Bogdan Raţă

Education Rața studied sculpture at the West University of Timișoara (2003–2006). In 2008 he got his M.A. in sculpture at the Bucharest National University of Arts and in 2012 his PhD at the West University of Timișoara.

Rață is focused mainly on human anatoforms. Using polyester, paint, metal, and synthetic resin he twists, deforms, and shapes human bodies forming hybrid and grotesque anatomic mutations.

His works represents deformed and hideous human bodies or parts of it. Rață is interested in the issues of perception and human figure in sculpture:

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. Punk (2008), Torsso (2008), Lonely (2011), The Cure (2010), Tits (2010), The Middle Way (2014), The Pressure (2015) etc.

Teaching Besides his artistic career, Rață is also a lecturer at the West University of Timișoara.

Exhibitions Since 2007, Rață's work has been exhibited both nationally, in Timișoara, Bucharest, Sibiu, Baia Mare and internationally in Liverpool (UK), Paris (France), New York (U.S.), Moscow and St. Petersburg (Russia), Venice (Italy), Tel Aviv (Israel), Cascais (Portugal) and Budapest (Hungary).