The artist and drama writer OANA MARIA CAJAL returned to the SENSO Gallery with a new and extraordinary personal exhibition of New Medi Art entitled “SHAKESPEARE AD INFINITUM”, following the success of her personal painting and Picto-Impulses “JUST IMAGINE” that took place in autumn 2015.
The opening of “SHAKESPEARE AD INFINITUM” Exhibition by Oana Maria Cajal was part of the official program of events at the“Shakespeare in Romania, Shakespeare in the World – Shakespeare in Romania, Shakespeare in the World” International Symposium (April 12th – 14th, 2016). Another novelty of this type of events in Romania was that the exhibition was presented simultaneously in two different cities: Bucharest (SENSO Gallery) and Craiova (“Marin Sorescu” National Theatre).
Among the participants who honoured the event with their presence are great personalities of the cultural elite in Romania, representatives of the Diplomatic Corps, as well as renowned Shakespeare specialist from all over the world: Vlad Alexandrescu, Minister of Culture, E.S. Paul Brummel, Ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in Bucharest and Northern Ireland in Romania, Emil Boroghina, Founder and Director of Shakespeare International Festival – Craiova, Academician Eugen Simion, Academician Razvan Teodorescu, Ion Cristescu, Director of Museum of Romanian Literature, Ion Caramitru, actor, president of UNITER and director of Bucharest National Theatre, Radu Boroianu, President of the Romanian Cultural Institute, George Volceanov, translator and Shakespeare specialist, Prof. PhD Stanley William Wells, Honorary President of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Emeritus Professor at Birmingham University and General Editor of The Oxford and Penguin Shakespeare, Paul Edmonson PhD, Head of Learning and Research at Shakespeare Institute, George Banu, David Esri, Michael Dobson, Rick St.Peter, Jacek Fabiszak, Alexandra Sakowskas.a
“What defines the event of my exhibition SHAKESPEARE AD INFINITUM “- the artist said, is the urgency of the message I want to convey. It is actually Shakespeare’s message to us, born over the centuries, disturbingly present and clairvoyant. <It is required you do awake your fate! – You have to animate your faith now!>>.> In terms of stylistics, my intimate, mysterious resonance with the universality of the great Shakespearean themes, seeks its visual expression in graphic happenings and emblematic metamorphoses animated in the area of an explosive theatricality, triggered by the encounter between collective memory and the present of a humanity in the crisis. I call the works, created in a novel deviation of the New Media Art assembly, the <Picto Impulses>, and George Banu, essayist and university professors, calls them, in great inspiration, < Shakespearian Dreams >”.
The well-known playwriter, awarded for playwriting by UNITER, Oana Maria Cajal , has become a well-known and appreciated plastic artist lately. After many theatre plays have been staged on the American continent and she created movie scripts in Montréal, where she has been living for more than 20 years, she has turned her attention to painting and drawing, counting numerous exhibitions and releases of novel art albums.
This event was conducted with the support of Catena Group, through Catena for Art Program, and the Fildas Art Foundation.
