The self-referential and self-reflexive exhibition project "Recurrences", a project to affirm a collective identity reflected by what is steady, deep and settled in the creation of the current teachers of the Faculty of Arts and Design from Timișoara, was opened on Friday, September 17, in the Gallery space of the Romanian Academy in Rome.
The "Recurrences" exhibition, curated by Maria Orosan-Telea, presents a selection of works by the teachers of the Faculty of Arts and Design from Timișoara and sheds light on aspects that continue, return, develop and are assimilated to a high level of coherence of their works. It is not about seriality in the strict sense of the term. Individual visions are presented that base their aesthetic concepts and their transposition into art objects, on a trans-seriality type dynamic. The curatorial selection follows elements of continuity that have returned in different forms in the creation of each artist, both in relation to himself and to each other. The permanent nuclei from which new and new compositional solutions emanate, the reinterpreted themes, contextualized differently depending on the period in which they were returned to, compete to create a refined and unified exhibition.
The project is carried out in the framework of the partnership of the Timişoara Faculty of Arts and Design with the "Italo-Romanian Cultural Horizons" bilingual Association and Magazine, which promotes cultural relations between the two countries, through an intense editorial and intercultural mediation activity. The magazine, in its XNUMXth year of publication, is registered in Italy and accessible at the two websites www.orizzonticulturali.it and www.orizonturiculturale.ro
At the opening at the Accademia di Romania in Rome, UVT was represented by a team coordinated by the Rector of the institution, prof. Dr. Marilen Gabriel Pirtea, with whom were also the partners of the event, His Excellency, Mr. George Gabriel Bologan, the Ambassador of Romania in Italy, the Director of ICR Rome, prof. Dr. Rudolf Dinu.
The rector of UVT, university professor Dr. Marilen Gabriel Pirtea: "Culture is not only done at home! I found good friends of UVT in Rome, far away from home, but still so close through everything that connects us. Art must be shared, and through this exhibition we respond to the interest of those who are in the capital of Italy, eager to get to know us in an artistic dimension."
The Faculty of Arts and Design is one of the eleven faculties of the West University of Timișoara, which, due to its vocational specificity, is one of the pillars of our multi-year program carried out under the generic "At UVT, Culture is Capital!".
*** In 2020, the Faculty of Arts and Design from Timișoara celebrated 30 years since its re-establishment. It is a young institution, compared to art academies in Romania, but which was founded on an important artistic and pedagogical heritage. Between 1933 and 1942, the School of Fine Arts operated in Timișoara, after it was moved from Cluj together with some of the teachers. In 1960, the Faculty of Fine Arts was established within the Pedagogical Institute, which ended its activity in 1979, during a period of vocational education restructuring, imposed by the communist regime. Since 1990, the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of the West has had uninterrupted activity and constant development, through the establishment of new specializations and the continuous improvement of the learning process. Its history coincides with the post-communist history of Romania, thus being paradigmatic for the way vocational higher education built its foundations in the uncertain years of transition, but also for the way it consolidated its status during the 2000s in relation to similar institutions of in Bucharest, Cluj and Iași and with international partners. The tradition of Timișoara art also represented an important aspect in defining the specifics of the faculty. The first professors of the departments established in 1990 were the neo-avant-garde artists from Timișoara, including those who in the 70s and 80s practiced experimental pedagogical methods at the Art High School in Timișoara.
Thanks:
Academy of Romania
Romanian-Italian Cultural Horizons magazine by Afrodita Cionchin
Curator Maria Orosan Telea
To the team coordinating and implementing this visual adventure.
Exhibiting artists:
Acea Stelian, Adorian Vică, Adorjani Réka, Andoni Dacian, Andreescu Diana, Apostu Daniel, Barzu Eugen, Bunii Alexandru, Catona Daniela, Constantin Daniela, Daju Cristina, Duduleanu Laura, Feti Claudia, Gaspar Matei, Gherman Ion, Gingiu Victor, Grati Gloria . Părăușanu Andrei, Penteliuc Dieter, Petcu Filip, Pleșa Andreea, Popa Liliana, Răța Bogdan Ioan, Riemschneider Eugenia, Rotaru Remus, Șerban Anamaria, Sida Cristian, Ștefănescu Valentina, Suciu Sandra, Szucs Eniko, Toma Claudiu, Trion Silvia, Vișovan Dan, Zegrean Sergiu, Zgondoiu Mihai
Univ. Prof. Dr. Camil Mihăescu
