Exhibitions

The exhibition opening will take place in the Media Foyer of the NTB (wing facing the Grand Hotel) on Friday, March 6, 2026, at 6 p.m.

Stefania Micsunescu works in the fashion industry. After a day's work, she comes home to a canvas and her paints. There, on the white canvas, the artist's inner world can be unleashed without restraint—intense, warm, vibrant.

"... since I was little, I have enjoyed drawing, painting, and creating fashion sketches. I attended the Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design, specializing in fashion. Painting has remained a passion that I pursue in various ways almost daily with great enthusiasm. For me, painting is a form of expression, relaxation, and a way to recharge myself with beautiful things."

Fields of irises pulsing under the light, forests filtered through pink and purple, red flowers becoming birds with wings spread in the air, sunflower petals gathered on a golden background—all transform reality into a state of being. Nature is not rendered, but traversed, felt, translated. The colors are firm, assertive, their energy not timid, but declarative. But her garden is not just an explosion of color. There are also tall trees, almost mineralized, with branches like exposed veins, with trunks cracked by time. In these works, the chromaticity retreats towards firm contours, towards dense grays and whites. If in some canvases color sings, here matter breathes.

Trained in fashion design, Stefania brings a rigorous sense of composition and balance to her painting, and the space takes on a theatrical tension. Nothing is random—every line supports an interior architecture. A luminous ether surrounds places and beings; the skies are azure, almost within reach, so there is no distance or coldness. The landscape does not recede, but envelops us. Contours break down into geometric shapes, the horizon becomes crisscrossed with bars, and pigeons tear the heavy chains from our souls. A poem of liberation runs through these powerful yet sensitive, vulnerable images. A force of fragility is the paradox that defines the artist.

Her paintings offer us not only places, but also beings that take us out of our role as spectators. Her characters, whether animals, plants, birds in flight, or trees frozen in an almost human gesture, are not mere decorative presences. We are being watched, and in that silent exchange, emotion is born. Whether it bursts into bright red or concentrates in tense grays, each work seems to say the same thing: life is not dull. Life is intense.

At the National Theater, a space for expression and emotion, these works become the stage for a different kind of performance—that of the inner self. The Garden of Glances is, in essence, an invitation: to slow down, to feel, and to have the courage to be seen. (text by Alexandru Stanescu).

The exhibition remains open until March 28 and can be visited daily between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu