The photography exhibition “Silviu Purcărete – 50 Years in Theatre” opened on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at the “Constantin Brâncuși” Center of the Craiova Art Museum, as a unique collection of images from theatre and opera performances selected out of the director’s personal archive and authored by Silviu Purcărete himself and by Mihaela Marin, Dragoș Buhagiar, Helmut Stürmer, Sean Hudson, Patrick Fabre, Dorian Delureanu, Pierre Borasci, Simon Anannd (Royal Shakespeare Company), Thilo Beu, Rareș Zaharia, Adi Bulboacă, Alex Condurache, Eöri-Szabó Zsolt, Peter Uhan, Petru Cojocaru, Iulian Ursachi, Nicu Cherciu, Aki Tanaka, Aoi Itoh and others.
Adriana Moca, initiator of the “Silviu Purcărete – 50 Years in Theatre” project and curator of the exhibition, has been part of the artistic team of the “Marin Sorescu” National Theater in Craiova and of the casts of Silviu Purcărete’s performances for nine years and continued to follow his directing activity, documenting it through reviews and articles ever since.
„Photography is a trigger of memory. Its spatio-temporal content activates affective paths that defeat time and revive sequences of the past. They organize our lives in folders containing images. Adriana Moca had the salutary idea of bringing together 50 years of theatre that Silviu Purcărete is now celebrating in a photography exhibition. It’s been half a century since the director started endowing this world with his visions. Structurally, theatre is about looking, and this artist’s directorial rhetoric fundamentally relies on the technique of fragmenting into frames as a way of creation. A hedonism of the visual – this could be the succinct definition of Silviu Purcărete’s aesthetic universe.””
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Itinerary of the exhibition
2024:
May 18 – opening at the Constantin Brâncuși Center, within the Craiova Art Museum, during the International Shakespeare Theatre Festival
September 26 – opening at the Braunstein Palace in Iași, within the International Theatre Festival for Young Audiences FITPTI
2025:
5-30 March – Romanian Peasant Museum, Bucharest
