THE PRICE OF PEACE ART-PIECE / PEACE

Closing speech 19, 7:00 p.m. @Cer Deschis Gallery on Faurului no.18

The theme of the exhibition, proposed by curator and artist Roxana Ionescu, offers a visual impact created by reflections on peace, brought to the stage of the exhibitions at Cer Deschis Gallery, both through examples from our visual history and contemporary examples produced by artists who responded to her proposal.
Several points developing the curatorial idea are presented below.

Art is a Manifesto against platitudes at any level 

"The Sleep of Reason"
, it is not peace, but, on the contrary, "gives birth to monsters"
Francisco Goya (reinterpreted by the curator)

Peace is not a state of platitudes, or of "effortless" existence, but a concretization of an infinite sum of actions taken by those who understand its value and necessity; efforts often obtained after monstrous wars, ended by interventions that can bring Peace. Peace always has a dimension that is actively supported through the embassy of culture, in which both spiritual and emotional symbols meet. 
They can freely rewrite/describe what politics, society, and the economy implement in rigid terms.

Artists played an important role, contributing through imagination-visual language, to the identificationthe state of nations that support, through their policies, the development of art platforms.
Through this system of reciprocity, evocative images have been created in the history of art, used as "ambassadors" in difficult, explosive situations at an international level.To give an example, let us recall the engraving works of F. Goya; "Guernica" by P. Picasso; "The Column of Infinity", "The Table of Silence" by C. Brâncuşi.These works prove that art and the artist bring extremely valuable new information that has an impact on time through a prophetic artistic vision, playing the role of a futuristic "sound board" for humanity, in constant movement and formation, from all view points.
Contemporary artists: Daniela Burnete, Roxana Ionescu, Stefan Jammer, Alina Monastirschi, Dan Perjovschi, Margarita Stepanova, Sorina Tomulețiu, bring us face to face with the depth and complexity of the "State of peace" that is often evoked in the midst of a war, be it personal, national or global, with all its spiritual, emotional, familial, social, economic, and political implications. 
We understand from the visual messages that a "State of peace" is achieved by reorienting the direction of the struggle through active adherence to external mediation.
The unmediated fight begins, developing a state of fatal internal or external dominance;an unwanted relationship between aggressor and victim, which in most cases becomes monstrous. Its reorientation is possible through internal or external support& interventions that become an imperative, often achieved through the involvement of cultural representatives. 
Dan Perjovschi is the artist who opens the present exhibition through the intervention exhibited on the gallery window, which through its form demonstrates that he experiences the political-social state on a personal level, his works becoming historical, national/global markers. In his 40-year artistic career, this subject has been the birthplace of many works, which usually manifest themselves through the artist's intervention in a space, as can be seen in the present exhibition.
The present exhibition discusses the art installation through the 3 invited artists who use the language of the art installation: Daniela Burnete; Roxana Ionescu; Alina Monastirschi.

The artists approach "Peace" all in its complexity, using elements that are capable of becoming true visual trademarks.
Moments like sitting at the dinner table eating in Peace (or eating away your Peace); contemplating nature through pictures of generous, green hills  landscape, where the spatial dimension creates a state of personal awareness reporting to both nature bird thrils internal and external memory sensors; or having the right to the dignity of your own body and to contemplating and assuming its fragility, bring us face to face with the aspects necessary for living. These are some of the basic  human rights that those affected by war lack through a decision that does not belong to them.

Artists Stefan Jammer; Margarita Stepanova; and Sorina Tomulețiu use the two-dimensional art language of painting or photography to evoke, through the symbolism of color and the elements contained in the composition, immediate states of emergency, or to evoke the complexity of the internal alert that signals the disappearance of comfort and the action to regain it.We outline the size of the exhibition through some famous quotes:

"I want peace but I'm not a pacifist"
Nicolae Titulescu 

I appeal to the community ....., which gave us nuclear weapons, to use its great talents now for the cause of humanity and world peace; to give us the means to make nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald Reagan 
 Cer Deschis Gallery, through the curator and artists, invites the public to work together through their works to discover metaphors in the most complex and transformative way possible depending on the time chosen by each one to contemplate the works. That is why the placement of the resting places is grouped so that you can spend time "sitting" with each work. With the help of mediators, in The Art Piece/Peace echibition, all visitors @ Cer Deschis Gallery, experiences, an ongoing conversation 
 unique in Sibiu Gallery.
The constant visual interaction of the audience is thus informally  recorded thru this, and it acquires a "performative-passive" side, inviting the audience to play an active role in resizing the works conceptually. 
Peace is effectively supported by each of us through the acquisition of art and promotion of contemporary culture that makes a difference, not just by taking geopolitical or economic positions.