ROMULUS LADEA catalogue launch

The National Art Museum of Romania invites you on Sunday, February 4, at 4:00 pm to the launch event of the catalogue of the sculpture exhibition "Romulus Ladea" open from October 4, 2023 to February 4, 2024. The special guests of the event are Mrs Adriana Botez Crainic, art historian and critic, Mr Virgil Scripcariu, sculptor and Mr Radu Zaciu, moderator Judit Balint, curator of the exhibition. Free admission.

The event marks the closing of the exhibition and the publication of the bilingual catalogue. The volume presents the 34 works on display, photographs of the public monuments and photographs from the exhibition. The catalogue also includes, for the first time, a QR code allowing access to the virtual tour of the exhibition.

The exhibition dedicated to the artist Romulus Ladea, an event that brought to the Bucharest public, after more than 50 years, the most important sculptures of the artist in the patrimony of the museum, of seven other museums in the country, as well as in two private collections, is part of a broader approach of the museum to bring to the forefront important Romanian sculptors.

The three special guests have made outstanding contributions in the field of art and art history: Ms. Adriana Botez-Crainic is an art historian and critic, author of four volumes of History of Universal Art, a volume of History of Modern and Contemporary Romanian Art, a treatise on Theory of Sculpture entitled The Art of Form, the bibliophile books Montparnasse Bienvenüe and Renaissance , Brâncuși and the monographs Ion Popescu-Negreni, Valbudea and Romulus Ladea (2017).

Mr Virgil Scripcariu is a sculptor, winner of the Sculpture Prize of the Union of Artists 2023, author of outstanding sculptures and public monuments, among which the most recent is the Lovinescu-Ierunca monument, unveiled in Bucharest in December 2023, and co-founder of the Museum-Atelier School of Piscu.

Mr Radu Zaciu has a degree in mathematics and is a passionate amateur photographer with over 2 million views on his Flickr account. He was generous enough to donate to the museum the sculpture "Self-portrait" signed by Romulus Ladea, for which we are grateful.

Ground floor of the National Gallery, Calea Victoriei 49-53.

Access to the event is free.