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Quadro Gallery
strada Napoca nr. 16

Quadro Gallery is a modern art gallery founded in 2008, in recognition of the fact that the 20th century has bequeathed us a vast and rich regional artistic heritage which is not very well known, exhibited and promoted. Our activity has a regional focus on the art of Transylvania, but we also think of the region in a broader sense: Romania, Eastern and Central Europe, the Eastern Block, etc., acknowledging that there are specific meanings behind all these levels. The study of certain art phenomena allows not only to explore the past, but also to better understand the present, the historical, cultural context, the social, political and economic phenomena in this part of Europe, all of which have effects on the current social environment and art. The gallery has succeeded in coagulating a consistent public and in gathering important collectors around its events, which we consider to be the most important result of our activity, entitling us to believe that the gallery is also a

Titu Toncian. Self-portrait. Experimental photography and film

ARTA CONCEPTUALA


Tip eveniment
DESCHIS si la NAG
Perioada Expozitie
12.09.2025 - 14.11.2025
Artists:
In the restrictive, culturally isolated Romania of the 1970s and ’80s, Titu Toncian discovered freedom through photography and film. Through visual experimentation, he carved out a personal space for reflection and creative expression. Whether it is his graduation project at the ceramics department, his photographic experiments and films from the 1980s, or the ceramic objects and installations created later in his career, the artist managed to turn an approach rooted in intimacy and subjectivity into a political message, that of a silent resistance.