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On Tuesday, September 16, 2025, the exhibition of painter Violeta Carp, entitled \u201eChivot\u201d, will open in the Contemporary Art Hall of the Gole\u0219ti Museum.<\/p>\n
Violeta Carp was born on February 17, 1956, in Bucharest. She attended General School No. 193 in the capital and then graduated from the Nicolae Tonitza High School of Fine Arts.<\/p>\n
It was her uncle who first recognized her artistic talent, guided her in this direction, and gave her advice before her admission exam at Tonitza Highschool. He was also the one who showed her the first art album, took her on her first museum visit, and got her a subscription to the Art Section of the Central Library.<\/p>\n
In high school she had remarkable teachers\u2014established artists who encouraged her confidence in pursuing art: the ceramist Ioana \u0218etran, and the painters Gheorghe Ro\u0219u and \u0218tefan Sevastre.<\/p>\n
At university she studied Monumental Art and Restoration, having as professors: Petre Achi\u021benie, Ion Grigore, Nicolae Sava, Vasile Dr\u0103gu\u021b, Corina Popa, Adina Nanu, and others. Following this specialization, she became attracted to old church art and worked on restoration sites alongside Nicolae Sava. After graduation, she painted several churches in the *a fresco* technique, together with her husband.<\/p>\n
Some of the churches she worked on include: Ru\u0219e\u021bu, Foc\u0219ani, One\u0219ti, B\u00e2rlad, Ia\u0219i, C\u00e2mpulung Moldovenesc, Secu Monastery, P\u00e2ng\u0103ra\u021bi Monastery, among others.<\/p>\n
In 1974, while still a student of ceramist Ioana \u0218etran, she was invited to England to take part in an international fine arts festival, along with other colleagues. This offered her the wonderful opportunity to meet renowned artists from other European countries, to visit art schools in Glasgow\u2014including one designed by English architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh\u2014as well as museums. It was one of the significant formative experiences in her career.<\/p>\n
In 1981 she graduated from the Bucharest Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Monumental Art and Restoration, but only in 2018 did she become a member of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania.<\/p>\n
She has held several solo exhibitions:<\/p>\n
* 2024 \u2013 Art Space Gallery \u2013 Roads<\/p>\n
* 2023 \u2013 Mihail Sadoveanu Library \u2013 Holidays, Memories<\/p>\n
* 2022 \u2013 Otopeni House of Culture \u2013 The Fragrance of the Moment<\/p>\n
* 2018 \u2013 Br\u00e2ncovenesc Palaces \u2013 The Naturalness of Place<\/p>\n
* 2015 \u2013 Orizont Gallery \u2013 Under the Same Sky<\/p>\n
The exhibition at Gole\u0219ti is a painting and textile miniatures exhibition that reveals an unfeigned sensitivity. The artist herself explains:<\/p>\n
\u201cChivot\u201d\u2014for its dictionary meaning, but also because the museum inspired me with the idea of a coffer, a keeper of treasures. Thus, I have placed these tears of color with the same gesture with which I once painted pearls on the saints\u2019 vestments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Art critic Roxana B\u0103rbulescu wrote about Violeta Carp\u2019s works:<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at Violeta Carp\u2019s paintings we feel as if we enter a distinctive universe, one in which the artist\u2019s joy of finding inspiration in a soothing yet vibrant space shines through.<\/p>\n
Being a profoundly sensitive spirit, Violeta infuses all her works with this inner quality, a gesture reflected both in the chromatic choices and in the refinement of colors that already define her style, as well as in her compositional balance. Thus, vegetation, in all its beauty, takes on the qualities of a living organism, where plastic values are determined by an overall harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201eThe Chivot\u201d exhibition will have its opening on September 20, 2025, at 1:00 PM, and will remain open to the public until \u00a0November 16, 2025.<\/p>\n
We warmly welcome you!<\/p>\n
Presentation: museum curator Nicoleta Popa Grigore<\/p>\n
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