“Silviu Purcărete. Infinite Metamorphoses” has been launched within the exhibition “Silviu Purcărete – 50 Years in Theatre” in Craiova. Conceived by Mihaela Marin, a renowned photographer who has been following the artistic activity of important theatre directors for many years, the album contains 270 images from 22 performances directed by Silviu Purcărete in Romania as well as abroad, including “Waiting for Godot”, “Faust”, “Lulu”, “Metamorphoses”, “A Tempest”, “Macbett”, “Exit the King”, “Lohengrin”, “Aleko and Francesca da Rimini”, “Antonin Artaud. The Cenci Family”, ” Gertrude”.
The bilingual volume includes an essay by Sebastian Vlad Popa, titled “Lucid Bodies – What I Learn from Silviu Purcărete’s Theatre”.

The album is a project of the Vis-a-Vis Cultural Association with the support of a patron who wished to remain anonymous.

”The team of producers is linked to the artist who inspired the album through the long-lasting threads of aesthetic consonances. It is, thus, a look from the inside of a universe that convinced, through the power of fantasy, that the author belongs to the category of memorable artists. Mihaela Marin is gifted with sharp eyes, accurate sense and intuition, functioning as an excellent mediator between Silviu Purcărete’s art and us, the viewers, inviting connoisseurs of his work to mentally and emotionally reconstruct seen performances. The photographic image has this quality of being an animator of memory. For those who are not yet familiar with Purcărete’s stylistics, seeing the beauty of the moments captured will be an enchantment of the eyes.”

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