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Sorin Costina Art Private Collection

Sorin Costina Art Collection

Sorin Costina’s private collection is illustrative of the visual art that evaded the official aesthetic canons of the communist regime in Romania. The collection is all the more valuable as the artists represented in it, who were marginal in the last two decades of communism, when ideological control became stricter and stricter, received due recognition both nationally and internationally after 1989.

Location

Languages

  • Romanian

Name of collection

  • Sorin Costina Art Collection

Provenance and cultural activities

Description of content

Content

  • applied arts objects (folk art, decorative arts, etc.): 100-499
  • graphics: 500-999
  • paintings: 100-499

Operator(s)

Owner(s)

Geographical scope of recent operation

  • national

Founder(s)

Date of founding

  • 1969

Place of founding

Creator(s) of content

Collector(s)

Access type

  • visits by appointments

Publications

  • Kessler, Erwin. 2017. Sorin Costina: Ucenicie printre arte (Sorin Costina: Apprenticeship among arts). Bucharest: Vellant.

Author(s) of this page

  • Petrescu, Cristina
  • Pătrăşconiu, Cristian Valeriu

References

Bernea, Horia. 2001. “Câteva gânduri despre muzeu, cantități, materialitate și încrucișare” (A few thoughts about the museum, quantities, materiality, and entanglement). Muzeul Ţăranului Român. Accessed October 13, 2018. http://www.muzeultaranuluiroman.ro/horia-bernea/cateva-ganduri-despre-muzeu-cantitati-materialitate-si-incrucisare-en.html
Kessler, Erwin. 2017. Sorin Costina: Ucenicie printre arte (Sorin Costina: Apprenticeship among arts). Bucharest: Vellant.
Nouril, Ksenia. Ion Grigorescu. MOMA. Accessed October 13. https://www.moma.org/artists/39193
Popa Buluc, Magdalena. 2011. Pictorul Horia Bernea: “Am simţit că trebuie să mărturisesc prin credinţă, turle, cruce, pin prapori şi lumină” (I felt that I had to confess by faith, towers, cross, church banners and light). Cotidianul, October 21. Accessed October 13, 2018. https://www.cotidianul.ro/pictorul-horia-bernea-am-simtit-ca-trebuie-sa-marturisesc-prin-credinta-turle-cruce-pin-prapori-si-lumina-si-sculptorul-ion-irimescu-timpul-aluneca-in-clepsidra/
Popescu, Diana. 2017. “Antivedetă, antisistem: Interviu-document cu cel mai important plastician român al ultimei jumătăți de secol – Ion Grigorescu” (Anti-stardom, anti-system: Interview with the most important visual artist of the last half century – Ion Grigorescu). Digi24, September 30. Accessed October 14, 2018. https://www.digi24.ro/magazin/timp-liber/cultura/antivedeta-antisistem-interviu-document-cu-cel-mai-important-plastician-roman-al-ultimei-jumatati-de-secol-799193
Popica, Radu. 2013. “Şcoala de la Poiana Mărului – o experienţă fundamentală a picturii româneşti postbelice” (The Poiana Mărului school – a fundamental experience of postwar Romanian painting). Muzeul de Artă Brașov. Accessed October 13, 2018. http://www.muzeulartabv.ro/Expozitii_Temporare/2014-2011/Expozitia_Scoala_de_la_Poiana_Marului___31_mai_-_21_iulie_2013
Radu, Magda. “Art and Politics: Considering some of Ion Grigorescu’s Films and Photographs.” Accessed October 14, 2018. http://www.2020.ro/resources/files/ArtandPolitics.pdf
Romoșan, Petru. 2000. “La plecarea lui Horia Bernea” (On Horia Bernea’s passing). Formula AS 443. Accessed October 13, 2018. http://www.formula-as.ro/2000/443/cultura-9/cultura-1908
Rosetti, Andrei and Grigore Roibu, 2011. “Colecţia de artă al lui Sorin Costina” (Sorin Costina’s art collection).  Artavizuala21, May 27. https://artavizuala21.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/povestea-colectiei-de-arta-al-lui-sorin-costina/

Costina, Sorin, interview by Pătrăşconiu, Cristian Valeriu , August 10, 2018. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

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