Art at Crowne Plazza: Alma Redlinger

Grand Plazza Hotel – Flora recently inaugurated an exhibition in an atmosphere full of glamour. The 76 year-old artist Alma Redlinger exhibited some of her best paintings in Pontica Gallery, in the hotel lobby. Next to her were art critic and writer Tudor Octavian, the organisers of the exhibition and two young musicians who played in a recital.

Pontica Galleries offer the ideal image of constructive dynamism. Since 1992, when it was set up, the gallery has developed continuously and now it is present both on the seaside and in Bucharest. Its projects of promoting contemporary Romanian art were supported by important personalities such as Ion Salisteanu, Vladimir Zamfirescu, Vasile Grigore, Marcel Chirnoaga, Sorin Ilfoveanu, Corneliu Vasilescu.

Pontica Galleries inaugurated the exhibition hall in the Crowne Plazza – Flora Hotel this year. The organisers’ idea, in agreement with the exquisite ambient, is to organise exhibitions each time accompanied by musical shows and an art lottery. This is what happened this time as well. Alma Redlinger’s paintings harmonised perfectly with speeches, the concert and the lottery which offered substantial prizes: one of the artist’s works, a dinner at Crowne Plazza – Flora and a weekend at the same hotel.

“This exhibition was a surprise and I brought works dating back to 1983 and also some of the more recent ones. In such a beautiful space, my paintings are breathing perfectly,” said Alma Redlinger. Bodies lying down peacefully indicate an artistic thread that has been searched for. Still nature pictures in red and tinges of green could very well be alive if not so close to the abstractness.

Apart from 12 personal exhibitions in Bucharest, 11 collective exhibitions in the country, monumental art works in Poiana Brasov and Bucharest, the artist participated in Romanian art exhibitions abroad: Minsk, Athens, Moscow, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, Helsinki, Barcelona, Osternhout, The Hague and Amsterdam.