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Wonders painted on silk: interview with the designer Claudia Trofimov

September 2nd, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

Every scarf is different. Because, as the designer Claudia Trofimov said, “My emotions when I paint a new piece are different, too. Each scarf keeps a piece of me, and none of them looks like the other. I see the silk scarf as a canvas in which I can capture some of the wonders of the world we ...

The mighty Frida: all about her in the exhibition Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up

June 18th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / 1 Response

Showcasing Frida’s most intimate personal belongings – from artefacts to clothing - a must-have exhibition for this summer is opened at Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up is not only about Frida, the artist, as well as Frida, the human being. (Photo ...

My top 10 at viennacontemporary 2016

September 22nd, 2016 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / No responses

It’s official: the art festival at Vienna is open. From 22 to 25 September 2016, all eyes will be on viennacontemporary 2016, at  Austria’s largest international art fair. What we are going to have this year? 112 galleries from 28 countries. A special presentation Solo Expanded, ZONE1, ...

Frank Stella: A Retrospective – the exhibition

September 2nd, 2016 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / No responses

Huge paintings with nothing but regular colour stripes, steel sculptures, reliefs, maquettes: over 50 works of the expressionist Frank Stella are going to be showed at De Young museum in Sand Francisco. “Frank Stella: A Retrospective” is an expansive presentation surveying the career of this ...

Archive: Gabriela Bodin exhibition

April 6th, 2016 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / 2 Responses

Melancholic portraits, sad looks, frightened expressions: the new exhibition by Gabriela Bodin, "Archive", brings us a couple of paintings that make us think about the new meaning of intimacy. “My style is now inspired by the movement gestures of the characters in Francis Bacon painting, from ...

10 years of Vladimir Șetran in Cahiers du Cinéma

March 23rd, 2016 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / No responses

It is always interesting to find out what's behind a finished painting hanging on the wall of a gallery. How many hours of hard work, how many trials, how many white nights and sleepless days until I could enjoy the beautiful and heart throbbing paintings. The exhibition “Cahiers du cinéma” of ...

Gabriela Bodin exhibition: it’s all about emotions

February 22nd, 2016 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / No responses

Dramatic portraits of lonely characters, fragments of a world dominated by fear, hostile spaces: the painter Gabriela Bodin takes us in a world full of emotions in her “Retention” exhibition, the first one in Romania for the artist. “Yes, you have to take some steps back to feel and see the ...

3 new artists in an interesting exhibition

July 6th, 2015 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / 2 Responses

I love to discover new artists and I never miss the opportunity to meet them in person. Therefore, “Trei” (“Three”), the exhibition held at AnnArt Gallery in Bucharest was an interesting and refreshing stop for me last week. Andreea Albani, Andrei Mateescu and Constantin Rusu: their 12 art ...