Artist Profile: tavianton
From Ploiesti, Prahova - Submitted (3)

About:
Anton Octavian is born on 10 th April 1986 in Romania. His artistic work has started with the year 1998 – November – when he received the honourable mention at the Painting Competition in Deva and one year later (March, 1999) participated in a group exhibition at “Save the Children” Organization, Bucharest. In the July of 2002 another group exhibition that took place at George Enescu’s Memorial House in Sinaia enjoyed the work of Anton Octavian. Just one year later, in August 2003, the group exhibition from Baisoara, Cluj county brought him a very important personal prize, the Jury Prize at the International Fest Art, which later on was followed by another group exhibition at the High School of Art from Ploiesti in May 2005. After graduating the High School of Art from Ploiesti in 2005, he went to the University of West, Faculty of Art, Timisoara where at present he is a student in the 2nd year. In January this year www.bookcrossing.com has chosen one of his paintings, In My Dream as a sign book in order to be printed in 50.000 copies. 1998 november Group Exhibition in Deva painting; 1999 march Group Exhibition in Bucharest “Save the Children” Organisation painting; 2002 july Group Exhibition in Sinaia George Enescu’s Memorial House painting; 2003 august Group Exhibition in Baisoara, Cluj County sculpture; 2005 may Group Exhibition in Ploiesti High School of Art sculpture; 2007 may Group Exhibition in Sibiu International Unconventional Arts Festival La Strada sculpture. List of films made by Anton Octavian: 2007 “Cut” [01:12]; 2007 “Frame” [01:40] ( participated with this film to the Tres Courts Festival, the national selection @ the Tres Courts and also to SIMULTAN03); 2007 “The Tape of Memories” [05:00] (selected at aniMOTION European Animation Festival from Sibiu)(International Animated Film festival BALKANIMA 2007)(Anim'est 2007);2007 “Whatever” [01:00] (Anim'est 2007) Anton Octavian as an actor played in: 2007 “Twoone” [01:00] (the film received the honourable mention at the Tres Courts Festival, the national Around the Tres Courts and was distributed to TVR Timisoara)

Interests:
all about art, animation, film, music and culture

Aspires to:
do original art and animation