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Brașov Art Museum in partnership with the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University invites you to attend the opening of an exhibition celebrating the artist Magdalena Rădulescu (1902-1983), an exhibition which is curated by Alexandra Ardelean.

The exhibition “Magdalena Rădulescu. 120 Years of Bohemian Grace”, organized on the occasion of the 120^th anniversary of the artist’s birth, brings together works of art from 10 private collections, graphics and paintings. The opening will take place on Friday, 5 August, at 6:00 p.m., and it will be hosted by the Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University, located on 29 Eroilor Blvd., in Brașov.

Magdalena Rădulescu (1902-1983) was born in Râmnicu-Vâlcea, but she spent her childhood years in Constanța. She studied art in Munich and Paris, but then successfully forged her own original artistic path.

She easily integrated into the world of French and Romanian intellectuals, and the portraits she achieved actually illustrate the social circles in which she found support: the writer Cella Serghi, along a sincere and close friendship; the art critic Petre Comarnescu, who wrote the first consequential monograph about the artist, in 1946; the writer Miron Radu Paraschivescu, for whom she also illustrated a book; the portraits of the writers Henriette Yvonne Stahl and Lucian Blaga, as well as of celebrities who distinguished themselves in the interwar Romanian theatre (Ion Sava, Lilly Carandino, Nicolae Carandino, Tantzi Cocea, Clody Bertola), and many others.

The themes of the artworks that the visitors will discover within the exhibition feature self-portraits, genre-specific scenes depicting the world of show and carnival (cavalcades, circus characters and fearless acrobats), but also Romanian dances, such as “hora” traditional round dance and “calusari” ritual dance.

Magdalena Rădulescu proudly promoted the Romanian traditions in all the countries she travelled to. Moreover, the oriental influences that left a strong mark on her from early childhood also have their say in the paintings now awaiting the visitors.

During a fruitful and uninterrupted artistic activity, her works enriched numerous museum collections and dozens of other private collections around the world.

Overall, the exhibition “Magdalena Rădulescu. 120 Years of Bohemian Grace”, brings in our city  82 works from 10 Romanian private collections including: Cătălin Casperschi Collection, I. and L. Gavrilescu Collection, Uzunov Collection and Mihai Astratinei Collection.