Paintings-Metaphors, signed by Teodor Botis

During the period May 22nd and July 10th, 2014, Senso Gallery hosted the personal exhibition of the artist from Cluj, Teodor Botis.

The opening was attended by important figures from Romanian diplomacy, art and culture, journalists, television and radio people, art critics, and let us mention here Mr. Acad. Ionel Haiduc, Ambassador Tatiana Isticioaia Budura, Mr. Vasile Tolan – Vice President of UAP Romania, art critics Virgil Mocanu and Mircea Deac, artists Cela Neamtu, Maria Mihalache Blendea, Gheorghe Gogescu, Gabriela Culic, Corneliu Vasilescu, Aurel Contras, Vasile Jimboreanu, Octavian Ursulescu, Ion Marin, Octavian Andronic, Marilena Stoian, Marina Roman, Maria Andrei and many others.

The opening speech of the exhibition was delivered by the art critics Virgil Mocanu and Mircea Deac.

“I see that he has not changed over the past 40 years, his valiantly of being himself,  of triumphing with his art is, I might say,

extraordinary, we love the composition, the way to distributing light, we like the originality, the boldness. His exhibition features a significant painting, the Gate of Mysteries, nothing resembles something we known, everything is new, imagined, everything comes deep within his innermost, from his subconscious or even from an instinctual state”. – Mircea Deac.

“A painting, as you can see, solar, full of energy, I think is the cosmic, quiet, silent, but perpetual movement that Marin Sorescu talked about discovering in the painting of Teodor Botis”. – Virgil Mocanu.

This event was conducted with the support of Catena Group, through Catena for Art Program, and the Fildas Art Foundation.