Contemporary art - Sculpture
The sculpture "Deschidere" (Opening) was erected in 1991, by inscribing the names of the 43 people who died and incinerated in the crematorium in Bucharest.
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Born in 1941 in Timișoara, Ingo Glass attended sculpture courses at the Popular School of Art in Lugoj, under the guidance of Elisabeta Popper, an artist who studied in Vienna, from 1954 to 1960. In 1967, he graduated from the Ion Andreescu Institute of Fine Arts in Cluj, in the class of sculptor Artur Vetro.
Ingo Glass is one of the founders of the Visual Arts Museum in Galați in 1967 and later worked at the N. Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts and the Friedrich Schiller Cultural Center in Bucharest until 1979 when he emigrated to Germany and settled in Munich. Ingo Glass is considered a representative of concrete art in sculpture and also had literary activity in the German language. He passed away in Budapest in 2022.
The sculpture "Deschidere" (Opening) was erected in 1991 on Calea Martirilor in Timișoara, illustrating an emblematic moment of the December 1989 Revolution, by inscribing the names of the 43 people who died, whose bodies were stolen on the night of December 18/19, 1989, from the County Hospital and incinerated in the crematorium in Bucharest.
Contemporary art
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Last days of the exhibition The Other Trans-Atlantic. Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America (2018), in which works by Constantin Flondor and the Sigma Group are exhibited alongside over one hundred other works, including kinetic sculptures, paintings, drawings, films and installations, as well as unique archival material.
Broad panorama that connects art from Eastern European countries to Latin American movements. Reflection on the complex understanding of this phenomenon that can be found in distant points of the globe.
The Sigma group’s elastic structure is one of the iconic pieces of the exhibition. My heart leapt with joy to see her enthroned in the showroom…
In the last 5-6 years, the recognition of Timisoara’s art values has grown impressively. Along with the art of artists who emigrated long ago, such as Ingo Glass, the avant-garde works of the 60s-80s were showcased internationally and entered valuable European and trans-Atlantic art collections: the Venice Biennale, Tate Modern London, the Museum Ritter in Germany, Museum ZKM Karlsruhe, MUMOK Vienna... now, here, Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Garage Museum in Moscow, Museum in São Paulo.
And the journey has just begun...
(Excerpt from End days 11(Pseudo)correspondence. 1 January - 1 April 2018, handwritten volume by Sorina Jecza)
