Galeria Romană is presenting an exceptional event, the exhibition: “Dragoș Morărescu, Centenary”.
Works covering a large part of his creative period (1947 – 1997) and addressing multiple recurring themes throughout the artist’s activity will be exhibited.
At the exhibition’s opening, Cătălin Davidescu, historian and art critic, and Vladimir Bulat, historian and art critic, will speak.
A catalog of the exhibited works also accompanies the exhibition.
Dragoș Morărescu was born on October 6, 1923, in Bucharest. Sculptor, graphic artist, architect, painter, and poet, he worked in multiple techniques: drawing, gouache, tempera, pastel, pointe-séche, linocut, lithography, own techniques: glass painting, easel painting, tempera mural painting and fresco, hammered and chiseled sheet metal sculpture.
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1944-1947), the Higher School of Church Painting (1947), and the Faculty of Architecture in Bucharest (1944-1949). He also completed Paleo-Christian, Byzantine, and Romanian art history studies with Prof. I.D. Ștefănescu at the Faculty of Letters.
In 1943, he debuted at the Official Salon of Decorative Arts at the Romanian Athenaeum, obtaining the first mention.
“Dragoș Morărescu relives with such pathos everything related to his visual culture, puts so much tenacity in the exercise of its processing, that he ends up acquiring a remarkable stylistic autonomy…”
(Andrei Pleșu – Literary Romania, 1973)
“Dragoș Morărescu, encyclopedist spirit who is such a free man that he allows himself to remake art history with every work.” (Vladimir Bulat)
“In a dynamic cultural landscape, such as the current Romanian one, I understand how high the stakes are in rereading from a contemporary perspective an artist born a century ago, with a prolific and so diverse body of work (painter, graphic artist, muralist, engraver, sculptor, architect, poet) and whose physical existence has ended for almost two decades.” (Cătălin Davidescu, 2023)
The exhibition is open from 6 to 28 October 2023, Monday to Friday from 10:00 – 18:00 and Saturday between 10:00 and 15:00. The entrance is free.
Address: Galeria Romană, Bd. Lascăr Catargiu, no. 1, sector 1, Bucharest.
