My latest linocut project is a calendar for 2009 inspired by urban sites from Cluj-Napoca. Some of the representative monuments are included, both old and new (the building of the town hall is among the new, as I intent to have them as partners in this project). The new touch is in having the day numbers in linocut as well, with weekend days and holidays placed higher and in different colors, as to become more visible.
These are the selected linocuts:
January - the Matthias House (the building where king Mathias was born, currently the Art Academy)
February - St. Michael's Gothic church, in the main square (Unirii)
March - the Town Hall
April - Tailors' Bastion, in fact one of the corner towers of the second medieval fortified precinct, rebuilt in the 17th century after an explosion caused by lightning (gun powder was kept inside)
May - rooftops and the tower of St. Michael's (neo- Gothic)
June - the house of the Silversmith (window frames preserve depictions of a chalice and one part of the building housed until recently a pub called, appropriately, At the Golden Chalice)
July - the Hintz House, one of the oldest pharmacies in town, currently the History of Pharmacy Colection
August - King Matthias Corvinus
September - the Franciscan church (in the Middle Ages a Dominican friary)
October - the Carolina Obelisk - monument placed by rich citizens in honor of the visit in town of Empress Carolina Augusta or Austro-Hungary
November - the Orthodox Cathedral
December - the Banffy Palace, currently the Art Museum
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