Bast Art

O noua editie a targului de arta, la Bastionul Croitorilor! Peste 20 de artisti expun si vand obiecte de arta decorativa.

New edition of the art fair organized by apARTe NGO, at the Tailors' Bastion in Cluj-Napoca. More than 20 artists present their decorative art creations.

Bast Art

O noua editie a targului de arta, la Bastionul Croitorilor! Peste 20 de artisti expun si vand obiecte de arta decorativa.

New edition of the art fair organized by apARTe NGO. More than 20 artists will present and sell their creations, in the field of decorative art. It is the seventh, Christimas edition of the artistic event. See you at the Tailors' Tower in Cluj-Napoca between December 18th and 20th 2009!
The name is a pun, lost in translation.

Be a Dacian or a Roman for one day!

TERRA DACICA AETERNA

Poţi să fii dac sau roman pentru o zi!


24 octombrie 2009
Expo Transilvania, ora 12-20


Asociaţia Terra Dacica Aeterna în parteneriat cu Primăria Cluj-Napoca, Expo Transilvania şi Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a Transilvaniei organizează în 24 octombrie 2009 un eveniment de recreare a atmosferei antice, dacice şi romane. Manifestarea constituie o premieră în cadrul evenimentelor cultural-istorice din judeţul Cluj.


La Expo Transilvania, Terra Dacica Aeterna organizează o serie de prezentări de echipament militar şi civil specific epocilor dacică şi romană, reconstituiri de momente din viaţa religioasă a celor două popoare antice şi simulări de luptă. Evenimentul este interactiv, organizându-se ateliere în care publicul va putea îmbrăca armurile şi costumele antice, va putea gusta din raţia zilnică de hrană a unui soldat roman, se va putea delecta cu jocuri specifice perioadei şi va avea ocazia să îşi demonstreze măiestria în cadrul atelierelor de tir cu arcul şi balista romană (scorpio), aruncare cu suliţa şi lancea (pilum). Doritorii, în special copii, vor putea participa la mini şedinţe de călărie.


Accesul publicului la eveniment este gratuit iar fondurile rezultate din participarea publicului la atelierele organizate şi din achiziţionarea suvenirurilor istorice puse spre vânzare vor fi folosite de Terra Dacica Aeterna pentru achiziţionarea de noi echipamente şi materiale.


Program:
12 - conferinţă de presă

13 - deschiderea oficială

13.30 - prezentarea membrilor Terra Dacica Aeterna

13.45 - consacrarea altarului Legiunii XIII Gemina, consacrarea armelor la daci

14.15 - demonstraţii de măiestrie călare (Riding Adventures)

14.45 - demonstraţii de lupte şi mânuirea armelor

15 - ateliere deschise publicului

17 - bătălie între daci şi romani

17.30 - ateliere deschise publicului

18.45 - spectacol cu flăcări (Firearts)

19.30 - foc de tabără

Targ de handmade la Sibiu

Bazart is the first handmade fair in Sibiu, held in the yard of the Erasmus book store. There will also be tea, joggling, and free workshops. More than 50 participants from all over Transylvania will show their work. See you in sunny Hermanstadt!
Read more about it here.

Little new things

Paul Gaugain invented a special type of monotypia, by putting printing ink on a hard surface, placing a sheet of paper on top, and then drawing on the back of the piece of paper. All pressed areas would thus touch the ink and stick on the paper. The result is interesting, though not very precise, as the paper tends to catch color also outside the intended areas. The final work thus requires interventions. I chose to "fix" some of the contours with acrylic paint.

Recomandare - expo Metamorfozele Evei

De vazut expozitia temporara de la Muzeul national de Istorie a Transilvaniei, str. C-tin Daicoviciu nr. 2, orar:
Marti, Miercuri, Vineri, Sambata, 10-16
Joi 12-18

Daca tot mergeti, vizitati si tezaurul, biletul e foooarte ieftin :)

New exhibition at the National History Museum of Transylvania, dedicated to female costumes through the ages, based on archaeological discoveries. The exhibition was initiated by the students of the MA group "Archaeology and Classical Studies" of the Babes-Bolyai University.

International exhibition SEEING YOURSELF. AUTO-VIZIUNE

International contemporary art exhibition "Seeing Yourself" opening in Sighisoara on March 25th. It will be open at Casa cu Cerb until June 2009. It is organized by the Art Academy in Cluj-Napoca, apARTe NGO, Restauro Messerschmit NGO, and the French Cultural Center, on the topic of self portraiture. As for the chosen medium of expression, photography is mainly envisaged by this exhibition.

Cluj bike

I wish I had a bike like that! I would then be able to ignore common sense and the special lanes as well :)

Urban fashion for garbage bins

In Cluj-Napoa even the garbage bins are fashionable! This is the autumn collection, that relies on colorful ties and combination of materials, to be worn even in the direst conditions. I even wonder why Milan is considered the center of the fashion industry!

Art Fair at Iulius Mall shopping center

NEW edition of the Art Fair, at Iulius Mall shopping center,  open 10-12 April 2009!
A group of young artists (and one's grandma) will exhibit and sell their paintings, graphic works and photos. You will also find engravings on hand-made paper, printed after original 18th and 19th century plates. But of course, the main attraction are the artists themselves, so don't be shy and ask all you want about how they create.
The following institutions and young artists, from Romania and abroad, will take part: MNIT (National History Museum of Transylvania), Ana-Maria Gruia, Edmond Kreibik, Radu Fizeşan, Alida Boari, Vera Dan, Bogdan Mihai Radu, Adrian Gorgan, Andrei Varga, Lojze Kalinsek, Rolana Ceckauskaite, and Edita Matulionyte.

Images from the fair at: http://aparte-cluj.blogspot.com/2009/04/rezumat-mall.html

Down here on the farm

Kitsch is an acknowledged art form in itself and here I gave in the temptation of using it. The photo project was inspired by a sad set of cheap plastic animals (with blue eyes!), that became the subjects of this shoot. Here are the masterpieces created "down here on the farm" (which is improvised in my parents' living room, naturally):

full deco, trees, fence and some grass

blue-eyed, four-legged

donkey got drunk

note the proportions. killer giant rabbit

slaughtered, yet still alive

a mare, naturally, considering the blue eyes and the haircut

Sculpture detail

This is a detail of my favorite sculpture from Budapest, near Keleti train station, where I had to waste a lot of time during the MA and PhD studies there. Even better than the classicist perfect modelling, I feel in admiration with the color and irregularities of bronze patina. Time is the best artist there is!

Temples and amfitheatre models - Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa and Sarmizegetusa Regia

Entrance to the Roman amphitheater in Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, the capital of the province Dacia. Detail of the gypsum model.

Detail of the gypsum model of the amphitheater.

The "round sanctuary" from Sarmizegetusa Regia, the capital of the Dacian kingdom. Detail of the model.

Column bases from another Dacian sanctuary. Detail of a model.

As all old-fashion, respectable museum institutions across Europe, the National History Museum of Transylvania owns and displays a series of models of archaeological sites. The most aesthetic ones (though, apparently, not very up-to-date) are those of the two Sarmizegetusas, i.e. the Roman amphitheater in the capital of the province of Dacia (Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa...) and the religious area of the ancient Dacian capital known as Sarmizegetusa Regia. I was delighted of these macro photographs of the details, especially under the morning sun.

Top silly painting titles (RO)

• Metamorfoză I, II, III....etc.
• Flori
• Apus de soare
• Nori, ceaţă şi o ploaie măruntă, aproape invizibilă, pe platourile de la Fjerlandsette
• Natură statică cu pepene galben. Armonie în verde şi portocaliu
• Natură statică cu pepene roşu. Armonie în negru şi roz
• Stare I, II, III....etc.
• Metamorfoză
• Vis

Larry as a dancer

As you can imagine, my friend Larry cares nothing for contemporary dance. Yet, here he is, putting on just such a show, with his partner - the toilet paper. The photo session was organized (ad hoc) in Bratislava, he is French, and I am Romanian, so there is one perfectly international art project.