Conferences
Silvia Colfescu sharing stories with Anamaria Smigelschi
On Sunday, December 8th, 2019, from 11.00 am, the NTB Black Box Hall will host the conference Silvia Colfescu sharing stories with Anamaria Smigelschi: About the Romanian Bohemia of the ‘70s-‘80s. Reunion with the art of Ion Alin Gheorghiu and Vladimir Setran.
About the conference
After a first conference held at NTB in 2018, entitled Stories from Bucharest - a City with the Calling of Survival, writer and graphic artist Silvia Colfescu returns with a new conference, this time in the form of a dialogue with graphic artist Anamaria Smigelschi. You are invited to a discussion about the fascinating bohemia of the '70s-'80s, but also to a reunion with the fine art of Ion Alin Gheorghiu and Vladimir Setran, some of their paintings being permanently on display in the lobby of the Black Box Hall.
Silvia Colfescu is a graduate of the Faculty of Art History of the Institute of Fine Arts "Nicolae Grigorescu" (currently the National University of Arts). Co-founder of the Bucharest Weather magazine, she is a translator from French and English, illustrator, writer. Selective bibliography: 1982 - A Happy Family, Ion Creanga Publishing, Bucharest, republished in 1990, Vremea Publishing, Bucharest; 1985 - Dictionary of Romanian Language for Students, fine arts department, Didactic and Pedagogical Publishing House, republished in 1999 at Cartier Publishing, Bucharest; 2000 - Bucharest, historical, tourist, artistic guide, Vremea Publishing, Bucharest, republished in 12 updated editions; 2004 - Two months in Europe, Vremea Publishing, Bucharest; 2009 - Cats of Bucharest, Vremea Publishing, Buc .; 2013 - Fabulous Aunts and other Stories from Bucharest, Vremea Publishing, Bucharest.
Anamaria Smigelschi is the daughter of architect Victor Smigelschi, son of the Transylvanian painter of Polish origin Octavian Smigelschi, and Maria Anna Giuseppina Trinchieri, of Italian origin. She was married to painter Ion Alin Gheorghiu, who died in 2001. Fine artist - graphic artist, Anamaria Smigelschi has been distinguished throughout her career with numerous national and international awards; she created easel graphics, engraving, graphic design for illustrated magazines, television shows, advertising and poster graphics, book graphics. She is the author of eight children's books and has illustrated countless others.
She has published at the Humanitas Publishing House the volumes of memoirs "Taste, Smell and Memory" (2013), "From Yore, from Afar" (2015) and at the Vremea Publishing House "Passersby Passersby" (2019).
Translated by Simona Nichiteanu
