„The ascetic must sharpen his will he understood that people have one and the same nature therefore, because some do not pray at all, he stays in prayer all the time; because others eat and drink to excess, he fasts; because the lust of the flesh is to many spring of poison, he humbly keeps himself in perfect chastity.Therefore I can only bow before the pillar who sits motionless on his stele...”
Quotes extracted from Hippolyte Delehaye - The Pillar Saints – 1923
These words written in 1923 are just as relevant in 2026 (more than a century later). Why? Because they are the armature of European society, its foundation and basis... the walls have been destroyed, exploded, rebuilt, recomposed, but the base, the Christian religion, has remained, on which, each time, European society has been reborn.
At Galateea Gallery (11.02 – 10.03.2026), Otilia Efros, visual artist, graduate of the Master's Degree in Sculpture\Ceramics at the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University, Timișoara, invites us to the exhibition "Pillars" to reveal this stable base from which the designers of European society can begin to rebuild...
Iulian Virtopeanu
The installation “Stylite” revisits the figure of the vertical ascetic as a threshold-form of existence: a body withdrawn from the world, elevated on a column, suspended between earth and sky. Rather than depicting canonical saints, the work proposes a typology of chosen isolation—resistance through stillness and a corporeality eroded by time, belief, and matter.
Otilia Efros
The exhibition will run from February 11 to March 10, 2026.
Curator: Iulian Virtopeanu
Partners: Workspace Studio, Inkad
Media Partners: Modernism.ro, Revista Arta, Intell News, Leviathan, ArtLine, Amos News, Agenția de Carte, Propagarta, Empower Artists, Piața de Artă, Radio România Cultural, Radio România Internațional, Zile și Nopți, Top Business
Quotes extracted from Hippolyte Delehaye - The Pillar Saints – 1923
These words written in 1923 are just as relevant in 2026 (more than a century later). Why? Because they are the armature of European society, its foundation and basis... the walls have been destroyed, exploded, rebuilt, recomposed, but the base, the Christian religion, has remained, on which, each time, European society has been reborn.
At Galateea Gallery (11.02 – 10.03.2026), Otilia Efros, visual artist, graduate of the Master's Degree in Sculpture\Ceramics at the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University, Timișoara, invites us to the exhibition "Pillars" to reveal this stable base from which the designers of European society can begin to rebuild...
Iulian Virtopeanu
The installation “Stylite” revisits the figure of the vertical ascetic as a threshold-form of existence: a body withdrawn from the world, elevated on a column, suspended between earth and sky. Rather than depicting canonical saints, the work proposes a typology of chosen isolation—resistance through stillness and a corporeality eroded by time, belief, and matter.
Otilia Efros
The exhibition will run from February 11 to March 10, 2026.
Curator: Iulian Virtopeanu
Partners: Workspace Studio, Inkad
Media Partners: Modernism.ro, Revista Arta, Intell News, Leviathan, ArtLine, Amos News, Agenția de Carte, Propagarta, Empower Artists, Piața de Artă, Radio România Cultural, Radio România Internațional, Zile și Nopți, Top Business
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