​Parteneri: Workspace Studio, Inkad, asociația Lucian Țăran

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A big question mark is placed on a poster of the personal exhibition of sculptor Lucian Țăran which will take place starting from November 5, 2025, at Galateea Gallery on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest. The symbol of interrogation opens up possible introspections on a personal and social level in search of a saving answer to the contemporary human consciousness. The question is whether man is still human, whether this society in continuous transformation manages to save people or leads them to self-destruction, due to the development of science and technology that raises the level of danger in the case of conflicts based on mercantile and egocentric motives of economic and territorial supremacy. In light of these challenges, it is good to remind that in human nature there is love, peace and compassion.
Iulian Vîrtopeanu

Sculptor –ceramist Lucian Țăran”s work “?” strips away everything unnecessary.
Sixty ceramic children. That’s it. No explanations needed. They multiply in your head because that’s what real numbers do. They don’t stay put. Sixty becomes six thousand becomes something you can no longer count. And in this progression reveals the truth our times have chosen to ignore: that each ceramic form represents not a statistic, but a life- a sacred one.
​You look at these small forms and something burns. This burning is essential. If it doesn’t burn, it doesn’t work. Because in this burning we recognize the fire from which the ceramic was born- the same temperature of 1150 degrees that transformed clay into permanent witness.
The artist didn’t want us to feel comfortable. Comfort kills art. The artist wanted to wake us up. In this awakening we find art’s highest purpose: not to decorate our comfortable lives, but to make us see what we have chosen not to see.
Each ceramic child carries weight. Not physical weight, but emotional weight. The weight of what we have lost. What we keep losing. What we pretend not to see. Because the clay from which they are made reminds us what we truly are- fragile, malleable, mortal.
The question is right there: “Are we still allowed to be human?” It hits you or it doesn’t. If it hits you, you’ll know the answer too.
In the silence surrounding these small witnesses, alongside Țăran, we don’t ask for peace. We demand it.

The exhibition will run from November 5 to December 16, 2025.

Curator: Iulian Vîrtopeanu

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