The cultural event is organized by the Argeș Council and the Golești Museum of Viticulture and Fruit Growing, in collaboration with the “Ștefan cel Mare” County Museum of Vaslui and the National Museum of the Union of Alba Iulia, through the Museikon section.
Centered around colors, chromatic transformations and experiments that convert chemistry and physics into art, the exhibition brings to light both materials of plant, mineral or insect origin, as well as techniques for painting icons and dyeing textiles, rethought and interpreted in the current artistic and cultural context.
Visitors will be able to discover the technique of painting icons on wood, using colors (pigments) obtained from colored earths and various minerals of local origin (Alba County) and methods of their preparation, as well as techniques for obtaining colors of vegetable and animal origin, the tinctorial solution, the use of mordants in dyeing wool and silk, but also the use of dyes in painting.
The opening will be accompanied by a practical Workshop/Workshop on dyeing wool and preparing pigments from local raw materials. So, if you have clothes at home that have faded due to the passage of time, from now on you will be able to learn how to refresh their color or how to reinvent them chromatically!
The cultural event is organized by the Argeș County Council and the Golești Museum of Viticulture and Fruit Growing, in collaboration with the “Ștefan cel Mare” Vaslui County Museum and the National Museum of the Union of Alba Iulia, through the Museikon section.
The documentary exhibition Alchemy of Colors includes the results of research projects carried out by Dr. Dumitrița Daniela Filip, polychrome wood restorer and wood panel painting, Museikon section, and Elena Botez, textile restorer at the “Ștefan cel Mare” County Museum in Vaslui.
