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Maramures rugs by Victoria Berbecaru -Exhibition curated by Mircea Cantor at Plan B Gallery, Cluj Napoca, Romania 2008.TRANSCRIPT
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foto: Mircea Cantor
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tipar: IDEA design & print, Cluj
Victoria Berbecaruborn in 1944 in Ciceu Mihãileºti, Bistri!a Nãsãud, Romania
lives and works in Botiza, Maramureº, Romania
Education 1973 Faculty of Philology, Iaºi, Romania
From 1974 she moves to Botiza, where she rediscovers and revitalizes the traditional carpet making
and natural wool coloring, still alive in the memory of the old ladies from the village.
Selected exhibitions1977, 1982 Botiza, Ro
1978–1979 Group shows in Sighetu Marma!iei and Baia Mare, Ro
1983 Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Ro (solo)
The Village Museum, Bucharest, Ro
1984 The Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, Cluj, Ro
1992 Workshop and exhibition with local school, Slatina, Ukr
1994 Das Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, D
The Museum of Romanian Civilization, Sibiu, Ro
1996 The Parliament’s Palace, Bucharest, Ro
1997 The Museum of the Criº Rivers County, Oradea, Ro
1998 French Cultural Center, Bucharest, Ro
2000 Tourism Fair, Berlin, D
2004 Workshop and exhibition inside the Commercial School, Vienna, A
2006 Fair/Exhibition, Strasbourg, Fr
The Romanian Traditional Carpet, Romexpo, Bucharest, Ro
2007 Castle of Parma, I (solo)
2008 Centre Culturel Peruwelz, B (solo)
A privi un covor maramureºan autentic e ca ºi cum ai mînca dulcea!a din cãmara bunicii.
Din el emanã o energie ºi o for!ã vizualã înscrise în simboluri strãvechi ºi forme ce au strãbãtut
timpul din genera!ie în genera!ie pînã azi. Temele ºi motivele sînt inspirate din muncile cîmpului,
din sãrbãtorile religioase sau agrare ºi din diferite alte obiceiuri ºi credin!e; compozi!ia lor în spa!iul
covorului ºi alegerea culorilor le dã for!a ºi via!a: rodul pãmîntului, floarea, bradul, poarta, cãlãre!ul,
liliacul, vîrtelni!a, cerbul, hora maramureºanã, din!ii de lup, ºarpele, grebla, unda apei. Lîna este
coloratã manual cu pigmen!i naturali: sunãtoare, coji de ceapã, coji de nucã, crusin, coajã de prun.
Am selectat ºi reunit pentru aceastã expozi!ie cîteva dintre cele mai frumoase covoare ale Victoriei
Berbecaru; alegerea mea nu e cea a unui etnograf sau antropolog, mã rezum pur ºi simplu în a subli-
nia prin expozi!ie autenticitatea acestei arte, lãsînd privitorului ºansa de a se bucura pur ºi simplu de
ceea ce are în fa!a lui.
Mircea Cantor
Watching an authentic Maramureº carpet resembles eating jelly from grandmother’s larder.
It spreads both energy and visual force hidden within its ancient symbols, as well as forms crossing
over time, generation by generation until the present day. Its themes and motives are both inspired
by the labour on the fields, by religious or agrarian feasts and by different customs and beliefs.
Their composition and choice of colours offer them their strength and life: the lord-and-ladies,
the flower, the fir, the gate, the rider, the lilac, the reeler, the stag, the Maramureº round dance,
the wolves’ teeth, the snake, the rake, the water wave. The wool is handcrafted, coloured with natu-
ral pigments: all-saints-wrote, onion peels, nut rinds, buckthom, plum tree bark.
I have made a selection for this exhibition of some of the most enchanting carpets made by Victoria
Berbecaru; my choice is not similar to that of an ethnographer or anthropologist, I am just emphasi-
zing the authenticity of this art, rendering the chance for the viewer to simply enjoy the works.
Mircea Cantor
Victoria Berbecaru
Covoare maramureºeneExpozi!ie ini!iatã de
Mircea Cantor
27 februarie–8 martie 2008
Vernisaj: 27 februarie 2008, orele 18–21
poster:
Compozi!ie cu registre / Composition with registers, 2007
natural colored wool, 80 " 178 cm
Sãptãmîna sau trecerea timpului / The week or the passing of the time, 2007
natural colored wool, 57 " 170 cm each
Compozi!ie cu registre / Composition with registers, 2007
natural colored wool, 110 " 240 cm
Pomul vie!ii / The tree of life, 2007
natural colored wool, 70 " 200 cm
Victoria BerbecaruCovoare maramureºene
Expozi!ie ini!iatã de Mircea Cantor
Plan B27 februarie–8 martie 2008