# Napoleon Tiron 1986 Sala Dalles show documentary movie

"The output of one iteration becomes the input of another iteration, on and on and on" (Arthur C. Clarke) NAPO (*nickname of Napoleon Tiron) is a Romanian artist born in 1935. This is one of the few, if not the only existing copy of an original VHS video documenting the work and ensuing major solo show by "Napo" from 1986 at the Sala Dalles Gallery in Bucharest/Romania. As a result of this show, his work got selected for the Romanian Pavilion at 1988 edition of the Venice Biennale, of which there is very few actual remaining documentation. After 1989 he became for a few years a professor at the art academy in Bucharest. He participated at numerous exhibitions, shows and symposiums throughout the years. Napoleon Tiron is considered one of the most important, if reclusive Romanian artists of the 20th century. The final scaled-up result of his constructive work method consists in towering humanoid/quasi-humanoid shapes emerging out of a growing aggregate mass made up of very basic subunits - arm-length, rudimentary, modular pieces (usually 3) of plain chopped wood. At the low end, these subunits are composed of various spatial twists, meeting at various angles at the two joints. Each subunit contains two joints with only one of the pieces (the central wooden piece) ending in two separate joints. Such chained subunits are responsible for the growth of form. These subunits in turn, are the building blocks making up larger and larger sculptural macro-units that add up to larger…

- Kind: Documentary
- Year: 1986
- By: Dan Paduraru & Titi Calist
- Genres: Documentary
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/01.NAPOVTS011)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/01.NAPOVTS011?play=1)