Nasui collection & gallery, an independent organization promoting artists who work in contemporary visual arts: painting, sculpture, photography, performance, research and innovation, has launched a new programme, ”Moving Monuments”.
The programme aims to product, present and travel big scale artworks within prestigious and courageous contemporary spaces in the world.
The first project of the programme, ”Middle Way”, is presented within Independents Liverpool Biennial 2014 – Bogdan Rata, The Middle Way. The sculpture travels in 2016 in Baia Mare, Romania, short-listed candidate city for the title of European Capital of Culture 2021 and in 2017 in Cascais Lisabona, the city of the exiled kings of the 20th century. In 2018 it travelled to Porto and several cities in Ukraine: Kyiv, Dnipro, Mikolaiv,
A second component of the programme, ”Moving Monuments: Memorials of Anti-Communist Resistance”, deals with monumental sculptures moving in former communist detention spaces or in spaces commemorating anti-communist resistance events. The artists Cătălin Bădărău, Bogdan Rața and Aurel Vlad are proposing sculptural installations for Memorialul Inchisoarea Pitesti, Inchisoarea Tăcerii Râmnicu Sărat and the anti-communist rebellion in Brasov 1987.
Another component of the programme, “Moving Monuments: Lost Heritage“, focuses on recreating and temporarily placing contemporary monumental sculptures in spaces where historical monuments have disappeared. This initiative, successfully implemented in Brașov in 2018, promotes the disappeared historical heritage through production and placement of temporary large-scale sculptures in public spaces.
Another component, “Moving Monuments: The Barbarian” by artist Alexandru Rădvan, was presented in 2018 at the French Institute in Bucharest during NAG, exploring themes of cultural identity and historical perception through contemporary sculptural intervention.
A special project of the programme was the work of Bogdan Rața “View from Light” which was exhibited in the European Parliament in Brussels in May 2018, demonstrating how contemporary Romanian art engages with themes of anti-communist resistance and historical memory within the institutional framework of European democracy.