DREAMSCAPES: CICIREAN COLLECTION

DREAMSCAPES
CICIREAN COLLECTION
05.12.2025 – 07.01.2026

Opening: Friday, December 5, 6:00 PM
Venue: Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University of Brașov
B-dul Eroilor 29

Mircea Cantor, Cristina Chirilă, Horia Damian, Andrei Gamarț, Ion Grigorescu, Gili Mocanu, Sultana Maitec, Laurian Popa, Radu Pandele, Lea Rasovszky, Roman Tolici, Ecaterina Vrana.

Dreamscapes presents a selection from the Cicirean Collection, offering a visual map of the artistic practices of recent decades, articulated through the personal gesture of collecting. Bringing together works by twelve artists, created between 1972 and 2024, the exhibition opens a space where reality subtly overlaps with the mythology of dreams. Between individual memory and collective vision, autobiographical reference and recent art history, the Cicirean Collection functions as a living archive in constant evolution and transformation. Each work represents both a subjective choice—born of the intimate act of collecting—and an objective tracing of the developments within the post-2000 Romanian art scene.

The exhibition brings together works by Mircea Cantor, Cristina Chirilă, Horia Damian, Andrei Gamarț, Ion Grigorescu, Gili Mocanu, Sultana Maitec, Laurian Popa, Radu Pandele, Lea Rasovszky, Roman Tolici, and Ecaterina Vrana. Each piece unfolds as a fragment of a dream, suspended between reality and projection, while the exhibition display outlines a nonlinear narrative—an unpredictable journey through alternating registers of abstraction and figuration, geometry and gesture.

Avi Cicirean’s connection to art began in childhood, shaped by the artistic environment in which he grew up and by the paintings and sculptures of his grandfather, a universe that gave form to his first visual landmarks. Over the past fourteen years, that early familiarity has evolved into a coherent pursuit of contemporary art, in which the encounter with artworks becomes both an act of discovery and a means of self-definition. Presenting the collection in a public exhibition thus becomes a gesture of self-revelation, transforming the private experience of the collector into a shared space.