Going out: Exhibitions to see in Bucharest and in the country this spring
The European Capital of Culture program in Timişoara is bringing top events to the city, while Bucharest is adding to its offer a new art fair. We outline below some of the exhibitions currently open.
Simona Fodor · Journalist
· Updated · 7 min read
The European Capital of Culture program in Timişoara is bringing top events to the city, while Bucharest is adding to its offer a new art fair. We outline below some of the exhibitions currently open.
In Bucharest, M.H. Maxy – From Avant-garde to Socialism is open at the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) until April 30th. The exhibition gathers 95 paintings as well as other works of the artist in two separate sections, following his biography. A leading figure of the local avant-garde movement during the inter-war period, Maxy was also the director that oversaw the establishment and running of the most important art museum in the country during the Communist period (the current MNAR). His work spanned two distinct periods: the one of royal Romania, between 1923, when he returned from his studies in Berlin and until 1947, and the one following the arrival of the Communist regime that year and until his death in 1971.
The Museum of Recent Art (MARe), which will host later this year an exhibition dedicated to Picasso, runs until May 8th See What. Photography in Romania after 2000, a retrospective of Romanian photography of the past 20 years, covering the new phenomena and the paradigm shifts. The artists included in the exhibition are Lucian Bran, Michele Bressan, Valeriu Cătălineanu, Ioana Cîrlig, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Emőke Kerekes, Anton Roland Laub, Virginia Lupu, Andrei Mateescu, Patricia Morosan, Andrei Nacu, and Mihai Șovăială.
The 11th edition of Art Safari, running until May 14th, includes four main exhibitions focusing on both local and international artists. One covers the work of Romanian painter Ion Theodorescu-Sion, who, thematically, turned his attention to Romanian village life and to traditional motives. Masters of Spanish Painting focuses on the career of the Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863 - 1923). His work is exhibited alongside that of artists such as Mariano Fortuny, Ignacio Zuloaga, Raimundo de Madrazo, Francisco Miralles, and many more. At the same time, The Memory Palace focuses on the French art scene and highlights a selection of eight artists and two duos of the French art scene (from different generations and cultural backgrounds), who participated in the Marcel Duchamp Prize in the past fifteen years. They are Farah Atassi, Michel Blazy, Katinka Bock, Mircea Cantor, Clément Cogitore, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Enrique Ramírez, Thu-Van Tran, and Tatiana Trouvé. Young Blood 2.0. What's New in Art? covers the up-and-coming generation of artists.
