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Teatrul este, în esenţă, momentul acela de „acum”, desfăşurat pe viu, sub ochii spectatorului. Însă teatrul înseamnă şi acumulare, gând, sinteză, cantonare în memorie şi raportarea ulterioară la aceasta, ca treaptă superioară a înţelegerii actului artistic şi a semnificaţiei sale profunde.
19 October 2016, Press Releases
In its essence, theatre is that nowmoment, live under the very eyes of the spectators. Still, theatre also means accumulating, it means thought, synthesis, pinning to memory and further revisiting, as a superior level of understanding the artistic act and its deep significance.
Therefore, the National Theatre Festival continues, at its 26th edition, to offer a series of impactful exhibitions, aiming at broadening the range of approaches of the theatrical phenomenon, revisiting memories and unveiling new, yet unknown, facets of great artists.
Irina Tapalagă, art director of the NTF speaks about the five exhibitions that National Theatre offers during the 10 days of the event :
“The NTF exhibitions continue to play the card of spatial challenge. We have five exhibitions, all of them with particular styles, plans and logistics. It is usually the space that dictates the approach and we have verified this again, confronted with five enclosures totally different from each other: The National Museum of Art of Romania, two foyers of the National Theatre Bucharest, the ACT Theatre and the Kube Musette Gallery. All of them will have this common feature and mission, during the 10 days of the festival: to pay a visual tribute to Romanian theatre.
The oversized white marble space of the foyer of the Grand Hall of the National Theatre Bucharest hosts the photography, video and graphics exhibition, Căciuleanu. The exhibition launch is also the official opening of the 26th National Theatre Festival. The central piece of the exhibition is a giant screen, surrounded by black and white photographs. The works breathe altogether, filling a space which apparently is not easy to tame.
In the warm space of the foyer of the Studio Hall of the National Theatre Bucharest, we will present Oana Maria Cajal’s picto- collages Shakespeare ad infinitum, wonderfully framed by the graphic texture of the red bricks.
Kube Musette, a chick gallery on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest’s main boulevard, projects the visitor into another, modern- minimalist word. A cubic white space with a glass wall, simple, clear, purely drawn will house the exhibition dedicated to Marcel Iureş / Attitudes. The space itself challenges, represents a visual impact, through the black and white photographs combined with oversized, intense red- colored images.
Again on Calea Victoriei, just a few steps further, we find Teatrul Act. The first independent theatre in Romania, celebrates its 18 years of existence. In the avant-garde style of the foyer, a collection of posters of the best performances of the theatre will be on display.
The National Museum of Art of Romania completes the list of diverse exhibition venues of the festival. The elegant, classical space frames an installation conceived by set- designer Dragoş Buhagiar. The space becomes one of contrasts. The rigorous surroundings comprise objects that have been conceived in the context of several theatrical creations.
Transmutations is an exhibition of objects that are far more than just objects, a project accomplished with the support of ARCUB- Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Bucharest and with the exceptional contributions of the “Radu Stanca” National Theatre Sibiu, the German State Theatre Timişoara, the Bulandra Theatre Bucharest and the “Vasile Alecsandri” National Theatre, Iaşi.
(Irina Tapalagă- curator)
The five NTF exhibitions will be open to the public during the ten days of the National Theatre Festival, October 21st-30th.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the festival!