Victor Brauner, missing link between France and Romania, celebrates “Timisoara 2023”
“On the Pattern” (1937) by Victor Brauner. Center Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Service of photographic documentation of the MNAM/Dist. RMN-GP/Adagp, Paris
REPORTING – European Capital of Culture this year, the city in northwestern Romania, once a stronghold of Soviet industry, is introducing one of its great artists. With the contribution of French museums.
Victor Braunerborn in 1930 in Piatra Neamt in Moldavia, died in 1966 in Paris, as Parisian asAndré Breton and the closed club of surrealists, isn’t it 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 open anti-Semitism, in both Romania and 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 years Ceauşescu (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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