3rd of April 2025 was a full day of events at Renaissance Art Gallery for the launch of RENAISSANCE Magnolia scarf by Maria Costake in order to celebrate 18 years of my daughters birthday and 18 years since the Magnolia Tree was planted in the garden of our former home, now the Renaissance Art Gallery Romania located in a suburb of Bucharest – Pipera Voluntari, an ex pat and romanian community build around a few reputable international schools and the Baneasa Forest.
We celebrated also the ending of Maria Costake solo botanical art exhibition ‘Femininity Garden- a Renaissance Garden’ which had its opening last year in June 2024 !
Both of our two events organized at Renaissance Art Gallery on the occasion of the launch of the second RENAISSANCE scarf by Maria Costake, the Magnolia RENAISSANCE Silk scarf were a success.
Thank you for all my friends and clients who made time in their schedule to attend and also who gave their energy to BE there and immerse fully into the event!
I have felt your good energy throughout the day!
We had 2 events at the gallery:
* between 11am to 3pm we had RENAISSANCE magnolia scarf by Maria Costake launch and magnolia collective painting under the guidance of Iulia Toader Artist , Art Curator , Dr. Architect, Designer & founder of JUXTAFOUNDATION – an art dedicated foundation !
All the ladies emerged into the collective painting of my beloved magnolia tree planted 18 years ago by family friends for the occasion of my daughter Ana -Maria christening!
The final touch was given by another renowned artist Oana Cirjoi.
* from 6pm to 10pm we had our closing reception of the Maria Costake botanical art exhibition ‘Femininity Garden-a Renaissance Garden’ and an amazing IKEBANA Sogetsu demonstration by Andreea Georgescu from Sogetsu school of #ikebana #sogetsuikebana !
The demonstration consisted of 3 arrangements and was accompanied by amazing stories told by both Andreea Georgescu and her husband Șerban Georgescu- the Director of Japanese studies center at Universitatea Româno-Americană in Bucharest, Romania.
The 3 arrangements were made in 3 different vases ( 2 ceramics and one tsubo) and Mr. Georgescu mentioned the importance of the vase for the succes of an #ikebana and that at the MNAR Muzeul National de Arta opening of Asian pavilion Andreea used for an ikebana demonstration a vase borrowed for the event from the renowned romanian ceramic artist Sandra Berghianu.
Andreea Georgescu, is an ikebana artist and certified teacher of the Sogetsu School in Japan and is the coordinator of Romania’s first Sogetsu Study Group in Romania and offers ikebana courses every Wednesday evening from 18:30- 20:00 face-to-face at the the Centrul de Studii Romano-Japoneze Angela Hondru Center for Romanian-Japanese Studies (CSRJ-AH) – part of the Department of Asian Studies of the Romanian-American University, room 322.
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The surprise of the day was Mihai Dumitru – Flair Bartender, @fly_mihai on Instagram, who spend the entire day with us preparing artistic coffee and tasty floral tea during the morning session and amazing nonalcholic cocktails in the evening! All drinks had the magnolia image on them !
Also my friend Steluța Florentina Stanciu, one of my spiritual guides prepared her signature vegan foods sandwitches and sweets! And she also painted during our collective painting session !
We offered as present a natural soy candle with magnolia scent by Little Paris Atelier especially created for this project, to the ones who bought original art part of Maria Costake solo botanicalart exhibition ‘Femininity Garden- a Renaissance Garden”
For the ones who bought silk scarves over RON 1,000.00 we offered an amazing desk calendar that has images of Maria Costake art and scarves and beautiful quotes of Sas Maria @sas_maria_ ( Instagram)- part of her @energysoulkisses ( Instagram) – her new project that will be launched at Renaissance Art Gallery Voluntari România on 8th of May 2025!
A special thank you to our shooting photographer Sabina Gendron, who was able to accommodate our tight schedule due to the short period of time when the magnolia is in bloom (www.sabinagendron.com)
Thank you to our event photographer Mihai Constantineanu !
Looking back I realize that me, Oana Visoiu- Renaissance Art Gallery- and Maria Costake, created so many amazing things and moments together in one year :
* 1 exhibition of original amazing works in watercolor on paper of botanical art :
Please click here to SHOP original botanical artworks by Maria Costake
* 8 botanical art painting workshops, out of which 2 with magnolia starting with magnolia exactly one year ago
Maria Costake workshops of botanical art at Renaissance Art Gallery
* 2 amazing silk scarves by Maria Costake branded RENAISSANCE:
– one with tuberoses launched in autumn of 2024 ( part of flower and jewelry collection – the jewelry was created especially by my friend and creator of SHIR jewelry brand Shirley Navone- a blend of citrine and diamonds , who created a RENAISSANCE jewelry line especially for this project )
– one with magnolia , part of flower collection – a celebration of spring and 18 years of life of both the magnolia & Oana Vișoiu’s daughter, Ana Maria