Arad Museum Complex

Event title: Night of Museums Locations: SALA CLIO (10 Horea St.) - 21.00 – 01.00 ART MUSEUM (2-4 Gh. Popa St., second floor) - 20.00 – 01.00 CULTURAL PALACE (George Enescu Square 1, Arad) 20.00 – 01.00

Sunday, May 19 MUSEUM OF LIPOVA (Lipova, str. N. Bălcescu 21) 19.00-23.00

Phone: 004 0257 281247 office@museumarad.ro www.museumarad.ro

Free entrance

Night of Museums Program at the Arad Museum Complex:

ART MUSEUM (2-4 Gh. Popa St., second floor) Night of Museums Program: 20.00 – 01.00 The permanent art exhibition of the museum Kinema Ikon Workshop: Wunderkammer Painting and Chinese stamp exhibition, Adrian Ciceu Collection (Ovidiu Maitec Room) The exhibition consists of two distinct zones, which are organically related; one with modern Chinese painting and another with engravings, namely Chinese woodcuts made using the traditional technique. The modern Chinese paintings are made by master Ma Cheng Xiang (born in 1937), painter and renowned calligrapher, ex-Painting professor at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. His creation, with expressionist accents, provides a very up-to-date perspective over traditional contemporary Chinese art. Among the artist’s favourite themes there are also two of the major subjects of traditional Chinese painting: animals and landscape, respectively. Animals (cats, stags, foxes or owls) are displayed in a modern manner, with extremely reduced means of expression in appearance, but the painter manages to capture, with a subtle humour, the essential, the character of each animal. “The Chinese engravings displayed at the Art Museum in Arad are, most of them, woodcuts made between 1950 and 1970, following the aquarelles of some famous modern Chinese painters: Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, Ren Bonian, Li Keran, etc. The favourite subjects of the paintings, that were made using the traditional woodcut technique, are cherished themes of the Chinese artists: animals, birds, insects and flowers” – Ioan Colta, museum curator. Activities: 20.00-01.00 - Interactive Engraving Workshop of the artist Adrian Sandu, graphic artist from Arad 20.30 – Drawing Contest for children (3-8 years), the little friends of the Art Museum, coordinated by Ioan Paul Colta, restorer

CLIO ROOM (10 Horea St.) Night of Museums Program: 21.00 – 01.00 21.00 – Official opening of the fine arts exhibition “Salonul de acuarelă 2013” Presents: Dan Lăzărescu Interactive workshop with the club members Partner: Fine Arts Club “Ion Andreescu” Arad “Salonul de acuarelă” is a traditional exhibition of watercolors organised annually during the last 13 years. On occasion of the Night of Museums, the club organises an interactive creation workshop in Clio Room, and the people visiting the exhibition can get directly in touch with the artists. The Fine Arts Club “Ion Andreescu Arad” was founded in 1956. During 57 years, it has been organising numerous cultural activities, such as exhibitions in Romania and abroad, creation camps, outdoor workshops etc., through which it has fully contributed to the formation of the artistic taste of the people from Arad and to the local artistic life. It currently has around 50 active members from Arad, Chişineu Criş, Pecica, Nădlac, Şiria, Zerind, as well as from Italy and Hungary.

CULTURAL PALACE (George Enescu Square 1, Arad) Night of Museums Program: 20.00 – 01.00 Permanent Archaeology exhibition On occasion of the Night of Museums, little potters from Atelierul Ceramickids of Palatul Copiilor Arad show works inspired by the museum exhibits. Within the project “Din mâinile meșterului olar”, ongoing during January-Mars, in the museum showcase, the children from Atelierul Ceramickids attended several interactive activities at the museum. Here they have discovered techniques concerning the old pottery craft, and then, in the workroom, they have skillfully made clay objects. The ceramics objects created by the children (supervised by teacher Ecaterina Gerold) became museum exhibits, being displayed in the archaeology exhibition, room 1. 20.30-01.00 Permanent History Exhibition Documentary projection “Cercetaşii României în războiul cel mare”, movie made by The Initiatives Group “Dimitrie Ţichindeal Arad” and “Datina Străbună” Association Historical reconstruction. Display of uniforms belonging to Transylvanian volunteers in the Romanian Army during WWI Partner: Initiatives Group “Dimitrie Ţichindeal Arad” and “Datina Străbună” Association Natural Sciences Exhibition Exhibition “A century of natural history. Treasures of Arad patrimony in the Collection of Gimnaziul Superior Regal” Partner: National College “Moise Nicoara Arad” A collection comprising 164 naturalised exhibits (birds, mammals, fish, reptiles), with historical, patrimonial value, but also extremely carefully preserved, shows the natural environment of Arad one hundred years ago. The age of the exhibits is proved by the original labels, of which most are still in use. The display of the Collection of Gimnaziul Superior Regal of Arad, together with the naturalised exhibits from the museum patrimony, enables a complex presentation of the fauna of this geographical area. Gimnaziul Superior Regal of Arad, currently the National College “Moise Nicoară”, has received significant donations of zoological naturalised exhibits during 1870 and 1900. Local personalities such as Mayor Atzel Peter, Lejteny Sandor, count Wenkheim, have contributed to the gathering of a valuable faunistic patrimony from the Arad area, kept in the school specialised cabinets. Birds like pelicans, bustards, cranes, blue rock thrush , which disappeared from the Arad county area, rapacious birds, forest birds- some having very small dimensions, exotic birds, carnivorous mammals, rodents, waders and, last but not least, exotic fish – exceptionally well preserved, exotic mammals, ornithorhyncus and armadillo or different species of turtles, can be admired at the exhibition opened at the Natural Science Section of the Arad Museum Complex. 20.00 - Official Opening of the Photo Exhibition, Foto Club Mihai Dan Călinescu Craiova Temporary exhibitions room Partner: Fotoclub Arad

Sunday, May 19, 2013 MUSEUM OF LIPOVA (Lipova, 21 N. Bălcescu St.) Free entrance during 19.00-23.00 20.30 – Official Opening of the Photo Exhibition “Echipa de fotbal Şoimii Lipova” Presents: Corina DUBEŞTEAN, museum curator 21.00 – rock music concert Imagica

Partners: Reţeaua Naţională a Muzeelor din România, Consiliul Judeţean Arad, Primăria Oraşului Lipova, Cenaclul de Arte Plastice Ion Andreescu Arad, Fotoclub Arad, Colegiul Naţional Moise Nicoară Arad, Grupul de iniţiativă Dimitrie Ţichindeal Arad, Asociaţia Datina Străbună, Atelierul Ceramickids de la Palatul Copiilor Arad

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