„Ceremonials – Ceremoniale” Art Exhibition at Romanian Peasant Museum

In the New Gallery Hall, the Art Archive Gallery presents the “Ceremonials” exhibition (Ceremoniale), a charity event supporting the Romanian National Red Cross Society and the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant.

Culture, customs, and ceremonials. The best words to describe the numerous oil paintings on canvas that are accompanied by steel and wood carvings. According to Visit Bucharest, the temporary exhibition, which was launched in the New Gallery Hall of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, takes its visitors through the daily lives of ceremonies throughout history. All traditions attempt to achieve psychological solid, social, and cultural influences, which religious and civil rituals strive to attain.

The most important rituals can be traced back to pre-Christian Roman and Greek periods, and their customs have stood the test of time.

The exhibition was bathed in traditional colours, impressing visitors with the works’ originality and beauty.
The artists were present for the opening, eager to see how their work would be received. Many of the artists who create art paintings do it in their leisure time.

One of them is Bogdan Georgescu, one of the artists who had exhibited a painting reproduced after the famous painting Car cu Boi (Oxcart) by the renowned painter Nicolae Grigorescu. The painting of Grigorescu depicts one traditional activity in Romania and, last but not least, a whole ceremonial fieldwork process for the Romanian peasants.

I am not a professional painter, merely an aspiring one. Yet, I have my fans, so to speak, admirers who buy my paintings and support my evolution. I have to study a lot and have a lot of research on the different styles of illustration, various painting techniques, and art development.  I paint during my leisure time, and I try to do my best to convey my feelings toward anybody looking at my work, whether it is displayed in my studio, in an art gallery or in a home somewhere. Aspiring artists like me cannot be other than grateful to organisers of events like that. It’s one of our joys when we share our passion with people who visit the gallery and admire our paintings.

Bogdan Georgescu, aspiring artist, for Visit Bucharest Today!

Many visitors were astounded by the artists’ canvas abilities and admired how they transferred the Romanian traditions, which are sacred and distinctive, as the gallery is well known.

Here is a sequence from the opening of the art exhibition event on May 5:

The exhibition will be on display at the New Gallery Hall from April 5 to April 8, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., until May 21, 2022. On Mondays, it is closed.
Adults pay 8 lei (EUR 1,62); pensioners pay 4 lei (EUR 0,81); students and Euro 26 card users pay 2 lei (EUR 0,40); adults with medium or mild disabilities pay 2 lei (EUR 0,40).

Photos and interview: Visit Bucharest Today