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Dr. Marian Țuțui, head of the “Dramatic Art and Cinema” Department within the Institute of Art History, serves as a member of the scientific board of the 15th international conference Cultural Heritage: Research, Valorization, Promotion (30-31, May 2023, Chișinău). On 30 May he will present online the paper Attempts to Map the Beginnings of Romanian Cinema: Five Hypotheses about the Author of the First Film Projection in Bucharest. Also, on 31 May, the film critic and historian will moderate the section dedicated to audiovisual arts. In the four sections of the scientific event organized by the Institute of Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Moldova, no less than 82 specialists from all fields of artistic research participate, representing eight countries: the Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and the Republic of Moldova.
The programme and the abstracts of the conference are available at: https://ich.md/?p=7195 .

On 19 April 2023 the National Museum of Maps and Old Books, Bucharest, hosted the conference held by Dr. Elisabeta Negrău, researcher at G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, entitled Icons with Maps in the European Southeast: Connections between Cartography, Hagiography, and Identity in the 17th–18th Centuries. The lecturer presented a group of Greek icons dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, most of them less studied as yet; the icons incorporate maps or contain topographical representations of identifiable geographical sites, integrated into sacred iconography. Other materials discussed were the Palestinian altarpieces and the souvenir icons for pilgrims made at Mount Athos. The examples were analysed from several perspectives: the visual culture of the era and the development of cartography, the devotional practices, and the territorially-constructed national identities.
The conference is part of the series of events organised on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of Maps and Old Books. Further information at: https://www.muzeulhartilor.ro/event-item/conferinta-icoane-cu-harti-in-sud-estul-european/?lang=en .

Between 17 and 19 March 2023, the Byzantinist Society of Cyprus organized in Nicosia the fourth international conference dedicated to Byzantine and medieval studies. The conference took place in a hybrid format. It brought together several researchers in medieval studies, and the prevailing theme regarded the Byzantine cultural and artistic heritage. The sessions of discussions were dedicated to hagiographic and theological sources, hymnography and liturgy, monastic culture, paideia literature, literary and historiographic incursions, geography and astronomy, law, manuscripts and miniatures, mosaics and inscriptions, Byzantine administrative and urban structures, architecture, art and iconography, frescoes and painted cycles. Dr. Elisabeta Negrău, member of the "Medieval Art and Architecture" Department of the Institute of Art History, held the presentation Icons with Maps, Sacred Landscapes, and Ex-Votos: The Geography of Devotion.

The programme and the abstract are available at: https://byzantinistsociety.org.cy/cbms2023/ .

Film critic Mihai Fulger, researcher at the Institute of Art History, was part, alongside Michelangelo Messina (Italy) and Nenad Dukić (Serbia), of the jury of the Federation of Film Critics of Europe and the Mediterranean (FEDEORA) at the Belgrade International Film Festival (FEST). The 51st edition of FEST, the most important film festival in Serbia, took place between 24 February and 5 March 2023. The FEDEORA jury had the task to evaluate ten films (fiction features) selected in the festival’s main competition. The FEDEORA Award for the best Euro-Mediterranean film went to the second feature of the British director Fyzal Boulifa, The Damned Don’t Cry (Les damnés ne pleurent pas, a France-Belgium-Morocco co-production).

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb will host from 21 February till 26 March 2023 the exhibition Figments of Time/Prividi vremena by the Croatian artist Sandra Sterle. The exhibition is curated by Olivia Nițiș, researcher at the Institute of Art History and vice-president of the Experimental Project Association.

Figments of Time is focused on her ongoing practice of biographical research, archiving and self-archiving in linear and nonlinear forms of relating to documentation and memory. Her discourse revolving around her relationship with her grandfather formulates a non-linear film-structure with installation units that can be seen as separate entities or fragments that are assembled together to form a single unit. A possible layer of her long-term project and current exhibition is an attempt to read her own art practice through her grandfather’s biography.

Olivia Nițiș

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Romanian Academy Awards and honorary degrees

Dr. Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, director of G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, was awarded the Anniversary Medal "Centenary of the Great Unification".

In the Decree no. 1137 of 25 November 2021, published in Monitorul Oficial al României, Part I, no. 1129/26.XI.2021, p. 4 – a document signed by the President of Romania, Klaus Werner Iohannis and countersigned by the Prime Minister, Nicolae-Ionel Ciucă – states that the medal was awarded “in appreciation of the effort made to preserve and promote the memory of events and participants in the achievement of national unity and the modern Romanian state, contributing to the defense and perpetuation of the values in whose name the Great Unification was accomplished."

This distinction honors both the beneficiary and our Institute, which has distinguished itself by its contribution to the study and preservation of the cultural and artistic traditions of the Great Unification era.

The ‟George Oprescuˮ Prize of the Romanian Academy for the year 2016, in the field of art history, went ex aequo to the books Goticul în Transilvania. Pictura (c. 1300-1500) by Dana Jenei and Medieval Wall Paintings in Transylvanian Orthodox Churches: Iconographic Subjects in Historical Context by Elena Dana Prioteasa. The award ceremony took place on 13 December 2018.

Goticul în Transilvania. Pictura (c. 1300-1500) with a foreword by acad. Răzvan Theodorescu and summaries in English and German (București: Oscar Print, 2016, 240 p., 153 ill.), is an updated version of the author’s doctoral thesis.
Since 2013, dr. Dana Jenei is researcher at G. Oprescu Institute of Art History, Department for Medieval Art and Architecture.

The 2015 "George Oprescu" Prize of the Romanian Academy was awarded ex aequo to Ioana Vlasiu, Ioan Şulea, Cora Fodor for their book Ion Vlasiu, and to Rodica Vârtaciu Medeleţ for Valori de artă barocă în Banat. The ceremony took place on 15 December 2017 in the Aula Magna of the Romanian Academy.
The monograph album Ion Vlasiu gives an ample insight into the work and life of an outstanding Romanian artist.
Dr. Ioana Vlasiu, daughter of the artist and a renowned art historian, was a member of G. Oprescu Institute for more than forty years.

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