(b Oasele, 26 Feb 1935). Romanian sculptor and teacher. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts ‘N. Grigorescu’, Bucharest (1963–70). From 1970 he took part in exhibitions in Romania and abroad, such as the International Biennial for Small Sculpture, Budapest (1973) and the Venice Biennale (1988). He belonged to a generation that tried to recapture Brancusi’s morphology, and to add to it new folkloric elements. Tiron’s concern in sculpture was fragmentation, division and a form of collage. Both in his works in wood, which were on the scale of domestic furniture, and in his monumental open-air sculptures, he was concerned to adapt the role of sculpture to the multimedia environment of contemporary art: one way he achieved this was to make the gesture of cutting wood into kindling, as if re-creating the ancient process of wood cutting (e.g. 1983; Bucharest, Village Mus.). These fragments of carvings were then laid out on Minimalist fields, according to a planned design (see installation view, Redlow, p. 11), assembled, tied with string and glued, in order to create a monumental self-supporting anthropomorphic structure, through which air and light circulate (see installation view, Redlow, p. 10). Some of these unconventional sculptures were exhibited in a one-man show at the Galeria de Artà Dalles in Bucharest (1986). Later Tiron concentrated on using piles of stone slabs, coloured and glued together, cut transversely and polished into vaguely phallic forms, paralleling his earlier large anthropomorphic work. In 1990 he was appointed professor at the Fine Art Academy in Bucharest.