ArtSay

Dear Mr. Kessler, Thanks a lot for the opportunity of inviting me to remember and describe my memories about the American exhibits presented in Romania between 1979-1983. It is a travel in time and a pleasure to talk about those events. In 1979, when the exhibit “The American Artist at Work” was showed in Bucharest in Sala Polivalentă, I was studying History of Art in the 6th semester at the Institute of Fine Arts “Nicolae Grigorescu” in Bucharest. At that time, I was feeling like being under a bell of glass where the grey colour dominated my whole visual memory and the impact of the American art opened for me a broad screen to a world I only had in my dreams, in other words, a world of joy, happiness, non-conformism, and possibilities to express, especially in Fine Arts, the immediate reality of a universe that I knew only in black and white. Moreover, the handprint, the spontaneity and uniqueness of each artist mesmerized me. Suddenly, my understanding of the content of art was turne...