SEPTEMBER 2021. The Art Museum, 2, Grigore Antipa Street, invites visitors to contemplate the work “Peasants” – oil / cardboard, belonging to the painting collection, a work whose creator is Camil Ressu (b. January 28, 1880, Galați – d. April 1, 1962, Bucharest).

“He painted and interpreted our Romanian life, the only truly Romanian life, of the peasant enclosed between waters, forests, skies and hearth”, wrote Tudor Arghezi about Camil Ressu’s painting.

AUGUST 2021. The Fine Arts Museum, 2, Grigore Antipa Street, invites visitors to contemplate the work “Girls picking fruit” – oil / cardboard, belonging to the painting collection, work whose creator is Rodica Maniu (b. March 11 1890, Bucharest – d. May 14, 1958, Bucharest).

“In direct contact with her world, without preconceptions, without counterfeits, more or less archaic, Rodica Maniu knew how to portray it directly, spontaneously, based on technical perfection – the fruit of a long occupation of good pictorial quality. The poetry emanated from her position as an artist generally gives her painting the true charm lived and transposed, which remains a great art lesson for us, her colleagues and a message for the youngest.” (M. H. Maxy)

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