Even if it is a bit early, the Bucharest Art Salon 2000 has already been organised to the last detail and participants are thinking of the prizes that they will receive. The organisers for this event are the Bucharest Branch of the Plastic Artists Union, the City Hall’s Cultural Projects Centre and ArCuB.
They will bring this year hundreds of artworks in most art galleries in Bucharest. The Salon will be held between November 1 – 15 and has the logo” 2000 signs – Earth, Water, Fire, Air.” Last year, the salon was more concerned with the aspects of time from a metaphysical point of view; this year, the preoccupation for materiality is more visible.
The main coordinator of the manifestation is the plastic artist Rares Pantea, the president of the Bucharest Branch of the Plastic Artists Union, and the coordinators for the four sections are Aurelia Mocanu (Earth), Gheorghe Vida (Fire), Adrian Silvan Ionescu (Water) and Maria Magdalena Crisan (Air). The artworks will be exhibited in the central galleries of Bucharest: Orizont, Apollo, Simeza, Galla, Caminul Artei, GAMB and Podul.
To present a more realistic landscape of Romanian plastic art, each of the coordinators will invite renowned artists that displayed at some moment or another some works related to the theme at hand. The Bucharest Art Salon 2000 can be attended by members of the Plastic Artists Union and graduates from all art universities, residents of Bucharest. The jury will select the works as they will be exhibited and then the prizes will surface.