Living statues festival returns to Bucharest this spring

The International Festival of Living Statues will take place this year between May 22 and May 28, in several locations in Bucharest. The Masca Theater, which organizes the event, will deliver performances in the Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Crângaşi and Herăstrău parks of Bucharest but also at the Cesianu House, on Calea Victoriei. The latter will host a Night of the Living Statues. For this year’s edition of the event, the organizers plan to invite more artists from abroad, and produce porcelain statues. “We will produce porcelain statues, which, as a working method, is extremely, extremely complicated. We will probably invite 40 or 50 statues from abroad, more than last year,” Mihai Mălaimare, the director of the Masca Theater, told Agerpres. The 2018 festival will focus on the topic of the “Forgotten jobs of Paris.” The first edition of the festival was organized in 2011. At last year’s edition, the public could admire statues recreating figures such as Steve Jobs, Alfred Nobel, Alber Einstein, Thomas Edison, and Mozart. editor@romania-insider.com