The third floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art hosts the retrospective exhibition dedicated to the artist Ecaterina Vrana (1969 – 2019), one of Romania’s most important contemporary artists.
The retrospective exhibition INDIGO (ABOUT ECATERINA VRANA), which opened with the inauguration of the new exhibition season in May of this year, is curated by Simona Vilău.
The exhibition, conceived on the principle of protective space, presents a comprehensive and impressive selection of works from private and museum collections, complemented by personal materials from the artist’s archive.
“A person’s memory is composed of a vast puzzle of sensations, stories, voices, photographs, projections, imaginary additions, and contradictions. Ecaterina Vrana (1969-2019) lived for fifty years. She had a carousel-type life full of art, dilemmas, fascination, faith, love, challenges, illness, loss, and literature.
(De)writing a story in an instant, without rethinking and changing plans, like a copy on indigo, was her strategy to survive and create, to add content to a day, a painting, and all together, life whole. Through her painting, Ecaterina Vrana does two important things: she breaks with the school and the visual systems imposed by the art courses she attended and lays the foundations of an independent, autonomous world, supported by the meta-writing that defines both her creation as well as artistic production.” Simona Vilău
Ecaterina VRANA (1969–2019) was born in Constanta and studied painting at the Academy of Arts in Bucharest. Recent exhibitions include Ecaterina Vrana: A Woman Without Secrets, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania (2017, solo); The Scythe was a Chick, Museum of Art, Constanța, Romania (2015); Funeraria, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2011); Bladly Happy: Pain, Pleasure, and Panic in Recent Romanian Art, The Performance Art Institute, San Francisco (2011) and The Bear’s Dance, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2010). Vrana’s works have been exhibited in public and private collections in Romania, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and the US.
The exhibition can be visited on the 3rd floor of the museum until October 2023.
Production team: Călina Bârzu (archive digitization of drawings); Bogdan Ceaușescu, Serioja Bocsok (graphic design); Raluca Ioana Flangea (English translations); Adriana Oprea (documentary section); Irina Radu (head of Art Collections section), Claudia Paraschiv, Alina Constantin, Dana Cocină, Iulia Popovici; Mirel Dumitrașcu (logistics service head), Ovidiu Voicu, Mirel Gheorghe (transport and frames); Dan Iordache (video); George Tănase & team (furniture), Andrei Suhan & Cătălin Velea (Fronier Workshop)
Source: mnac.ro
