Visual syncretism

In the middle of May 2025, the National Museum of the Village "Dimitrie Gusti" in Bucharest will be the host of the painting and sculpture exhibition "Visual syncretism"Of the artists: Mirabela Bedaregă, Gheorghe Berindei and Gabriel Blaga.

The initiative of this exhibition belongs to the painter Mirabela Betaregă, who invited to be with the sculptor Gabriel Blaga and who also as a homage to a mentor, joins the works of those signed by the late painter Gheorghe Berindei (1921-1999), representative of the neo-Orthodox.

Mirabela Betaregă is a painter with a very rich activity, which practices both the sacred painting, within the team of artists who work the mosaic for the National Cathedral, as well as the secular painting, of easel. This second way of expressing the miracle of Betaregă, which will be illustrated in the exhibition "Visual syncretism", is close to the sacred painting, at the ideal and spiritual level. The artist links the two types of plastic expression through the use of symbols that come from the language of the icon and which are treated freely, in relation to objects inspired by the traditional world of the Romanian village.

The works signed by Gheorghe Berindei are carrying deep spiritual conontaculations, regardless of whether the artist has chosen to express themselves in compositions of geometitizing, abstract, or in figurative compositions, with static nature or portraits. The austerity and simplicity of his paintings is also a feature of the works of the Mirabele Betaregă. The cancellation of the volumetry and the chromatic simplicity of the art of Gheorghe Berindei aim to suggest the eternal world, of the pure spirit.

The young artist Gabriel Blaga practically, like an inspired craftsman, especially the metal sculpture, made by the traditional techniques used by the craftsmen. Some of the reasons addressed also belong to the traditional world. The sculptor has certain skills in the creation of workshop and monumental works.

The exhibition "Visual syncretism"It will be opened by Dr. Luiza Barcan, historian and art critic and poet and journalist Denisa Popescu Martin.

The opening will take placeThursday, May 15, 2025, 4 pmIn The yellow inn, from the premisesThe National Museum of the Village "Dimitrie Gusti".