Online revolt after the opening of an exhibition, in the Capital: “Since when did he become acceptable to go out with you?” / What the curator says

An exhibition of the artist Sorin Tara, organized by H'Art Gallery in the Malmaison space in Bucharest, has aroused controversy on social networks. The commentators expressed their “disgust” to his works with “swastika”, which “urges hatred, violence and extermination,” reports News.ro. Dan Popescu, curator, defended the artist. The community of artists and artists in Malmaison reacted by stating that “it is not directly responsible for the selection or content of the projects presented in the individual galleries”.

“Disgusting and extremely dangerous: anti -Semitic art, delivered by an” artist “accessorized with swastika to opening and urges hatred, violence and extermination. There is no freedom of expression here, it is violence expressed with thirst and without all the walls, ”wrote a user on Facebook.

“Tara von Neudorf (b. 1974) returns with a new corrosive exhibition that puts the world and Romanian history on the infamy and grotesque society. Demitizing discourse is probably the ultimate test of any open society. That you have practiced your freedom of thought until this exercise.

The explanations of the curator: “It is an anarchist trickster who penalizes all ideologies through humor”

With the intriguing title “History at P … empty”, the exhibition “does not refer to the sexual organ, but to unmasking”, explained Dan Popescu, the organizer of the exhibition.

Iulia Bădilaş published on Facebook an opinion on the exhibition and interaction with the artist. “I understand that the man wants to be controversial, but what is the border between” controversial artist “and” Plain Nazi “? (…) Since when did he become acceptable again to go out with the swastika on you and the world to applaud you? ”She asked.

“This exhibition must be forbidden,” several people wrote, requesting that the National Institute for Holocaust Study “Elie Wiesel”, the National Council for Combating Discrimination – CNCD to be notified.

Adina Marincea, researcher at the National Institute for Holocaust Studying in Romania “Elie Wiesel”, wrote in a Facebook post: “Dan Popescu (apparently curator), H'Art Gallery, is ignorance or is intention? “Deviation”, as shown by the inshr-ew report, exposing anti-Semitic paintings a month after October 7. “

“It is not from the drawings of the country this country is going, but from the people who take the sheep after saying a single person, following an intense emotional interaction,” wrote Oana Balaci.

Dan Popescu, the curator of the exhibition, replied: “The country is not a Nazi, he is not a communist, he is not a propagandist. He is an anarchist artistic trickster who penalizes by sarcastic humor all types of ideologies to which people attach themselves with excessive veneration.”

Malmaison: “We delimit the exhibition”

The community of artists and artists from Malmaison has transmitted, in a statement, that “it is not directly responsible for the selection or content of the projects presented in the individual galleries that operate in the Malmaison space. As an artistic community, we clearly delimit the exhibition currently in these spaces”.

“We do not identify with the use of symbols with a problematic historical load, used exclusively to generate controversy or to create the appearance of a provocative approach. We consider this approach as a superficial and lacking, incompatible with a public space that aims to be opened, inclusive and safe for all members of the society. Authentic dialogue, not one who resort to free shock in the absence of real content ”.