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16 December 2022, at 5:30 p.m., Braşov Art Museum

The architect Teofil Mihăilescu, Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, invites you to the opening of his photography exhibition “Brașov. Atmosphere, Architecture and Urban Space” on Friday, 16 December 2022, at 5:30 p.m.

An exercise in urban anthropology, the exhibition “Brașov. Atmosphere, Architecture and Urban Space” presents pairs of “twin” photographs, emblematic of the city's architectural-urban development. The photos are part of the cultural project "Brașov. Atmosphere, Architecture and Urban Space", the result of research conducted in the period 2009-2014, completed with the album “Brașov. Atmosphere, Architecture and Urban Space" (2015), a unique concept in Romania, published in Romanian, English, French, German and Hungarian, and launched at national and international book fairs.

The idea of the project was the symbolic closing of an arc over time from the Brașov of late 19^th century -  early 20^th century, to the Brașov of late 20^th century - early 21^st century, presenting photos taken today from the same places where the former photographers took their photos in the past.

The concept of the exhibition invites to the (re)discovery of Braşov, its architecture and atmosphere in a space-time continuum. The exhibition and the project of which it is a part represent an extensive urban anthropological exploration in an attempt to prove that the city is alive and that, even if, one by one, gates, bastions, fortifications, buildings, streets and urban spaces were built, demolished, rebuilt, replaced and transformed (in the natural attempt to respond to the challenges of each present from the past, and to the particularities of the various changing ways of life), it experiences the paradox of constantly transforming itself and, at the same time, of remaining the same, like a being.

The idea having generated the exhibition relates to the awareness that, beyond the transformations through which both the city, on the scale of its “life”, and man, on the scale of his life, experience them, without being able to oppose time, neither the city nor man are finite, but transformable entities, permanently in states of mutatis mutandis, the only thing that can remain through time and times being an immaterial one: the emotion of our connection, each of us, with his/her city.

The opening of the exhibition will be honoured with the presence of: the architect and philosopher Augustin Ioan (Professor at “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism of Bucharest), the architect Răzvan Dracea (President of OAR Braşov-Covasna-Harghita), Bianca-Maria Bălşan (Manager of Braşov Art Museum) and the art historian dr. Radu Popica (curator).

The event will be broadcast live on the museum’s Facebook page.