In a short text published in artforum Magazine at the beginning of July, Kathrin Rhomberg, the curator of the sixth Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, pointed out that the socio-political changes during the past ten years are relevant to the understanding of the present artistic context: “One of the dominant tendencies in the art world over the past ten years has been a kind of “new historicism”: a retrospective view of the twentieth century, of modernism for example.
Film Menu – cinema culture magazine, initiated and supported by the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest (edited by students of the Film Department), Arte & Meserii - publication at the very first issue, published by the Cultural Association Paspartu or the Postbox Magazine of the Oberliht Association are the latest editorial releases dedicated to the present cultural life, assisted, naturally, by online platforms or even online versions.
The Art Museum Timişoara is preparing for all the art lovers an event exhibition, in fact a foray into Rembrandt’s world of art through 101 engravings, having as subject the self-portrait, the portrait, the biblical scenes and the nude. The engravings presented within the exhibition „Rembrandt The Mystic Seen in His Engraving” belong to the Romanian Academy’s Library and are part of the 400 engravings that Rembrandt has created between 1628-1665.
A definition of the portrait in the visual arts says: a portrait is an artistic representation – painting, photography or sculpture, of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the personality, and even the mood of the person.
The exhibition opened at the National Museum of Contemporary Art during May - June 2010 aims to present a series of major figures on the international object design scene today, creators that see Paris as a cultural melting pot.
The persons crossing Piaţa Muzeului in Cluj these days with an interest to see the Fortuna Galleries, can see a photo exhibition – Maskolectiv – initiated by a group of Cluj artists, photographers (Dorel Găină, Mira Marincaş, Crina Prida) and painters (Andor Kömives), who, from about 3 years, are “acting” together drawn by a communion of ideas and visions, by a symbolic and metaphoric way of thinking, crossing the power of the words in order to become an artistic image.
PPP - public-private partnership - is a relatively new phrase in the European institutional art space. A “magic acronym”, as it was defined by the Berliner Kunst Palast Foundation, PPP involves bridging the interests of the public and private sectors, with view to sponsoring the cultural sphere, also to equally share responsibilities (and not only benefits).
Till 20 years ago within the field of the contemporary art there has been an art of the Western and one of the Eastern Europe, with both a negative impact upon the art of the Central and South East Europe regarding its visibility and means of expression according to the artists’ vision and a positive impact concerning the development of a specific art in this part of the world capable to “speculate” certain subjects and moments...
We frequently encounter while walking to the city those interesting and cool characters, tending to become fashion icons, admired or disapproved, having the courage to wear what they find best for themselves despite de people’s conservative views or the society’s fashion rules. Lucian Broscăţean is such a fashion designer and art creator very found of these fashion icons, using this image in most of his creations.
The Casa Matei Gallery of the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca prepares for the art fans a new unusual artistic exhibition with the opening on the 20th of April 2010, at 6 pm, of the first solo exhibition belonging to the young sculptor Vlad Berte, 2nd year MA student of the institution mentioned above.
