We are pleased to invite you to Petite Histoire book launch: Wednesday, the 10th of February 2010 at 19:00, Galeria Posibila's latest publication.

authors - Matei Caltia, Eugen Alexandru Gustea, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Magda Radu, Oana Tanase

texts by - Magda Radu, Oana Tanase

graphic design by - Eugen Alexandru Gustea, Nicu Ilfoveanu

This book was published with the support of Administration of the National Found - AFCN

"Educated in a country that can hardly boast of traditon when it comes to photography, we felt the need of predecessors. Somehow we had in mind a description by Borges of the similitudes existing between Kafka’s stories, written at the turn of the XX th century and Hawthorne’s, dating from the debut of the XIX th century, which makes the latter a precursor of Kafka, to whom he actually owes being discovered and reinterpreted. (...) we aimed at spelling out a visual and conceptual discourse on the photography medium memory, on what the photographed image is able to convey when its author, subject, motivation and context have faded away with the passing time. Paradoxically, the long silent interval lying between the instant when the camera shot and the present one, when we behold these images taken out of context, manages to bestow upon them unexpected purpose and depth, despite the loss of their original contents and initial significance."

Short Introduction, Nicu Ilfoveanu & Eugen Alexandru Gustea

Nicu Ilfoveanu, Iosif Kiraly and Dragos Lumpan are the winners of the European Central Bank Photography Award, which this year was organized in close collaboration with the Romanian National Bank. On this occasion the Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art has organized an exhibition featuring the works of the 10 finalists, which is open to the public until the 28th of February 2010. 

The European Central Bank has presented its Annual Photography Award every year since 2004. After last year’s competition, which, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the ECB, was open to all 27 Member States, as well as the previous competitions, which  focused on the Member State featured in the respective year’s Cultural Days of the ECB, attention has now turned to Romania.