Exhibitions

In a gesture of noble generosity, Mrs. Irina Lucaci, the widow of Constantin Lucaci, one of the great masters of Romanian sculpture, has recently donated to the “I.L. Caragiale” National Theatre of Bucharest a valuable collection consisting of 21 stainless steel sculptures, which have remained in the artist’s atelier after his passing away and which are publicly exhibited for the first time at the National Theatre, in the foyer of the Grand Hall. The collection is replenished by an expressive stone sculpture, as well as one of the famous “fountains”, situated at one of the theatre entrances facing the Carol Boulevard.

Sculptor Constantin Lucaci, a master of Romanian monumental art, was born in Bocşa, in Banat, on 7 July 1923 and died on 21 July 2014, aged 91. He is especially famous for his kinetic fountains, as well as for the extraordinary artistic properties he conferred to stainless steel, material from which he created hundreds of sculptures in various sizes, up to the monumental ones. One of his creations, Dialogue of the Waves, has been since 1972 the symbol of Romanian Television. The piece, almost 12 meters tall, placed in the TVR yard, can be admired by anyone passing on Calea Dorobanţi in Bucharest.

In 1984, he was awarded the Herder Prize by the Vienna University for his lifetime oeuvre. Beside Romania, the works of the master can be admired in Venice, alongside masterpieces of Picasso, Mark Tobey or Marc Chagall. Other works of the artist can be found in private or public collections in the cities of Antwerp, Copenhagen, Ferrara or Milan.

Since 2012, there is a museum dedicated to the œuvre of Constantin Lucaci at Bocşa, his birthplace.

The preview of the Constantin Lucacidonation at NTB shall take place on Wednesday, 25 May 2016, as of 6.30 p.m., in the lobby of the NTB Grand Hall, in the presence of Mrs. Irina Lucaci and the master’s friends. The event shall be hosted by the art critic Pavel Şuşară.

Entrance is free.

Translated by Simona Nichiteanu