Events

JUNE 2021. The Fine Arts Museum from 2 Grigore Antipa Street, invites visitors to contemplate the work “Composition (Cycle of Soul Flowers)” (oil / cardboard), belonging to the painting collection, a work whose creator is Hans Mattis-Teutsch ( b. August 13, 1884, Brașov- d. March 17, 1960, Brașov).

“My goal is: to create abstract works through pictorial and plastic means.”
                                                                                                               Hans Mattis-Teutsch

JUNE 2021.  Avramide House from 32 Progresului Street, invites visitors to contemplate “Bahut”, a piece of furniture that is part of the European Decorative Art Collection.

The exhibit, specific to the 19th century, is made of lime, oak and fir wood with metal accessories and is a closet whose function was to store crockery and cutlery.

The Fine Arts Museum from Grigore Antipa Street, no. 2, invites visitors to contemplate the work “Flowers”, belonging to the painting collection, work whose creator is Dumitru Ghiață (b. September 22, 1888, Colibași, Mehedinți – July 3, 1972 , Bucharest).

“Life is so full of worries. Evil and trouble come too often and uninvited by anyone. But beauty is won through struggle, through passion. ”
Dumitru Ghiață

Dumitru Ghiaţă was born on September 22, 1888 in Colibaşi, Mehedinţi County, the son of Gheorghe Ghiaţă and Elisabeta Ghiaţă. During high school, his drawing teacher V. Ravici intuited his talent, and a few months later Ghiaţă began to attend the studio of the painter Artur Verona. Between 1913-1914 he attended the courses of the Ranson and Delecluze Academies in Paris, becoming acquainted with post-impressionist techniques, which he will assimilate in a personal way in his works: still lifes, landscapes and compositions in sober colors, with influences from folk art.
Ghiaţă was part, along with Petraşcu, Pallady, Sirato, Iser, Tonitza, St. Dimitrescu, Bunescu, Catargi, Ciucurencu from the brilliant pleiad of artists who have fully asserted themselves between the two world wars. He knew how to realize the confluence of what was more alive and related to the human in Romanian and universal art, having his own vision and style.
Source: http://galeriaromana.ro/ghiata-dumitru-un-artist-incantator-si-complet/
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Between February 25 and May 25, 2021, at the “Danube Delta” Ecotourism Museum Center from 14 Noiembrie Street, no. 1, the public will be able to watch and appreciate the exhibition “An artist from Tulcea”, which comprises works by the artist Viorel Vasile.

What the organizers say:

”The artisan artist Viorel Vasile was born in 1960 in Tulcea. He is a graduate of the Metallurgical High School in the city.
Passionate about beauty, he loves painting and sculpture, proving that, where there is talent and inspiration, art can be made from almost anything, even from fish bones.
Carefully, the artist, inspired by the area in which he lives, transforms fish bones into original creations.
Many of his works, presented in international exhibitions, can be viewed on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T57hcn94SeY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNiOilKOPEU. ”
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Between October 14th and November 12th, 2021, artists members of the Romanian Plastic Artists Union or the national Unions of Visual Artists from abroad, as well as graduates and students of art academies in the country and abroad are invited to participate at the exhibition – competition Biennial of painting “ALEXANDRU CIUCURENCU”. 

Contact for details: museographer Petre Teodorescu, e-mail: arta@icemtl.ro

FEBRUARY 2021. The Art Museum from Grigore Antipa Street, no. 2, invites visitors to contemplate the work “Homage to Miro”, belonging to the painting collection,  whose creator is Iulian Olariu (1922 – 1991).

The sculptor, painter, graphic artist Iulian Olariu graduated in 1951 from the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Nicolae Dărăscu and Alexandru Ciucurencu are among his teachers.
In addition to personal exhibitions in 1957, 1959, 1964, 1966 and 1970, Iulian Olariu has represented Romania in numerous group exhibitions in Finland, Poland, Austria, Germany, the USSR, Cuba, Bulgaria, China.

In 1960, he was one of the participants in the Venice Biennale, along with artists such as George Petrașcu and Marcel Chirnoaga.

Sources: http://www.sculpture.ro/fisa.php?id=640 , https://www.cosminnasui.com/2016/03/iulian-olariu/ , http://www.cultura.ro/bienala-de-la-venetia

JANUARY 2021. The Fine Arts Museum from Grigore Antipa Street, no. 2, invites visitors to contemplate the work “Maternity”, belonging to the sculpture collection, work whose creator is Ion Irimescu (b. February 27, 1903, Arghira, Suceava- d. October 29, 2005, Fălticeni, Suceava).

Considered the most important Romanian sculptor of the last half century, Ion Irimescu is one of those artists with spectacular work and biography devoid of fate-changing events. In the many years he lived, he crossed several epochs and regimes, traveled, studied and exhibited in many countries, never getting tired.

“The sculpture did not require any effort, it was given to me as a gift from God.”
“The absolute beauty, which we actually covet, does not belong to us humans. If, by absurdity, we could reach him, we would reject him, because he would make us uncomfortable, not being in line with our earthly limits. It remains a dream, an ideal, which can never be realized. ”

Ion Irimescu

Source: https://ionirimescu.wordpress.com/artistul/

DANUBE DELTA AND DOBROGEA – ROMANIA, legendary landscapes

As a Christmas present for this hard year, the well known researcher, Dr. Mihai Petrescu,  offers his new bilingual album comprising 160 pages of photos with comments. 

A present which reminds us the beauty of nature and its soul healing powers.

Author’s words:

“Danube Delta and Dobrogea have remained a timeless land, even under the roller of modernism. It is rare to see a more lively place, with a hidden charm, which delights the eye but especially the soul. Here any extraordinary natural formation, the mountains, the Danube, the Black Sea, the various tribes of Dobrogea, all have a story, a legend that enhances their beauty and mystery. In order to enjoy the whole charm of these legends, however, I recommend reading them in original, especially the synthesis works, (C. Cealera, E.D. Gemală, A. Mitru  etc.). Some of the stories are unedited, being told to me by the locals, as an ancestral heritage.

            No matter how incredible they may be, they deserve to be recorded, being the last snippets that the locals remember, from the treasure trove of stories inspired by Dobrogea, or brought from their homelands, along with relics or icons. Just as legends have a kernel of truth, also scientific truths acquire in Dobrogea the fabulous note of legends. The stories of Dobrogea recount about the vanished secular forests, now replaced by steppes, about islands and cities sunk in the incessant change of the course of the Danube or of the sea shores, about an underground network of rivers, natural caves, or tunnels dug for strategic purposes, many of which have not been identified so far.

            The wonderful landscapes of former Dobrogea are today largely preserved in protected areas of European importance (Natura 2000). They represent true oases of natural beauty in an environment that becomes more and more artificial due to human activities. Besides the conservation of flora, fauna, geological environment, these protected areas have a cultural importance, through the associated legends, ethnicities or archaeological vestiges, with which I tried to complete the charm of these reserves in the present book. I wrote this book primarily for the public to fall in love with the land of Dobrogea and the Danube Delta, in the hope that this way this region will be better protected.”

See glimpses at https://web.facebook.com/icemtulcea/photos/pcb.3626724634054672/3626717980722004/

For sale (price 150 lei)  at TULCEA AQUARIUM shop (DANUBE DELTA ECO–TOURISM MUSEUM CENTER, 1, 14 Noiembrie Street, phone nr.: 0340105652) or

 Orders for courier: petrescumihai1234@gmail.com        

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