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LucreŃia OLTEANU: Images from the Romanian Gulag - Radu Bercea
Ever since 1964, he has participated in group or personal exhibitions (more than 200!)
in Romania and abroad. He has displayed graphic and painting works in numerous towns
of Romania: Gura Humorului, Suceava, Iaşi, Bucharest, Târgu Mureş, Reghin, ConstanŃa,
Mamaia, Costineşti, Piteşti, Petroşani, Făgăraş etc. He has obtained numerous prizes in
the national and international caricature saloons.
Since 1986, he has benefited from numerous international participations: Japan, Italy,
Turkey, Yugoslavia, Poland, Belgium, France, Brasilia, Mexico, Israel, Bulgaria etc.
He has displayed his works in France, at the Cultural Centre from Port Marly, at Visinet
Theatre from Paris, at the Economic House from Mafra, Brasilia, at the House of Culture
from Rio Negro, at the Museum “Casa do Bucovina” from Rio Negro, Brasilia, at the
Public Library Parana from Curitiba, Brasilia.
He has personal works in private collections from Romania, USA, France, Italy,
Austria, Brasilia and Israel.
He has published caricatures in various local and central newspapers and magazines.
He has illustrated volumes of poems and colouring books for children. He graphically
rememorizes, in a series of exhibitions, the Romanian Gulag and he publishes the graphic
volumes “Retina Memory of the Romanian Gulag”, “Testimonies from Inferno” and
“Images from the Romanian Gulag”. The images from the Romanian Gulag constitute a
testimony for the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Romanians during
Communism, with troubling sequences from the prisons and labour camps. As regards the
painful memory of the prison, master Radu Bercea testimonies that we must keep the
memory of the past; however not let us overwhelmed “so as not to happen again”. Part
of his works was donated to the Association of the Former Political Prisoners from
Romania – Braşov and to the Memorial Museum from Sighet.
Bibliography
1. * * * Presidential Commission for the Analysis of Communist Dictatorship in
Romania: Final Report, p.1, Bucharest-2006.
2. Octav Bjoza, Evocări ale suferinŃei (Evocations of Suffering), in: Album, Radu Bercea,
“Imagini din gulagul românesc” (Images from the Romanian Gulag), pag.5, 6
“Pastel” Publishing House,Braşov, 2010.
3. Tiberiu Cosovan: Album “Memoria gulagului românesc” (Memory of the Romanian
Gulag).
4. Iuliana Popescu: ”Flori de spumă” (Foam Flowers).
Note:
In the frame of Openness project, an itinerant exhibition was organized, with the works of
plastic artist Radu Bercea, showing the images from the Romanian Gulag. Cruel realities
of life in the hell of communist prisons have sparked a great interest among visitors from
Velico Târnovo - Bulgaria, Oldemburg - Germany, Hodmezovasarhely – Hungary, and
Făgăraş – Romania. In the next pages there are shown 14 representative paintings of the
great plastic artist Radu Bercea.
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