Victor Brauner, born in 1930 in Piatra Neamt in Moldavia, died in 1966 in Paris, as Parisian as André Breton and the closed club of the surrealists, isn't he the perfect missing link between France and Romania to celebrate " Timisoara 2023", European cultural capital?
Supported by the Center Pompidou, which lent some forty works out of the 67 exhibited, this first retrospective of the great Romanian painter, unknown in his country, is a historical advent in reverse.
The return of an exile who fled rising fascism and increasingly declared anti-Semitism, in Romania as in Ukraine, on the eve of the Second World War.
A rehabilitation that does not say its name in this country with a tormented history that wants to forget the Ceaușescu years (elected president in March 1974, re-elected in 1980 and 1985, until his death in December 1989).
Mounted against all odds, this retrospective was a “challenge”: three years of dialogue between Paris and Timisoara and a year of
“intensive work”
, between…
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