Opening
Initiators: Ioan Sbârciu, Olimpia Bera
Curator: Olimpia Bera
Exhibition commissioner: Dan Breaz
Show artists: Ioan Sbârciu, Andor Kőmives, Kudor Duka István, Ioana Olăhuţ, Georgeta-Olimpia Bera, Cristian Lăpuşan, Anca Bodea, Ioana Popa, Veres Szabolcs, Dan Măciucă, Norbert Filep, Alexandra Mureşan, Ştefan Bădulescu, Andrei Budescu, Alina Staicu, Ioana Maria Sisea, Mihai Guleş, Gagyi Botond, Răzvan Botiş, Ovidiu Leuce, Lucian Popăilă, Oana Năstăsache, Flavia Lugigan, Silvia Mateescu, Emma Păvăloaia, Andreea Zimbru, Nicoleta Tarcea, Gáspár Szilárd, Ioana Iacob, Mattia Abballe, Damiano Azzizia, Cristian Avram, Marius Fodor, Tincuţa Marin, Vlad Paraschiv, Mircea But, Ionela Blaj, Mihai Bogdan Dragoş, Andrei Ispas.
In 2013, Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam started an original promoting campaign that marked the return of the painting The Night Watch (1642) after a decade of museum restorations. This campaign included a flash mob in a shopping center in Breda, during which a group of performers spontaneously recreated the tableau of the most famous painting by Rembrandt van Rijn, before the eyes of the alarmed and intrigued customers.
Apart from the historical validity of the work, recording the heroic presence of some figures from the Dutch age of glory, worthy of the collective admiration for the duty shown in defending the city walls, Rembrandt’s work has become a symbol of Amsterdam being acknowledged for its artistic merit. One cannot overlook the moments of forgetfulness of this merit that travel throughout the world: groups of young visitors who ignore the famous painting, whereas captured by the screens of their mobile phones. The promoting strategies of the Amsterdam museum are about to “resurrect” the relationship between the public and the famous works from its patrimony, by valuing the time spent by the wide public in front of the works displayed: Stop taking photos and start drawing! The viewer is put in the position to see, ad litteram, through the eyes of an artist and to create his/her own mental sketch of the works that impressed him/her.
In 2019 Rijkmuseum marks the passing of 350 years since Rembrandt’s death with numerous interactive events as well as an invitation for the public to watch, in real time, the restoration process to which The Night Watch will be subjected. This invitation, addressed to the wide public transforms people, symbolically, into responsible “watchers” throughout the entire process. Anyone can thus claim the right to take part into the preserving of an artistic masterpiece.
By recognizing the importance of this anniversary, The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca brings to the public’s eye the project “The Night Watch” (“Rondul de Noapte”). Paraphrasing the title of Rembrandt’s painting means “to put under watch” the silence of the night and the state of things. Through this, the status itself of the artist is underlined and he occupies the place of the one who “watches from above” over the order of things: all by himself, exploring the night’s horrors, becoming introspective, finding his inspiration or rediscovering the meaning of his creation, evaluating at every turn the liaison between the art and the real world, the present society.
Like The Night Watch, the artwork transcends the historical event and becomes a bridge between generations, between the past, the present and the future. Art lacks straight boundaries – as proven by its mutable borders crossing the events that determine, historically, the painting’s coming to light.
The latest artistic movements are rendered by creators of the new wave, being “watched over” by representatives of the previous generations, present as well on the same stage. The proposed topics are various and represent integral parts of personal creation projects. Nonetheless, they converge into a common point, where the phenomenon represented by the Cluj School of painting is lasting and is on the verge of developing new directions in the current artistic research, the essence of the pictorial language being completed by the graphic, sculptural, photographic or multimedia environments. From this perspective, the project gains the aspect of a group portrait, such as the genre painting in The Night Watch. From the themes presented, we mention the landscape, the portrait or the abstract composition of a Neo-expressionist, Neo-romanticist character, with influences from the Symbolism, Realism and Surrealism, from Dadaism or Magic Realism, a listing that does not stop here but, metaphorically speaking, develops new directions, like “tentacles” accessing the tangible or sensed realities.
The current project, “The Night Watch”, aims to step, from an intimate reality, materialized into an artwork, into a collective consciousness, by setting a comprehensible context for the creative and cultural legacies of certain generations. The exhibit exposes the affinities for the plastic art that have distinguished themselves within the Cluj School and brings forward names that were formed in time on this “fertile ground”.
Fotografii de la vernisajul expoziției de grup „Rondul de noapte / The Night Watch”, organizată de Universitatea de Artă și Design din Cluj-Napoca (UAD), în colaborare cu Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca (MACN). Evenimentul, care a atras un public numeros, a avut loc la Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca în data de 14 aprilie 2019, de la ora 18. La vernisaj au rostit alocuțiuni: Lucian Nastasă-Kovács, managerul MACN; lect. univ. dr. Olimpia Bera, curatorul expoziției; prof. univ. dr. Ioan Sbârciu, președintele Senatului UAD; prof. univ. dr. Radu Moraru, rectorul UAD; prof. univ. dr. Aurel Codoban, filosof și dr. Dan Breaz, muzeograf. Expoziția poate fi vizitată până în data de 28 aprilie 2019. Vă așteptăm cu drag!
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