<h1>Tudor BANUS</h1><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><div class="tab"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <button class="tablinks" onclick="openCity(event, 'BIOGRAPHIE')" id="defaultOpen">BIOGRAPHIE</button><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <button class="tablinks" onclick="openCity(event, 'Quelques oeuvres')">SELECTION D'OEUVRES</button><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <button class="tablinks" onclick="openCity(event, 'CE QU’ILS EN ONT DIT...')">CE QU’ILS EN ONT DIT...</button><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --> <button class="tablinks" onclick="openCity(event, 'VIDEO')">VIDEO</button><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><button class="tablinks" onclick="openCity(event, 'PRESS')">PRESS</button><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></div><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><div id="BIOGRAPHIE" class="tabcontent"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><h2>BIOGRAPHIE</h2><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><h3>Tudor Banuș - The artistic pathway</h3><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>About the significant encounters</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>I strongly believe there are a number of essential encounters in our<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->lives and I also believe that my encounter with Tudor Banuș was and<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->remains a significant one.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>I met Tudor Banuș in Paris, during my student years. Later, I obtained a<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->scholarship in France and that was the moment when Tudor Banuș<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->offered me, with trust and friendship, the chance of having an<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->internship in his studio. I had the opportunity for a whole summer to<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->have contact with all the existent works of the artist in Nogent-sur-<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Marne studio (including also magazines, publications, books, critical<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->texts etc.)</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Seven years later, this idea appeared in this National Project of<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Tudor Banuș Retrospective in Romania.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>The first part of this project is the exhibition, Encounter in printed<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->pages, (Tudor Banuș- Honoré Daumier) in The National Art Museum of<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Romania; in this exhibition, the work of Tudor Banuș will be revealed<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->with the works of Honoré Daumier.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Important stages of Tudor Banu's work will be exhibited in the<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Museum of Art in Timisoara, Cluj and afterwards in the Palace of<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Culture in Lasi.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>The exhibition of the Museum of National Art in Romania marks an<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->anniversary moment, as it will be opened a few days before the artist's<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->birthday.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Tudor Banuș was born on the 8th of July 1947 in Bucharest, Romania<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->and is the son of Maria Banuș (the well known writer and poet). At the<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->age of 14, the same age as his mother had been when she made her<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->debut in Tudor Arghezi's magazine Parrot Tickets, Tudor Banuș will<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->make his artistic debut in the satirical magazine Urzica (1961).<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->In his artistic parents library he was fascinated by the perfection of<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->engravings from the Middle Ages. During his teens he often visited the<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->studio of the artist Rudolf-Schweitzer Cumpana, whom he considers<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->his artistic mentor.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Tudor Banuș obtained a BA in Architecture at the Architecture and<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Urbanism Institute in Bucharest (1971). One year later, he settled in<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->France where initially he worked as an architect. Parallel to this,he<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->studied techniques of oil painting and engraving at the Ecole<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Superieure de Beaux Arts in Paris.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Starting in 1976, he started collaborating with one of the most<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->important publications in the world: Le Monde (for more than 30<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->years), and also L'Express, Le Point, Le Figaro, Die Zeit, The New York<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Times and The New York Magazine.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>During his productive career as a painter and grafician, Tudor Banuș<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->had approximately 70 solo shows in Paris, Bruxelles, London,<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Munchen, Hamburg, Wien, Dusseldorf, Nurenberg, Geneva, Basel,<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->New York; he illustrated 30 books such as Jules Verne, Brothers<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Grimm, Thomas Jefferson, Doris Lessing, Mircea Cartarescu,<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Seban Foarta etc.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>He received in France, in 1979, the award for the most beautiful<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->illustrated book The Musicians of Bremen (Brothers Grimm).<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->In 2004, the Ministry of Culture awarded Tudor Banuș the National<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Prize for illustrating the book The Encyclopedia of Dragons, by<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->Mircea Cărtărescu.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Tudor Banuş's work can be defined as an architecture of humanity, a<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->construction in which the artist operates from several perspectives,<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->assuming several roles: the artist is a fine psychologist (and by a deep<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->analysis of the unconscious of the characters who inhabit his canvases,<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->offers a wide range of experiences ).The essence of Tudor Banuş's work<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->focuses in revealing the tensions and anguish of the contemporary<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->world.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>Assuming the role of a "sociologist" generates an analysis of the<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->various layers of the society in which we live: the economical and<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->political crises we are facing are a reflection of the inner crises. The<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->long transition periods lead to additional adaptation efforts in a<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->society based on consuming, in which power ratios (rather than value<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->ones) become predominant.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><p>The essence of Tudor Banuş's work comes ,paradoxically, from the<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->association of a harsh reality, reflected with his inner exuberance and<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->his borderless imagination, with the ludic spirit and fantasy. Even if on<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->one hand he creates apocalyptic contexts that do not seem to predict<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->something good, on the other hand he also offers a kind of optimism<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->with the humorous notes that appear in many of his drawings or<!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->paintings.</p><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --></div><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] --><div id="Quelques oeuvres" class="tabcontent"><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->
