The Oradea City Museum-Cultural Complex in collaboration with the Brukenthal National Museum, the "Radu Stanca" Theater in Sibiu, the Regina Maria Theater in Oradea, the Romanian Diocese United with the Greek-Catholic Roman Catholic Diocese of Oradea, invites you to the opening of the painting exhibition Faust: Vanity and Despair.

Exhibits by artist Alexandru Cînean.
Curators: Prof. Dr. Jan de Maere, Dr. Diana Iancu, Dr. Alexandru Chituță. 

The event will take place on September 6, 4:00 PM at the Oradea City Museum-Cultural Complex, in the Princely Palace, building B, 1st floor, room 13.

Visual artist Alexandru Cînean was drawn to the challenge of an exhibition project on the dangers of human intelligence. The motif is inspired by a masterpiece of universal dramaturgy: the tragedy faustian by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The occasion was the performances of this play directed by Silviu Purcărete, at the “Radu Stanca” Theatre in Sibiu. The extremely laborious project first involved the execution of a series of 20 preparatory studies, then transposed onto a double format, 120 x 120 cm. The compositions are conceived as a series of interrogations about the human soul and the condition of the actor, which focus on human emotions caused by desire and pleasure, by the pursuit of fame and greatness, captured in an ambivalent manner, as a result of the actors’ confrontation with their roles and their own image, but also about death and salvation. But not only the actors, but also the director, the painter, the viewer, whoever he may be, can recognize themselves in this endeavor.