Muzeul Național de Artă al României anunță deschiderea unei noi expoziții permanente, începând cu data de 22 noiembrie 2024: Galeria de Artă Orientală
Situată la etajul al treilea al sediului central din Calea Victoriei, alături de Galeria de Artă Decorativă Europeană, Galeria de Artă Orientală include aproape 600 de obiecte de artă provenite din Azerbaidjan, Bulgaria, China, Daghestan, Egipt, Grecia, India, Iran, Japonia, Siria, Turcia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, selectate din cel mai important și mai valoros patrimoniu de artă orientală și extrem orientală din țară, administrat de Muzeul Național de Artă al României.
Realizarea acestei noi expoziții permanente, unică în România, este rodul unui efort comunitar în care au fost implicați pe de o parte muzeografii, conservatorii, restauratorii, tehnicienii și personalul de conducere din cadrul muzeului, pe de altă parte o serie de parteneri, sponsori și donatori care s-au alăturat în timp proiectului: Asociația „Prietenii MNAR”, JTI, BRD Groupe Societe Generale, Camelia Șucu, Raiffeisen BANK, Coca-Cola România, Romcar, Banca Comercială Română, Tomini Trading, TNT Romania, Solmar Trading Group, Soft Medica, Romtelecom, Unilever, Veronica Savanciuc, ITH Management Office, CitiBank Romania, Leadership Development Romania, Banca Națională a României, Topo Capital Corporation, Domeniile Sâmburești, AQUA Carpatica.
Exhibition "Tadeusz Kantor – Always and Everywhere an Artist"
As part of the Poland-Romania Cultural Season 2024-2025,
the National Museum of Art of Romania (NMAR), in partnership with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute from Warsaw, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Cricoteka (Center for the Documentation of Tadeusz Kantor’s Art), and the Polish Institute in Bucharest, presents the exhibition:
"Tadeusz Kantor – Always and Everywhere an Artist"
Curated by Dr. Maria Anna Potocka, Director of MOCAK
The exhibition will be open from 20 October 2024 to 9 March 2025.
The opening event will take place on Sunday, October 20, 2024, at 16:00, on the ground floor of the National Gallery of NMAR, Calea Victoriei no. 49-53, Bucharest.
Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was one of the most important Polish artists, with a significant contribution to the revolutionizing of both Polish and global theater, as well as a remarkable avant-garde activity in the field of visual arts.
For the first time in Romania, this exhibition will highlight the versatility and complexity of this artist by showcasing the main directions he pursued as director, set designer, actor in his own plays, creator of happenings, painter and theorist.
The exhibition will feature 25 paintings, assemblages, sculptures and sculptural set designs for theater plays from the MOCAK collection along with 57 photographs taken between 1980-1990 and documenting his plays, including photographic portraits, offering an extensive perspective on this fascinating creator.
Throughout the exhibition, a rich program of related events will be presented, co-organized by NMAR and the Tadeusz Kantor Art Documentation Center – Cricoteka. On 21-25 October 2024 workshops entitled “Costume in Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatrical Toolkit” will be held, led by Bogdan Renczyński, an actor at Cricot 2 Theater. In February 2025 the exhibition halls will host the art installation “Personal Space” featuring projected slides of Kantor’s theatrical costumes. “Personal Space” will become a venue for meetings and workshops conducted over several days by Justyna Droń, a theater educator and creator of Cricoteka educational program. Participants will have the opportunity to interact individually with Tadeusz Kantor’s costumes, dye fabrics, create collages, apply symbols and print drawings.
Additionally, screenings of Kantor’s iconic plays will be organized, from ”The Dead Class” (1976) to ”Today is My Birthday” (1991). The screenings will take place at NMAR on 25 October 2024, 22 November 2024, 13 December 2024, 17 January 2025 and 21 February 2025.
The exhibition is also part of the National Theater Festival taking place in Bucharest at various venues on 18-28 October 2024. Partner: UNITER (https://fnt.ro/2024/).
Reopening of The European Decorative Art Gallery, 15th of January 2024
With an area of over 400 square meters, the European Decorative Art Gallery, composed of six rooms, illustrates four centuries of history of taste and refinement, innovations, manufactures and European craftsmen from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Russia from the 16th-19th centuries and completes the museum's permanent exhibition, alongside the European Art Gallery and the National Gallery.
Included in the exhibition is a wonderful marriage box made in Dresden in 1586, ceramics from the famous faience factories of Delft (Netherlands), Manises (Spain), Montelupo Fiorentino and Savona (Italy), Rouen, Moustiers and Sèvres (France), Meissen (Germany), Provençal furniture and French tapestries, as well as special silver pieces alongside the famous Bohemian crystal glasses. The craftsmanship of Russian craftsmen can be admired in the delicate cloisonné silver pieces, the niello silver glasses or the Punch Bowl made by the famous Fabergé workshop. Also, a precious collection of watches illustrates the excellence of jewelers and watchmakers from the most important workshops in Europe.
The presence of these objects in Romania attests to the fact that our country has always been in a European circuit of exchanges of cultural values.
Europe was not only the space for the manifestation of secular practices in the artistic field, but also a place where the creative input from other continents merged into defining expressions of the exceptionality of the human spirit. These varied cultural influences have, over time, contributed to the definition of a European identity that is also reflected in the gallery display.
The opening of the European Decorative Art Gallery is due to a passionate and involved team from the National Art Museum of Romania, made up of museographers, conservators, restorers and technicians, but also to an important contribution of sponsors and partners without whom this far-reaching project would not be possible. would have been possible: Association "Friends of MNAR", Raiffeisen BANK, Camelia Șucu, Coca-Cola Romania, Romcar, Banca Comercială Română, Tomini Trading, TNT Romania, Solmar Trading Group, Soft Medica, Romtelecom, Unilever, Veronica Savanciuc, ITH Management Office, CitiBank Romania, Leadership Development Romania, Banca Națională a României, Topo Capital Corporation.
The spaces that house this gallery have gone through an extensive redevelopment process, being heavily affected by the earthquake in 1986 and the fire in 1989. The opening required the creation of showcases in accordance with the latest standards in the field, ensuring both security and high standard display.
The European Decorative Art Gallery benefits, for the first time, from a digital component, the MyMNAR application, to be used during the visit in the gallery to complement the exhibition course in an interactive way.
Access to the European Decorative Art Gallery is through entrance A2, floor 3, Calea Victoriei 49-53, Bucharest, Wednesday - Friday, 10:00 - 18:00 and Saturday- Sunday, 11:00 - 19:00.
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The National Museum of Art of Romania is the country’s prime holder of Romanian, European and Oriental art. Located in the former Royal Palace in Bucharest, it includes the National Gallery (Romanian medieval and modern art) and the European Art Gallery. Apart from numerous temporary exhibitions, visitors can also join guided tours of the former Throne Hall and other spaces of historical relevance.
The Art Collections Museum, the K.H. Zambaccian Museum and the Theodor Pallady Museum are equally part of the National Museum of Art of Romania.
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The Gallery of Oriental Art
The Gallery of Oriental Art brings together objects of great artistic and cultural value from Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Dagestan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, India, China and Japan, selected from the most important and valuable heritage of Oriental and Far Eastern art in the country.
The Stories of the Cross: Miniature Sculpture of Byzantine Tradition
Curator: Lucreția Pătrășcanu
K.H. Zambaccian Museum
Art collector and critic Krikor H. Zambaccian (1889-1962) put together one of the richest and most valuable private collections in Romania. In the 1940s Zambaccian had the house purpose built so as to enable him to display the paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings and furniture he had acquired over more than half a century. Both the collection and the house were donated by him to the Romanian State in 1947.
In celebration of his deed, Zambaccian was made a member of the Romanian Academy.
The collector’s portfolio of Romanian artists offers a brief but dense overview of modern Romanian art, covering representative paintings by founding figures like Theodor Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, Ioan Andreescu, classical modernists like Ștefan Luchian, Nicolae Tonitza, Theodor Pallady and Gheorghe Petrașcu, and post-war figurative painters like Corneliu Baba, Alexandru Phoebus and Horia Damian. Sculptures by Brâncuși, Milița Petrașcu, Oscar Han and Cornel Medrea reflect Zambaccian’s preference for a more traditional vein of modernism. To create a context for Romanian art and enhance his prestige, Zambaccian also acquired works by Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard, Utrillo, and Marquet, which lend his collection a profile unmatched in Romania.
