Art Safari kicks off a new season from March 8, at the Dacia-Romania Palace on Lipscani. Art Safari reveals the Secret Museum, the well-hidden treasure of Romanian art, with 100 masterpieces by Tonitza, Grigorescu, Luchian, Pallady, Baba, Petrașcu, Mützner, Ressu and many others. Another expected exhibition is the one dedicated to Eustațiu Stoenescu, a consummate master who was successful in the country, but also in Paris and in the USA, known as the portraitist of the Romanian aristocracy at the beginning of the 20th century. The new Art Safari season (March 8-July 28) features 6 exhibitions.
“Starting on March 8, I invite culture lovers to cross the threshold of the Dacia-Romania Palace and discover real treasures of Romanian art. Art Safari is a strategic project of the Ministry of Culture and one of the largest organizers of art exhibitions in Romania. The impressive collection that the public can see in the six new exhibitions is proof of the constant reinvention of the organizers. I think that the exhibitions organized by Art Safari represent the intercultural dialogue between Romania and countries around the world. Through the diversity of the works and artists promoted, the transmitted message reaches a diverse audience and contributes to the promotion of Romanian values and art worldwide,” said Raluca Turcan, the Minister of Culture.
For the first time, Art Safari exhibits one of the most important collections of Romanian interwar art, which includes only big names: Nicolae Grigorescu, Nicolae Tonitza, Ștefan Luchian, Oscar Han, Theodor Pallady, Corneliu Baba, Gheorghe Petrașcu, Samuel Mützner, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Nicolae Darăscu, Camil Ressu, Iosif Iser, Constantin Piliuță and many others.
This impressive collection belonged to the doctor-collector Gheorghe Dinu Vintilă (1898-1978), close to the great Romanian artists, which he donated in memory of his parents to his native commune of Topalu (Dobrogea). This is how the Topalu Art Museum was born, in 1960, set up in the parental home of the late doctor and named “Dinu and Sevasta Vintilă”, in honor of his parents – the only art institution of this kind in the countryside in all of Europe. The collector had a soft spot for Tonitza, from whom he acquired 25 works.
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