Art Movements Foundation, Scemtovici & Benowitz Gallery, and ALERT Studio opened on Wednesday, October 25, the exhibition “CONTEMPORARY DRAWING IN ROMANIA” – the first edition, curated by Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu.
The exhibition is an invitation to analysis, to an incomplete incursion into the universe of Romanian graphic creation, with the practices of contemporary drawing and emerging trends.
The exhibition includes the works selected by an independent jury, knowledgeable about the art scene in Romania: Aurelia Mocanu, Ion Grigorescu, Petru Lucaci, Radu Pandele, the collector Alexandru Rus and Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, who is also the curator of the exhibition. The selection was made from a number of 587 drawings, the creation of 347 Romanian artists who responded to the call for the first edition of the art project initiated with the intention of taking place annually, starting in 2023.
The works were chosen so that, apart from artistic excellence, a greater diversity of techniques and trends present in contemporary creation is included. It is interesting to observe the cultural and aesthetic polarity and a certain stylistic unity common to some cultural centers in Romania: Cluj, Timișoara, Iași, and Bucharest.
“CONTEMPORARY DRAWING IN ROMANIA” brings together the artists: Ioana Badea, Olimpiu Bandalac, Beaver, Alina Bobeică, Maria Bordeanu, Cătălin Burcea, Dragoș Burlacu, Gabriel Caloian, Andreea Carată, Miruna Condrea, Eleonora Cupcencu, Mircea Cuza, Emöke Fábián, Norbert Filep, Alina Gherasim, Adrian Ghiman. Stela Lie, Irina Marinescu, Alina Marinescu, Marta Mattioli, Alex Maxim, Dávid-Lehel Miholcsa, Alex Mirutziu, Ada Muntean, Marilena Murariu, Andrea Nagy, Aurelia Neculai, Diana Oniciuc, Cristina Oprișenescu, Andrei Palade, Ana-Maria Panaitescu, Ioana -Mihaela Panaitescu, Corina-Ioana Păcurar, Bogdan Pelmus, Marian Petre, Norica-Ioana Popescu, Eugen Raportoru, Marcela Rădulescu, Claudia Riza, Cătălin Rulea, Adrian Sandu, Oana Sas, Ana-Ilina Schileru, Diana Serghiuță, Irina Spînu, Marius Tănăsescu, Aris Tureac, Camelia Tutulan, Daniela Vîrlan.
The competition Art Movements Foundation Award for Contemporary Drawing, 2023 winners are First Prize – Diana Serghiuță; Second Prize – Ada Muntean; Third Prize – Adrian Ghiman and Collector’s Prize – Alex Mirutziu.
Art Machine, the automatic vending machine initiated by the artistic group Pastila Roz, is a special guest in this exhibition and will make available to the contemporary art aficionado a series of original graphic works, in postcard format, from the artists exhibiting, including the winners of the edition. Thus, in exchange for the sum of 50 lei, anyone can purchase a unique work of art made by an artist using his own technique and bearing his personal stamp
The exhibition for sale can be visited at Scemtovici & Benowitz gallery until November 17, 2023, on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays between 2-7 PM.
