The Interart TRIADE Foundation was founded in 2000
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The Interart TRIADE Foundation was founded in 2000, with sculptor Peter JECZA, a prominent figure in the artistic life of Banat/Romania, Sorina Jecza Ianovici, and Marcel Tolcea as its founding members.
The foundation continues, in an institutional form, the family's efforts to coagulate other forms of expression around the art of sculpture and create a space for artistic intercommunication. In this way, an older tradition of "artists' houses," true cultural nuclei, is revitalized. This characteristic has marked the structure of the activities initiated by the foundation, preserving its personalized familial character, interest in sculpture, and inter-artistic communication value.
The Interart TRIADE Foundation has structured its activities flexibly, into several programs, each program conducting several specific projects, depending on the program's weight within the institution. In turn, the weight of programs can be modified, shaped by the structure of concrete situations.
The first distinction to be noted is related to the "institutional" character of the Jecza Museum. The commonly recognized meaning is not covered by its reality. The Jecza Museum is a different kind of museum, as it is not just an institutional space but a living one, animated by the aspirations of those who inhabit it and who preserve the dreams of those who no longer inhabit it. It is a place born out of love - shared, imparted... It is a house that bears the imprint of the individuality of the one who first dreamed of it.
Peter Jecza, being a sculptor, had many works, volumes - "his children", as he liked to say - three-dimensional objects that required space. He built a house that was made to their measure. However, when it became like this, it was not justified to remain destined only for the three people who lived in it, and thus, around it, at first only friends, acquaintances, art lovers gathered, then strangers, a community that kept coming together over time around this nucleus that art constituted, people who felt the need to receive the nourishment that art offered. And they received it constantly. It has been twenty years since Casa Jecza has been open to all those who cross its threshold.
What is beautiful, however, is that Casa Jecza has remained, all this time, a space with a soul, not necessarily the art museum as it is officially defined - a cold institution supported by functions. Casa Jecza is still a lived-in space, alive, vibrant, animated, revealing its soul, as only a house can do. And those who have remained in the house are those who continue to give. It sounds quite idealized, but that's how it is: beyond any pragmatism, any concept of efficiency, an ideal must remain. As long as this manages to preserve its constructive force, the rest somehow comes. Harder, easier, but it comes. "Like the stars in the sky"... as its builder, Peter Jecza, would say.
Casa Jecza has successively acquired different forms and functions, growing organically to respond to the needs it has perceived. It has become the space of the Triade Foundation, a gallery, an art center, a publishing house... After Peter Jecza's death in 2009, the project of preserving the memorial trace of the founder has gradually taken shape, to get to what we call today - the Jecza Museum.
Triade Foundation/Jecza Museum - about Sigma Group
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"Where does the name of the foundation come from? The ancients said Nomen omen, identifying, written in the names of people, their destiny. It is no different for the foundation, "a dreaming institution", a structure formed from the energy, passion and dreams of some friends who gave this energy, passion and dreams to others.
The story begins sometime at the end of the last millennium, in 1999. Peter created the letters that made up the name of the city's art gallery, like some sculptural objects. Now he had recovered them. One evening, in a group of friends, we "played", combining the letters we had at our disposal. The ART GALLERY included a limited inventory of possibilities. I tried them all. A game. It's a game... At the end, I compared everyone's proposals. The "scholar", Pia, won, as many other times: TRIADE. It seemed to fit our reality: Peter had practiced a cycle of works called monads. From the Monads of the 70s, the double Monads, the Dyads, were developed, works that contradicted the principle of absolute internal coherence, allowing for splitting, division. These creations opened the possibility of assimilating triads, as successive forms. Thus, the name of the foundation had been found: Triade. And TRIADE it remained. The references were so open that they could cover everything: there were three of us - Andrei was already a "person", the number three also suggested otherness, it also referred to spiritual values, to the Trinity. This name fixed the destiny of the foundation, as a space open to others.
TRIADE embraces us beyond time: me, Peter, Andrei. It remains."
Sorina Jecza, 2023
