ION ȚUCULESCU, THE AMATEUR GENIUS

“’The Țuculescu case’ is unique in Romanian art. Ion Țuculescu was a renowned scientist and, at the same time, the most innovative and influential post-war painter. How was this possible? The present exhibition catalogue offers a map of the wonderful intertwining of scientific practice with the artistic imagination. The emergence of Țuculescu is connected to the unprecedented cultural effervescence of the interwar period, which made it possible for Mircea Eliade to be a prominent historian of religions and a formidable novelist, Lucian Blaga a major philosopher and a first-rate poet, or Dan Barbilian to be a leading mathematician, doubled by the symbolist poet Ion Barbu.” (Erwin Kessler)