Exhibitions
Photography exhibition: The wonderful Jugendstil Universe
Artistic photography exhibition at the new NTB Art Gallery
The varnishing can be visited until 30 November 2012.
Thursday, 1st November 2012, starting at 20.00, will take place the varnishing of the photography exhibition "The wonderful Jugendstil Universe, architectonic details from the Danubian countries", in the presence of the author, the Austrian Peter Schubert.
On this occasion, the National Theatre's new Art Gallery will be inaugurated. The gallery is a connected space with the Media Hall, the NTB's second new hall, which opens for the audience on the same evening, accompanied by the representations held by the National Theatre from Timişoara within the N.T.F.
Thanks to a happy coincidence, the author of the theatre play "The Eve of Retirement", presented by the actors from Timişoara, is the renowned Austrian playwright Thomas Bernhard.
Thus, the National Theatre will host a true Austrian cultural evening!
The exhibition from Bucharest is organised by the Lower Austria Region in cooperation with the Working Community of Danube Regions (ARGE Donaulander), with the help of ICR Vienna and the Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest.
Partner: the National Theatre I.L. Caragiale, Bucharest, within the program NTB Paratheatric - Visual Arts.
The Jugendstil current was a real phenomenon: the architectonical styles which preceded it, needed centuries to conquer Europe. On the other hand, the Jugendstil developed in only 25 years and became known under several names on the entire continent. It incorporates traditional, local forms, which at their place, have almost become national symbols - and which can be found abroad as well...
The Jugendstil has developed especially in the Danubian countries, from southern Germany to the Republic of Moldavia: we find here examples from the Belgian-French school, the English and Italian floral and playful elements - with their Hungarian version which includes traditional elements of Slavic origin - as well as the ones from the Viennese secessionism, more austere, or from the historic-national architectonical quotes from Romania.
The Jugendstil might be considered nowadays a genuine symbol of a modern and united Europe: a union through local diversity...
The 120 photographs from the exhibition, close through their artistic undertaking to the intentions of the Jugendstil current, present elements characteristic to facade decorations. These decorations are the legacies of both renowned architects and artists and unknown master builders. It is exactly this diversity of facades which gives nowadays the charm of many European cities...
Peter Schubert's first exhibition dedicated to the Jugendstil current from Romania took place at the Romanian Cultural Institute from Vienna, together with the presentation of a thematic calendar: Romania was at that point one step away from joining the EU. The author proved in this way the belonging of our country to the European family. Other exhibitions followed at the Romanian Cultural Institute from Budapest and, after examples from the Danubian countries, at the Leopold Museum from Vienna, at the head office of Lower Austria's administration from St. Pölten and Pecs.
Peter Schubert: born in 1949, photographer, author and curator. He has the education of a historian and he dedicated himself to studying the historical period from around the year 1900.
He was offered the title of professor. At present he is the spokesperson, director of the publishing house and the curator of the exhibitions from the Klosterneuburg Abbey from Vienna. His archive dedicated to the Jugendstil architecture adds in more than 13.000 photographs realised together with his wife, along their strolls and trips made over the years in more than 20 countries.
Translated by: Izabella Feher
