Event

Beyond Architecture exhibition

Adrian Bălteanu

100 paintings, oils, watercolors, drawings, book graphics, engravings by 52 architects along with those of G. M. Cantacuzino, Paul Smărăndescu, Gheorghe Simotta, Horia Teodoru and Nicolae Cucu are exhibited in the Galeria Dialog of the City Hall of Sector 2, from October 19 to November 18, 2011.

The exhibition "Beyond Architecture" is organized in collaboration with the Union of Romanian Architects.

The curator is the art critic Ruxandra Garofeanu and architect Militza Sion, together with Răzvan Luscov and Francisca Stoenescu, on behalf of the UAR. The selection of all the exhibited works was made by art critic Ruxandra Garofeanu, prof. dr. arh. Aurelian Trișcu and art critic Pavel Șușară.

The opening discussed how this part of architects' work is passed on to future generations. Curator Ruxandra Garofeanu told about the surprise of a person who had bought a cupboard in which, by chance, she found 800 works by G. M. Cantacuzino. The National University of Art provided paintings by Horia

Teodoru from a collection of over 100 works by the architect. The exhibits by Paul Smărăndescu, Gheorghe Simotta and Nicolae Cucu come from the archives of the Romanian Union of Architects.

Architect Șerban Sturdza invited the architects to consider repeating such an action. "The exhibition uses a neglected resource, the personal side of architecture. The drawings are testimony to how the project came about. We look at the volumes on the street, but we don't think about the complexity of who stands behind them. It is absolutely necessary to multiply this exhibition. The Union of Architects already has an important collection of sketches, drawings and paintings, but it can be enriched. Each one of us should think about accumulating this heritage, scattered in everyone's offices, in a future Museum of Architecture. We should be aware that by disappearing these things, we will also lose a side of our profession."

"We have here the testimony of a valve of comfort to the souls of architects during communism. I've been doing that since 1982. I found in watercolors a way to resist the indications, which came like lava in the Bucharest Project Institute, where I worked," added architect Gheorghe Leahu.