The Art Museum takes to the streets. “Mercy Gallery” will delight passers-by with works by the world’s great artists

Under the name “MNArT Open View”, the Timișoara Art Museum is launching a unique project, a series of open exhibitions that bring the museum closer to the public. The “Mercy Gallery”, the Museum’s window on the street of the same name transformed into a small exhibition space, will host throughout the year some of the most beautiful works by the world’s greatest artists. In 11 months 11 works of art will be on display.

The small gallery space is open to the public and forms an exhibition nucleus, linking the city with the intimacy of the museum. The first in a series of exhibitions to be held in 2022 is dedicated to the two great Romanian artists of the 20th century, Paul Neagu and Constantin Brâncuși. The Museum brings to the public’s attention the work “Metamorphosis” by Paul Neagu in 1972, from the private collection of Mr. Paul-Filip Ciucur. The choice is meant to celebrate Constantin Brancusi Day, marked on February 19 nationwide since 2016.

“The two-dimensional work, realized in mixed media, is structured as a conceptual dialog with the Brâncușian work “Tors 1922”. Brâncuși’s sculpture, presented in Neagu’s work as a documentary photograph, supported by a black ink notation at the top of the image, “Brâncuși’s “Jeune homme torse” – 1922 metamorphosis by Paul Neagu”, is analyzed and decomposed into three-dimensional graphic cells by Neagu. The research drawing, specific to Paul Neagu’s stylistics and thinking of that period, is a sample of the indissoluble, anachronistic and energetic link between the two great Romanian artists, recognized for their evolutionary, innovative, visionary cultural role”, emphasizes Andreea Foanene, curator and artist, on behalf of the National Art Museum Timișoara.

The work can be admired from February 19 until March 20, 2022, when another exceptional work of art will be installed. The works on display are part of the collections of private individuals who have decided to join the initiative. In fact, the whole project is the result of the museum’s strategy to strengthen links between the cultural institution and art collectors.