Voices Of the Wind

CRENGUȚA MITROFAN

“Oscillating between Romania and Austria for more than three decades, Crenguța Mitrofan managed to integrate into her personality these two personal geographies, each with its particularities, in a balanced way. However, recently, she came to realize that only home can one really listen to the ‘voices of the wind’. Then, she came across this idea elaborated on the radio, within a broadcast on Novalis, one of the most representative thinkers of German Romantism and understood how universal this subtle and complex poetic image is, which, although it implies a certain dynamics and mechanics of the movement, it actually consists of an expression of the time staying still, an invitation to stay in the present moment. Through the modality in which the works by Crenguța Mitrofan are displayed, the exhibition points out to the way the sound of the wind can be perceived. This, like other apparently ordinary sounds such as the squawk of the seagulls or crows, that of the waves crashing against the shore, or the swish of the leaves, often brings a melancholic, nostalgic, bitter-sweet feeling, prolific expressed in poetry, philosophy and many other artistic fields.” (Ana Daniela Sultana)

Crenguța Mitrofan is a visual artist born in Piatra Neamț, Romania. For more than 30 years she has been living in Austria, where she studied painting with prominent artists such as Ludwig Attersee and Edgar Tezak. She is active as an art educator, and at the same time she is exhibiting both in Romania and Austria.

Ana Daniela Sultana is a curator and columnist, a graduate from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her articles appear in ARTA magazine, Romanian-Italian Cultural Horizons and on agentiadecarte.ro. She collaborates with cultural institutes, museums, art centers, and with various contemporary art galleries.