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We welcome you for a guided tour offered by the artist inside the installation space of the gallery situated in the basement of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, under the Cinema ”Muzeul Țăranului”. "The exhibition is essentially an artist's game. By definition, the game is a symbol of a struggle (with the self, with death, with malevolent external forces, for sheer pleasure - for victory) that can also take on the aspect of an offering. Rarely unintentionally, the game creates the bridge between fantasy and reality. For the artist, the inclination to play has evolved naturally over time. The hide-and-seek among the fir trees with his grandfather as a child, the irresistible desire to complete another video game as a teenager, the trivial, opaque and here and there rambunctious games of his youth, have all stood in the balance with creative play. Death, the ambiguous relationship between man and the transitory, the original community and small discoveries about worlds, cultures and civilizations are some of the offerings and game pieces that Mircea Modreanu transposes into works inspired by the crosses of the Jiu Valley, by the funerary stars with runic inscriptions of Scandinavian origin, including iconographic sequences found on Trajan's Column, thus linking traditions, symbols and motifs in an unusual, dramatic, paradoxically optimistic universe." Proiect cultural co-finanțat de Administrația Fondului Cultural Național.