Alexandru Antik Sándor (b. 1950) is a Cluj-based artist whose work revolves around experimental activity, mainly in the fields of performance, installation and multimedia art. He has been a constant presence on the Romanian art scene since the end of the 1970s, when he was a member of the Atelier 35 movement of young artists. Since 1990 he has participated in numerous exhibitions of performance and multimedia art both in Romania and abroad. He created the Utopia in Art show broadcast on TVR Cluj in 1998-9. He has been an editor of the contemporary art journal Balkon (1999-2002) and a visual editor of the political culture journal Provincia (2001-2002), and until this year he taught in the Arts Department of Partium Christian University, Oradea.
After completing his studies in the ceramics department of the Cluj Institute of Arts, the artist began to question the status of the object as the end point of artistic activity. In the artifacts in the auction, it is the humorous, caricatural language that undermines the validity of the classical genres of sculpture, whether the equestrian statue or the porcelain bibelot. These objects, even if critical, have their beauty. They precede the so-called Object Hypotheses, in which the artist conceptually redefines artistic creation as the entire creative process, not just the resulting object.
(Székely Sebestyén György)