Between January 16 and February 7, 2023, the Galeria Romană presents Silvia RADU’s and Vasile GORDUZ’s works in a new exhibition from the “Families of artists” cycle.

The opening will occur on Monday, January 16, at 7 p.m., with the participation of the artist Silvia RADU, and Sever Voinescu, editor-in-chief of Dilema Veche, will speak at the opening.

“An interpreter of the dogma, Saint John Damascene, said about angels that they do not need to speak, to hear each other, because they understand each other without going through this customs of the word. The angels with whom Silvia Radu surrounds us have their meaning beyond agreed explanations or paraphrases. Rather, we are brought here under the regime of another, otherwise solidary need: being together with the artist in a spiritual urgency. […]

We must follow her approach, with an undisputed empathy focusing on her inner sky.” (Dan Haulică, Honorary President of the International Association of Art Critics).

Text taken from the catalog “Silvia Radu, sculpture, painting, drawing” – ed. Palatele Brâncovenești Cultural Center, 2015.

“Vasile Gorduz comes from a clean world, which no longer exists even where he came from, from Trifești. All the unique aura of a perfect world where everything happened with a purpose, joys, and sorrows remained in his soul. Everything driven by the laws started from the church’s altar, where an all-knowing priest of the teaching left by God to people served.

Mitea Nichita’s father put him in the cart with two ember-eating horses, and they arrived, passing through the fire of the bombings, in Bucharest in 1944. To leave “heaven” for a continuous war was life for Vasile Gorduz.

What is lovely, this “heaven” that was only his fed him ceaselessly. Our Vasile kept it tightly in his tiny fists as a child left alone in a strange place and only let it go now and then to feed his hurried chimeras or those with chicks, or his usual birds, tired of flight, resting with their beak in the sand. The lamb-bearer prays with his prayer, and transhumance obsesses him; Victoria, who meant our non-existence, throws herself into Traian’s arms; Eminescu unties his sandals, like Moses, to step on the land of the Mother of God. Vasile Gorduz has a significant advantage: he has a great name, Vasile, and no one can take it from him.

He passed through life pure; nothing altered his freshness of thought, the beauty of his deed, or his unique love for this country, where he came to unite his particular song with other great patriots. We are all happy if we can see where that comes from. That could fill us with happiness.” (Silvia Radu, speech at the inauguration of Mircea Eliade’s statue, March 27, 2010)

The text was taken from the catalog “Gorduz, sculpture” by the album publisher Centrul Cultural Palatele Brâncovești, Anastasia Foundation, 2010).

Visiting schedule:
Monday-Friday: 10:00 – 18:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 15:00

The entry is free.

Partners: Catena pentru artă, Evenimentul Zilei, Senso Tv, Jurnalul Bucureştiului “Le Petit Parisien”, Intell News, Modernism, Agenția pentru carte, Ultima Oră, Curatorial.ro, Empower Artists, TVR 1, Propagarta.