Mircea Roman is a sculptor who has exhibited widely since his graduation in 1984 from BA- the Fine Art Institute 'Ion Andreescu' Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Mircea Roman pertains to a post- and rather anti-Brancusi heritage of Romanian sculpture. Although working in wood too, he takes something else from it than Brancusi, something less formalist and conceptual, less archetypal and mystical, less avant-garde-like.

Contraryto Brancusi, he is not expression the human (or the biological in general) as an abstract sign, repressing through the work the proper carnality of each being. Mircea Roman is working on every wooden body as on a man or a woman, as on a definite, irreducible individual, a unique, painful and joyful flesh. Even the exhibited craftsmanship takes another sense in his work than in that of Brancusi. His is a blatant ritual of the touchingly rhetoric, fleshy hands of the working artists, not the elusive, self-negating, perfectionist polishing Brancusi, who tried to efface the work of the hands from the work of art that equated, in this way, the consummate, aseptic work of the mind.

Mircea Roman's theatre of powerlessness, of human frailty, acquiescence, vulnerability and subjection is not written, but minutely crafted. His work consists of a procession of broken wooden containers, of aggressively painted body-cases, and open boxes endowed with human limbs. They have torsos and heads, exhibiting pulp breasts and rough, humble feet together with their innermost emptiness, the excruciatingly deep and dull, accurately delineated craters of their missing substance, their absent core. Woodworm holes of some elusive, retractile if not excised selves. Ones that left their bare body behind them, thus turning it into mere, contentless frozen persona, the same way worms leave the apple they ate, which is still in a good shape and colourful, though its very soft flesh is corrupted.