EXHIBITION "M.H. MAXY - FROM AVANT-GARDE TO  SOCIALISM" - OPENING WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2022, AT  6:00 PM.

The National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) announces the opening of the exhibition "M.H. Maxy - From Avant-Garde to Socialism" which will take place on Wednesday, December 28, 2022, at 6:00 PM in the temporary exhibition space on the ground floor of the National Gallery.

The exhibition will be opened by Mr. Silviu Vexler, the President of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania.

Max Herman Maxy was one of the exceptional figures of 20th-century art in Romania. His life as an artist unfolded in two distinct and equally long periods: in monarchical Romania from 1923, the year of his return from studies in Berlin, until 1947, and the period that followed with the establishment of the communist regime in that year until his death in 1971. In both periods, he was a prominent figure, either as one of the leaders of the avant- garde art movement during the interwar period or as the director who oversaw the establishment and operation of Romania's most important art museum during the communist era (the current MNAR).

This exhibition presents the artist's work in these two distinct sections, following the chronological thread of his biography, and brings together 95 paintings, 50 graphic works and scenography projects, applied art objects, and a selection from avant-garde magazines such as Integral, Contimporanul, unu, and Punct.

Selections from significant documentary films from the 1940s and 1950s will also be projected, capturing the atmosphere of the respective eras.

The exhibition was realised in collaboration with: the National Film Archive, the Association of Friends of the National Museum of Art of Romania, the Library of the Romanian Academy, the "Lucian Blaga" Central University Library Cluj-Napoca, the Metropolitan Library Bucharest, the Arad Museum Complex, the National Museum Complex "Moldova" Iași, the National Council of Cinematography, the "Gavrilă Simion" Eco-Museum Research Institute Tulcea, the Brăila Museum "Carol I," the Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, the Craiova Art Museum, the Mureș County Museum, the "Ion Ionescu Quintus" Prahova County Museum of Art, the Bucharest City Museum, the Țării Crișurilor Museum, Oradea. Additionally, works from the collections of Damian Florea, Vladimir Pană, and Ovidiu Șandor are exhibited.

Curated by Călin Stegerean, the general director of MNAR.

Exhibition commissioner: Patricia Bădulescu.

The exhibition will be open until April 30, 2023, and will include educational activities and conferences held by academician Ion Pop, Dr. Alexandra Chiriac, and Călin Stegerean.