Sticlografii (Glass-o-Graphs) by Alexandra Mureşan by Roberta Nagy,ITA,1st year

Alexandra Mureşan is a visual artist and a  PhD student at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca where she studied Ceramics. Her creations  have been on display in a lot of exhibitions all over the country but also abroad.

This exhibition of mesmerizing glass art was organized at the cultural café Espresso Studio (at street Baba Novac 27), the café of International Festival of Contemporary Ceramics. The opening was on 25 October at 7 pm, but the exhibition can be visited until December 1^st every day, during the café’s program.

Intermediate between us and the world, glass objects have become quite scarce today and the artist Alexandra Mureşan breaks this absence by melting her glass into visible tangible ideas and objects which embellish our everyday life. Unfortunately, the dual nature of glass– both its beauty and fragility – makes it vulnerable to breakage. If you own or collect glass art sculpture you may find yourself in need of glass restoration or repair.

There are more techniques used for glass making such as glass blowing which uses a combination of sand and soda lime, along with colouring agents, to produce a raw material, which will be melted together to form molten glass. Another technique is hot sculpting which is used after a solid metal rod gathers the molten glass from the furnace; the glass is then shaped with special tools. The hot sculpting process tends to make much larger solid pieces of glass art. Alexandra Muresan joins the select group of European and American masters of this art.

News from Bianca Vitcu ITA-2018 SOTTOBOSCO

 I would like to introduce you to a special exhibit, meant to celebrate the 70th anniversary  of the great master Ioan Sbarciu, that happens as we speak in our city. It is called SOTTOBOSCO. Already sounds mystical, doesn’t it? At least to me it does. 
  This project actually sums up three exhibitions, each of them using as a title an expression connected to the forest. The master Ioan Sbâciu,  the iIalian painter Enzo Cucchi, and their special guest Markus Lüpertz, worked together at one of the parts named “The murmur of the forest and of the wind”, which is actually my favorite, and have created some absolutely wonderful, huge paintings in dark tones and hues, with a frenetic mix of colors, amazing dynamics of rhythm, introducing you to the enchanting world of the bosco.

   The other two exhibitions represent the work of two different generations of artists, one set of them born in the 70-80's,the other one in the late 80's, mid 90's. Some of the works have the same theme as the main exhibit, the forest, other works having a different topic, from childhood memories to adult  ones.

  I truly recommend it to anyone seeking a deeper fountain to hydrate our dry, urbanized environment of our minds.

In the dinosaurs' world stars are green by Ingrid Dan, ITA, Ist year

On the 7th of October the opening of Tincuța Marin’s exhibition “In the dinosaurs' world stars are green” took place at Atelier Patru, and it stayed open until the 16th of October. The young artist showed a few pieces of her work, both paintings and drawings, that her depict her personal creative style.

Her work explores the limit between reality and the realm of the absurd, by reinterpreting parts of the real world in the artist’s own perspective. This way, she created the dream-like atmosphere of a magical world filled with atypical, deformed characters. Through her pieces, the artist creates a metamorphosis of reality and beauty into a distorted area of fantasy full of grotesque elements. She introduces to the viewer a new creative way of perceiving the real world, and encourages creating an individual reality through exploration of the concrete facts and forms.

"DEAR" – PAUL MUREȘAN, by Alina Grozav, Ist year ITA

This exhibition signed by the Romanian artist Paul Mureșan (29 years old) opened its gates to the public on October 13th and took place in the Forum House, Alba Iulia. The whole exhibition is dedicated to forced relationships, quarrels and loneliness felt in a relationship. In this project the artist made a sincere confession through his artworks, in an attempt to explore his most hidden thoughts, to know and understand his own feelings.A small collection of artworks made up of 23 paintings, brought to the public by MozaiQ, tell a love story, a story that the author shared in the simplest words because "There is no need for big words to express deep feelings." They show the life and dynamics of a gay couple and the fear of sharing your life with a wrong person.

Paul Muresan is a young animator, director and illustrator with a solid and diverse artistic experience.  His short films have been selected and awarded at festivals around the world such as Annecy, ITF Stuttgart, Cannes and Anim'est. Paul is the author of several personal exhibitions not only in Romania but in  Europe too, and is known especially for the animated shorts "Nap" (2014) and "Mom, Dad, I Need to Tell You Something" (2016).

ZAIN 2018, by Alexandra Chartin, ITA, 1st year

This year, ZAIN, a Cluj based design festival, opens its doors to the public from 19 to 28 October. Celebrating its 4th year on the Cluj art scene, 40 events are set to take place all over the city, from different art areas such as design and fashion, but also dance and theatre.

Over 100 exhibits of  Romanian artists are to be shown in the 800- metre exposition space built in the central square. This year, ZAIN granted 2500€ in scholarships for young artists, whose art can be seen Saturday, October 20, in the central square. The program is available on the festival's official page.