Don’t miss: Bucharest Art Week

Newsroom 22/09/2014 | 12:48

The first Bucharest Art Week will run under the theme “cities, borders and attitudes”, structured around the need for experiment and cultural exchange between artists from European countries, especially from Central and Eastern Europe, between September 26 to October 4.

It will involve a series of artistic events organized in public spaces, interspersed with art expos, open workshops, talks, tours and auxiliary happenings in galleries, alternative spaces and cultural centers.

Proceedings open at Foisorul de Foc / The Fire Tower (33 Ferdinand Blvd.) with a collective exhibition by 29 artists, Inner Fire, a Matter of Limits / Arderea interioara, o chestiune de limite. Musical act Fierbinteanu will perform live at the launch.

Carol 53 (53 Carol I Blvd.) will host another collective exhibition by a group of young artists presenting graphics, paintings and installations, a manifesto named BITUM by Razvan Anghelache, Alexandra Baciu, Bianca Ionita and Daniela Virlan.

Japanese artist Tomoaki Minoda will have a photography exhibition, Bucharest Today at Galeria IX (9 Aviatorilor Blvd.). Another space that will be given over to contemporary arts is Home Matasari (17 Matasari St.), which hosts the first personal painting exhibition of Adrian Dica, who presents to the public The Big Trash Can / Marele Tomberon, around the idea of ​​trash and damage to the personal values under pressure to obtain social validation. Fifteen artists from Cluj Napoca will also reveal a joint canvas.

Gara de Nord (1-3 Gara de Nord Square) will host five days of video content courtesy of the artists Petru Ionescu – The Line, Maia Stefana Oprea – Lining, Dijana Tomik Radevska – Drama of Gesture and Insomnia, Dimitris Palade – Fringe Dance, plus others.

The National Library of Romania (22 Unirii Blvd.) plays host to two exhibitions during Bucharest Art Week, one in collaboration with The Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, called Witnesses, featuring testimonials, as well as an international exhibition, Balkan Mood: Focus Macedonia, which brings under the spotlights Macedonian artists Srdjan Micic, Orhan Kamilov, Dijana Tomik Radevska, Marina Leskova, Stefan Jakimovski and Sotir Hadji Nikolov along with their Romanian counterparts, Alexandra Baciu, Anca Branzas, Alexandra Pasca, Razvan Anghelache and Florina Nita.

Solitar Urban / Lonely Urban is another group exhibition due to take place at the Curtea Veche Museum (21 Franceza St.), featuring Cristi Gaspar, Raluca Ghideanu, Grupul Foc(AR) (Alina Tudor and Razvan Neagoe), Lucian Muntean, Christian Paraschiv, Justinian Scarlatescu and Maria Pop Timaru.

A double event will be hosted by Galeria Occidentului (11 Occidentului St.): The Reconstruction of the Fragment / Refacerea fragmentului, a painting exhibition by Matei Enric and Musicals, a contemporary jewelry design show by Alexandru Burlacu.

The week ends at Dianei 4 (4 Dianei St.) with a closing party that will follow Alex Baciu’s Ghost Host exhibition.

Business Review readers are recommended to pay attention as they pass through the center of the city, where Bucharest Art Week will present a series of art manifestos by the artists EGG NO EGO (Valentina Chirita, Ana Barbu, Mina Barbu), Delia Maxim, Paul Popa, Matei Ulmeanu, Julien Britnic, Roxana Gatej, Sabin Garea and Adrian Dica, whose works of art are to be found dotted around Bucharest.

Oana Vasiliu

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