On March 2nd at The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania held the opening of an exceptional lithography exhibition, entitled „L’Air du Cirque”, organized by the Ethnographic Museum of Cluj-Napoca and Euro Art Luxembourg.
It presents 84 works by 21 leading French artists of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century like Pablo Picasso, Hermann Paul, Pierre Laprade, Luc-Albert Moreau, Jean Cocteau, Dunoyer de Segonzac,etc.
The most fascinating ones are probably the work of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, exhibits from the first English edition of the book " The Circus ", published in 1952, a book that makes the viewer to take a look at the fantastic world of the Circus.
The circus also inspired the great artist Marc Chagall . In some of his most important works , Chagall used the lithography technique to create posters printed by Fernard Mourlot 's studio in Paris. Lithography, as a technique, has also been used for making invitations to art exhibitions , including the one that can be admired at the Ethnographic Museum, printed by Charles Sourlier, which refers to the 1969-1970 Chagall 's exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.
Another 15 lithographs are presented, signed by Camille Hilaire , illustrating the book " Circus " by Françoise Maillet Joris , published at Robert Mauret , Paris , in an edition of 220 copies.
Thomas Emmerling, a curator of the Euro Art Luxembourg, gave an extremely beautiful speech at the opening , describing a little bit every artist in the exhibition , and shared with us details like his own opinion, favorite artist (actually he could not decide) and other interesting things about the project.
Artists have always been fascinated by this side of the circus, the acrobats, the magic of every show, which is very interesting , fascinating in its own way.
So shortly, the exhibition shows us the universe as seen by the circus.
Those who missed the opening can visit the
exhibition until April 24 , but now you will be paying the 5 lei if you are a
student.
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