RECOLLECTIVE by Pulitzer Prize Winner Viorel Florescu Opens RCI’s New Brâncuși Gallery
Fri, Sep 17
|Romanian Cultural Institute
GRAND OPENING
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2021, 6:30 PM EDT – Oct 22, 2021, 5:30 PM EDT
Romanian Cultural Institute , 200 E 38th St, New York, NY 10016, USA
About The Event
A labor of love a long time in the making, our new exhibition space, Brâncuși Gallery, created as part of last year’s major renovation works and named after the greatest Romanian artist, will be inaugurated on September 17th, 2021 with the first retrospective of two-time Pulitzer winner VIOREL FLORESCU, one of the most celebrated photojournalists among New York press of the past decades.
Entitled RECOLLECTIVE and presented in partnership with Howland Cultural Center, Beacon NY (co-curator: Anda Onesa-Lieberman) and the Bronx Documentary Center, the exhibition brings together some of the artist’s most haunting images, captured with insatiable curiosity and a keen eye for the tragic irony of life, which unfolds itself in conflict zones and dangerous places in Haiti, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Russia immediately after the collapse of the USSR, Romania during the 1989 Revolution, and New York during the 9/11 attacks.
The event marks the relaunch…