Unpublished Correspondence Marcel Iancu - Lucian Boz

It feels like I am reliving my youth years, when we were working and collaborating in the homeland that “rejected” us. Was the Romanian people to blame or the collective madness that made us scatter across the world? (M.J.)

Four years ago we opened an art gallery called DADA Gallery in Bucharest, at 10 Toamnei Street, with the thought of enriching the cultural landscape of Bucharest with figures of the Romanian interwar culture that were unjustly forgotten or insufficiently known. The first two exhibitions were dedicated to Victor Brauner and Marcel Iancu, a pair of great artists who were born and did their creative work in Romania, but became more known and appreciated in France, Israel and across the world than in the land of their birth.
Prominent members of the Romanian avant-garde and brilliant creators as far back as adolescence, these two great artists of Jewish origin saw themselves forced to leave Romania in the late thirties. The ascension of Nazism and the racia