38-39, 1992, pag. 27, Bucharest, Romania
Dictionary :
 Joachin Waldrich Verlag "Who's Who in Contemporany Glass Art" , 1993-1994, pag. 561, Munchen, 1993 Germany
Encyclopaedia 
Catalogue:
 Romanian Contemporany Artists, vol. IV, pag. 182
 Glass Art ,Peter Layton 1996, pag. 60 


 
 
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