There's a creative camp organized every year in Transylvania, in Lăzarea (Szárhegy) to be precise. The camp is quite famous and has a lot of participants each year, from the country and from all over Europe. Last year there were artists from Poland, Germany, Hungary, Austria and Romania of course. I've never been to such a camp, so I don't know how things work, but must be nice as it is organized in an old and beautiful castle, which can be inspiring for the artists.
Lăzarea Castle is one of the most imposing noble residences in Transylvania. According to historians, the oldest residential tower dates back to 1450. The castle took its final form during the time of István Lázár who grew up together with the prince of Transylvania, Gábor Bethlen. The rulers of Moldavia, Petru Rareş and Mihnea Vodă, were also housed in the castle for short periods of time. source
As you can see, there are different sculptures in front of the castle. I need to put this place on my list and visit one day, pin it to the map.
Long story short, today I had the chance to see some of the artwork created at this fine art camp lat year. Knowing where the artworks came from made the whole visit more exciting. As always, I went in without expectations and started smiling the minute I stepped into the exhibition room and shortly you'll see why.
CMYK Box
As I don't know what to say about this, I won't say anything. I'll leave it to you :)
With Deer Around Our Neck
I'll leave this to you as well :)
Accident Observer
So let's take it step by step. The door with those round windows is interesting. The fact that the door is made of wood and the wood looks old makes it interesting to me as I love wooden doors. Placing two faces in those windows is an interesting idea. But to call the composition accident observer ... 😀
This was where I started to smile. Those of you who are following me know why. This week I created something similar and was thinking of that.
However, this was done by pouring paint from the top, drop by drop I suppose. I don't see traces of brush on it.
I don't disrespect anyone's work as whatever you want to create takes time, needs raw materials and bad work needs even more time. Why did I smile? Because I was thinking what would people say about my artwork 😂
Homage to Ion Țuculescu
This was the artwork at which I had to realize this exhibition is going to be a guessing competition. I don't know what to say about this. I didn't even know who Ion Ţuculescu was, so I looked it up to learn something.
Ion Ţuculescu (19 May 1910 – 27 July 1962) was a Romanian expressionist and abstract oil painter, although professionally he worked as a biologist and physician. His artwork became well-known posthumously, when, in the spring of 1965, a major retrospective exhibition revealed him as one of the important post-World War II European modern artists.
Next Door
This painting looked somehow familiar to me. Earlier I saw a painting at the Art Nouveau gallery and I thought it's the same artist, but was wrong.
C-O
Please note, it's not my photo that is blurry, but the artworks.
Surface Extraction
This was where the exhibition started to get interesting for me. Although it wasn't a clear image, I liked it a lot. I love how the light is coming from one side and it looks like there are sparkles there as well. Another thing I love about it is the color combination. I'd say it's perfect, for my taste of course.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out how it was made, my best guess was print on canvas, but I might be wrong.
Placebo - Veritas Prenitur, Non Opprinitu
The title was given in Latin, which means Truth is pressed, not oppressed in English.
This was one of the coolest piece in there and I almost missed it due to my biggest enemy, the reflection. I needed a few minutes to figure out which angle would be ok to get a half decent photo and this was all I could do.
Nest
Same here, I had to take the shot from the side to avoid reflection ruining the photo. At first I thought the nest was made of crosses, but at a closer look I saw I was wrong. However, I was happy to recognize that this and the next ones were linocuts.
Nagyvárad
Nagyvárad is the Hungarian name of Oradea, a city close to Hungary's border. The artwork was made in 2022 but the scene is from another century. I'm not a huge fan of linocut but loved this.
From a different angle, maybe this shot looks better.
The Stolen Capital
This was another very cool piece, ruined by reflection. I'm not sure, but my best guess is that this refers to Bratislava and what you see is the castle of Bratislava, which I had the pleasure to visit in 2019. It's a beautiful place.
Travel
The last linocut was this one, another lovely piece. Look at that chariot. Must have been nobles. I just remembered old books had images like this, but those were drawings I suppose. I need to check out a few to see if I'm right on this.
Overall it was a very interesting exhibition, with a great variety of stiles, from shocking to exciting.
Let's see which one is your favorite today as there's something for every taste here.
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