The group exhibition “Past, Present and Future” represents for Oana Visoiu Cutucache, owner of the Renaissance Art Gallery and for the first time CURATOR of a VISUAL art project, a new beginning because it coincides with the launch of a new concept R Art Space by Renaissance Art Gallery – a project that wants to bring to the public’s attention how a SPACE can become from something PAST (and here we can play with words and past can mean outdated/dusty/no future) into something PRESENT and which can become a FUTURE.

The painting collection suggestively titled “Late Flowers” – LATE FLOWERS by the artist Iulia Toader exhibited in October 2024 on the ground floor of the Sky Tower office building in Bucharest Calea Floreasca, had its OPENING on October 15, 2024. This autumn, after a hot summer when, due to unusual heat the nature died as it usually dies in the winter, in autumn after the most awaited rain the nature greened and blossomed as if spring had come.

As the month of October is the breast cancer awareness month, both I, Oana Visoiu, Gallery owner of Renaissance Art Gallery and the artist, Iulia Toader, wanted to show through art the wonder of the last flowers that have the courage to bloom in autumn, in October or even November, which continue to intrigue us but also to rejoice, showing that even after a fight against drought or against a merciless disease like cancer, there was also the “blooming” of nature, of women. Flowers with no chance to bear fruit, but which exist desperately only to give one more moment of beauty to the world.

Change – another name for time.

Late flowers warn us that change, no matter how drastic or scary, must not disturb the blossoming of the heart.

The special guest at the opening of the exhibition was also the botanical artist and designer of silk scarves with floral images Maria Costake, who wrapped the participating ladies in soft silk.

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The name of the exhibition MAYDAY has several meanings given by the ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MAYDAY: Phonetic spelling of French m’aidez = help me. * zi de Mai – May Day * MayDay … MayDay … MayDay Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice procedure radio communications. It is used to signal a life-threatening threat primarily by sailors and airmen. The call is always given three times in a row to prevent it from being confused with a similar sounding phrase in noisy conditions and to distinguish a current call from a message about a Mayday call.

Iulia Toader’s “MayDay” exhibition, however, is not a cry for help, as it would lead us to believe due to its title, which signifies the distress signal sent by sailors “mayday” repeated 3 times, on the contrary, the exhibition, which was opened in May 2023, brings together works that show art as an escape and a remedy. Transforming your deepest emotions into images of art is a way to cope with a ruthless reality, or a way to embellish that same reality with unexpected layers of meaning. The artist Iulia Toader conceived this exhibition during a difficult period in her life and art was her ‘salvation’! 

The exhibition had its Vernissage in the beautiful afternoon of May 16, 2023 at the Mihai Eminescu Cultural Center in Bucharest, followed by a coffee presentation in the morning of May 22, 2023.

Then on a foggy November morning (November 17, 2023) at the new headquarters of the Renaissance Art Gallery in Pipera where the exhibition was moved from the Eminescu Cultural Center, there was a morning of stories with the artist Iulia Toader, who spoke to us how she came to paint her exhibition MAYDAY – Salvarea, where the title of the exhibition comes from and why she painted so many flowers, although until the summer of 2023 she refuses to consider flowers a “subject” of her paintings. We also gathered to celebrate the acquisition of the Doctor of Architecture title of arch. Iulia Toader, but also to listen in detail to the story of the work EFIGIA – made to order for the Domeniile Blaga vineyard that belongs to Oana Blaga and her husband.

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