On July 18, 2025, at Pittner School Cultural Center in Reșița, took place the opening of the exhibition “Three Works I Know in the World”, signed by the artist Dumitru Gorzo. The exhibition, curated by Maria Bîrsan, brings together works on paper made in various techniques – stencil, screenprint, linocut and bas-relief – covering several periods of the artist’s practice.
In the following period, the artist Dumitru Gorzo will work in an open workshop format, Continuous Studio VII, held at both the Pittner School and a former industrial hall on Primăverii Street, a space with symbolic significance for the city’s industrial history.
The title of the exhibition, “Three Works I Know in the World”, ironically paraphrases the anthem of the Socialist Republic of Romania and humorously counterbalances the density of the works presented – an abundance of anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, recurring in Gorzo’s visual imagination. Between doubles, repetitions, and phantasms, the characters – blown in red, black, and blue – communicate a personal bestiary, populated by gestures, shadows, and obsessive serialities. The exhibition functions as an installation in constant transformation,where new works created in Reșița will be gradually added, until the entire building becomes a living corpus of the artist.
Through this exhibition and the Continuous Studio VII program, Gorzo continues a deep artistic relationship with Reșița, a city where he has exhibited before and where he now returns not only to exhibit, but also to work, test and interact with the public. During his stay, the artist will also conduct workshops with children, building a living framework for dialogue and proximity to the artistic process. His works, built from harsh visual rhythms and recognizable figures, propose a strange intimacy in which the viewer is invited to recognize and reconfigure his own experiences. In the absence of an active museum, the Pittner School and its satellite spaces thus become the host of a living laboratory of contemporary art.
The Pittner School, a historic building transformed into a cultural center, has become a space that today brings together cultural activities, exhibitions and artistic interventions. This new episode of the collaboration between the artist and the city is part of the project “Some artists and a ‘closed’ closed’ museum”. When art engages a bored public”, coordinated by Banatul Montan Museum in partnership with Pittner School and co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration.
Dumitru Gorzo (b. 1975, Ieud, Maramureș) is one of the most active and prolific contemporary visual artists in Romania. A graduate of the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Painting Department, Gorzo is co-founder of the Rostopasca group and is known for his multidisciplinary practice, which combines painting, sculpture, installation, and intervention in public space. He has exhibited widely both in Romania and internationally – in New York, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Basel, Brussels, and Dublin – in galleries, museums, and alternative spaces such as SLAG Gallery (New York), RX&SLAG (Paris), MARe, and MNAC.
Visiting hours: Monday–Thursday: 10:00–16:00 // Friday: 10:00–13:30
Address: Pittner School Cultural Center, Str. Furnalelor 13, Reșița
Partners: Banatul Montan Reșița Museum, Reșița City Hall, Pittner School Cultural Center,
Reșița Urban Transport Society.
