War and Peace is a visual essay about the strange and terrible incessantness of the human being. About the way in which violence has been, for centuries, invested with meaning, glory and necessity, and peace, glorified ideologically, has remained recorded by history as an episodic state of imponderable fragility. The allusion sought to Tolstoy’s novel is the pretext, but also the direct expression of the two primordial states, which you will find generously illustrated in the history of our familiar art, from Trajan’s Column or the romantic representations of the proverbial national battles to the horrors of the Great War and the class struggle of communist propaganda.

Exhibition by Dragoș Vărșăndan
Scenography Diana Nicolaie
Coordinator Monica Dumitru
Exhibition realized in partnership with the National Museum of History of Romania