Return to Myth

The exhibition addresses the theme of an imaginary space, governed by mythological characters such as solomonaries, elves, dragons, forest maidens and water spirits. The works in the exhibition RETURN TO MYTH are guides that make it possible to explore a limited space, but which can become a portal, where beings from another world play, collide, fall apart or rearrange themselves symbolically.

Transmuted into the contemporary, tradition is activated as a legitimizing ideology of new identities. The exhibition speaks of a return to a symbolic place where the characters lose their outline in the act of participation, reflecting the tension between matter and essence.

Graduate of the “Nicolae Grigorescu” Academy of Fine Arts, class of 1998, sculptor Giulian Dumitriu has exhibited at art and design biennials, in galleries and cultural centers in Bucharest, Milan, Florence, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Toronto, Monte Carlo, New York.

Petru Iosif Pap (Peter Gate), an anthropologist, visual artist, and experimental musician, explores sound as a tool for research and cultural connection. His central project, The Deep Sound of Space, integrates traditional sonorities into a contemporary electro-acoustic language.

Giulian Octav Dumitriu – sculptor
Petru Pap – multimedia artist, musician
Curator: Iulia Gorneanu
Co-curator: Otilia Cassiani (Lovable Art)