​From Sunday, August 13, 2023, the Cantacuzino Castle art gallery will officially open its new exhibition. The art project entitled “Giorgio Butini.Il mito” is the first for the Florentine artist in Romania and explores the boundaries between reality and myth through sculptures as well as sketches and other graphic works. The whole exposition is built around a monumental marble sculpture over two meters high, depicting the myth of the flight of Icarus, created especially for Cantacuzino Castle. The exhibition will be open every day until October 29, 2023.

Giorgio Buttini is an Italian artist born in Florence with extensive experience in fine arts, sculpture, drawing, painting and goldsmithing, as well as ceramics and decorative arts. The artist also specializes in the restoration of paintings, frescoes and stone materials. Butini also engaged in in-depth studies of the anatomy of the human body. He has received seven important awards, such as the second prize at the Venice Biennale in 1997, the prize for the work “Dreams” presented at the sixth edition of the International Biennale of Art in Beijing, China in 2015 and in 2022 the International Prize of the City of Troina in the section sculptures, where he is recognized as the best contemporary sculptor.

“Art is a way of life for me, and I express my deepest feelings in it. So many of my works, reflecting moods and thoughts, found a voice and came to life. The limitations we feel, the loss of values ​​around us, the difficulty of understanding and expressing our deepest needs often mean that we are dissatisfied with our lives, locked in molds that force us to follow predetermined paths that others have chosen for us. – said Giorgio Butini.

Maestro Buttini created numerous public works, including “Majesty”, a bronze and silver sculpture located in the Quirinal Palace Museum in Rome, presented to the President of the Italian Republic in 2010, “Death, Resurrection and the Holy Spirit”, a bronze crucifix presented to the Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 and housed in the Vatican Museums, Rome, as well as The Arch of Peace, a work inaugurated in the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, Florence, in May 2023. The latter represents the vision of peace by the artist Giorgio Butini and will be permanently exhibited at the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels.

For Cantacuzino Castle, Master Buttini created two sculptures inspired by Greek mythology, thus referring to the theme of the exhibition. The first is a monumental sculpture in Carrara marble depicting the flight of Icarus, located in the castle’s sculpture park, facing the Bucegi Massif. Its height is 2.55 meters and its wingspan is 390 centimeters, making it the only marble statue of Icarus in the world of this scale. The second sculpture, made of bronze and located inside the castle, depicts Artemis, the goddess of wild animals, hunting and vegetation.

During the exhibition, visitors will be able to admire another twenty-five sculptures made of white marble, bronze, slate or acrylic representing deities, as well as some works dedicated to values ​​or abstract concepts such as spiritual rebirth, power, freedom. , supremacy, etc.

The exhibition “Giorgio Buitni.Il mito” is organized by Cantacuzino Castle and Original Media under the auspices of the Italian Embassy in Bucharest and the Italian Cultural Institute in Romania.

The logistics of the exhibition were carried out with the support of Volvo Trucks and KSC Transport, project partners for the safe transportation of the collection from Florence to Busteni. In addition, the transport was carried out with care for the environment, as the sculptures were driven across the territory of Romania in what is believed to be the country’s first zero-CO2 artwork transport with an electric Volvo for long-distance transport. FH Electric truck.

You can learn more about the exhibition on the website www.cantacuzinocastle.com. Tickets can be purchased directly at the entrance. For a group order (minimum 20 people), call +40 244 320 520.

Main partners: Volvo Trucks, KSC Transport, Museo Leonardo da Vinci, Original Media, Niccolai Elio, Emarket Solutions, Restaurant Canta Cuisine

Media partners: Agerpres, Radio Romania Cultural, Radio Romania International, HotNews.ro, Nine O’Clock, Ziarul News, Curatorial.ro, Modernism.ro

Cantacuzino Castle from Bushteny it was built in 1911 at the request of Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, nicknamed “Nababu”, served as a summer residence for a noble family and was one of the most modern buildings in Europe at the time of its opening.

In 2010, the historic and private monument was opened to the public for the first time to allow everyone to admire part of the Nabob’s legacy. Since then, it has become one of the most important cultural and tourist sites in the Prahova Valley.

In 2015, the Cantacuzino Castle Art Gallery was inaugurated, the first exhibition of which was dedicated to the Spanish artist Salvador Dali. After that, there were exhibitions of graphic works by artists Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as exhibitions of modern art with the works of artists Andrii Hamartz, Nadine Xeibi, Mirela Jordake from the Society. figurative artists from Romania, as well as a large exhibition of sculpture that celebrated the centenary of the Great Union, bringing together 100 Romanian sculptors. These periodic exhibitions were accompanied by many similar ones, trying to delight visitors with works of art of international importance.

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