The exhibition titled "Li-ber-ta-te! Svo-bo-da! Free-dom!" that raises to attention Romania and Bulgaria's recent historical past, against the backdrop of the approaching 35th anniversary of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, will open on September 2 in Sofia, a release informs.
The concept exhibition presents for the first time in Sofia about 20 established or young Romanian artists representative for various stages of contemporary Romanian art. The featured group of artists includes Sabin Balasa, Felix Aftene, Andrei Chintila, Irina Dragomir, Ondine Slimovschi, Georges Mazilu, Mihai Muresan and Robert Lorincz.
The exhibition is a visual approach to Romania's recent past, proposing artistic representations that aptly express the way in which the acknowledgement of history, the issue of freedom and the understanding of personal experiences in a world of transition are focal points for the Romanian artistic milieu. With expectations that the Bulgarian public will find familiar visual motifs embedded in a common spectrum, the exhibition is an invitation to intercultural dialogue aimed at bringing the two cultural spaces closer together, the release states.
According to the organizers, the idea of freedom is addressed from multiple perspectives, raising fundamental questions that probe the meaning of freedom 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Bloc. The concept of boundless manifestation is approached by the selected artists from various angles, with focus on various themes such as intimacy, the dream world, revolt, anguish, lyricism or solitude.
Many of the exhibited works take to metaphor and symbols as a means of creative interpretation, but sometimes, as in the case of George Anghelescu, the references to real historical events or characters anchor the viewer in the dramas of the more recent or distant past.
On the other hand, freedom understood as an inner experience that defies all constraints, or that perceived as a form of escapism in a world of imagination and dreams is reflected in the works signed by Felix Aftene, Irina Dragomir, Georges Mazilu and Ondine Slimovschi. The theme of privacy as a space of inviolable yet fragile freedom can be found at Sabin Balasa, Andrei Chintila and Marcel Guguianu, whereas the works of Petre Velicu, Heidi Tradnik, Octavian Ioan Penda, Mihai Muresan and Robert Lorincz delve into aspects such as anguish, suffering, alienation and solitude, raising the issue of the limits of individual freedom, but also of the difficulty of finding meaning in a world in full transformation.
The exhibition can be visited at the Sofia Press Gallery between September 2 - 29.
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