Retrospective exhibition of painting by Tudor Zbârnea
The National Museum of Art of Romania invites you this Saturday, June 18, 2022, at 18:00, to the opening of the retrospective exhibition of paintings singed by the artist Tudor Zbârnea.
The extensive exhibition of Tudor Zbârnea, staged for the first time at MNAR, includes a selection of 59 paintings, with various themes, made in over 30 years of creation. Some of these works have been awarded in various national and international competitions.
The curator of the exhibition is the art critic Maria Bilașevschi and the commissioner appointed by MNAR is Carmen Cernat.
Tudor Zbârnea (born December 29, 1955, Nisporeni, Republic of Moldova) is one of the most original contemporary visual artists, with a singular discourse based on expressions of form and color that contain adherence to the artistic means decanted from the second half of the twentieth century until the moment. His discourse is based on the expressiveness of the pictorial matter that acquires the force of the broad gesture, recalling the best neo-expressionist examples, but without turning abstract, the representation of the human body always remains present, detectable, even in the most ardent turmoil of color.
He graduated the Republican School of Fine Arts „I. E. Repin ”, Chisinau and the“ George Enescu” National University of Arts, Iași, Romania, Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department. He has participated in over 300 representative exhibitions in the country and abroad, with over 35 personal exhibitions. The artist's works are in numerous and prestigious public and private collections. He is the director of the National Museum of Art of Moldova and the initiator of the International Painting Bienniale, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.
He has won numerous awards and distinctions, among which we mention: in 2021 the Anniversary Medal "Centenary of the Great Union" awarded by the President of Romania; 2017 “Emeritus for Polish Culture” Badge of Honor, awarded by the Polish Ministry of Culture and Heritage; 2016 Gold Medal "French Merit and Devotion", Paris; “Vicolo Poldo” Trophy, 35th edition, Como, Italy; 1997 Honorary Diploma from the European Academy of Arts, Brussels, etc.
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The National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) has since 2016 a privileged relationship with the National Museum of Art of Moldova (MNAM), between the two museums being concluded a collaboration agreement that led to the organization in 2017 of the exhibition "Stefan Luchian between tradition and modernity ”with works from the MNAR patrimony at MNAM in Chisinau and the exhibition“ Mihail Grecu - Between metaphor and objective reality ”at MNAR in 2018.
"The cultural relations between the Republic of Moldova and Romania have a new dimension through this exhibition, which presents in the most representative art museum in our country a synthesis of the work of one of the most important painters of today in the Republic of Moldova and also from Romania. Tudor Zbârnea is not only a painter of great artistic strength, he is also the director of the most important art museum across Prut, which in its cultural programs has privileged the presentation of contemporary art in Romania through its best examples "says Călin Stegerean, general director at the MNAR.
"Tudor Zbârnea links the past to the present, modeling from myth, from folklore, from the ontological dowry of humanity, man, subject and object of a journey to the center of being, to the very question in the Psalms:" Lord, what is man to take, Do you know him? ” His characters start from the light, rooted in an archetypal prototype that marks over three decades of evolution, syntheses and decantations, years in which the asceticism of the expression has accumulated sadness, drama, humility, anxiety and reconciliation of what is generically called human destiny. ”Shows the curator Maria Bilașevschi in the presentation text of the exhibition.
The exhibition can be visited on the ground floor of the National Gallery of the National Museum of Art of Romania until September 4, 2022.
