ROMANIA

 

Emil Banciu’s Onlinelibrary BANAT MEDIA and the FISART RETROSPECTIVE – Corina Nani & Sergio Morariu

Emil Banciu’s online library Banat Media offers virtual portraits of artists, exhibitions and art events in Romania. One book in particular caught our interest, the retrospective work on the great urban art festival FISART, which took place in Timisoara from 2011 to 2020 and attracted countless artists from all over the world. We talked in an interview with the publisher Emil Banciu, with the author Corina Nani and also with the photographer Sergio Morariu.

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Arad – Urban Art in the Northern Center of the Banat Region

Arad has around 145,000 inhabitants and is located in the south of the Kreisch region and in the north of the Banat, a major industrial center and important transport hub in the west of the country. Worth seeing are the Palace of Culture on George Enescu Square, the Turnului Water Tower, the Red Church and the Orthodox Holy Trinity Cathedral. Of course, there are also interesting works of urban art here.

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Urban Art Timișoara – Undertown Streetart Gallery & Graffiti Collection

Timișoara is one of the most important cities in Romania and it is not without reason that it was chosen as the European Capital of Culture in 2023. The city with around 250,000 inhabitants offers an impressive combination of Byzantine, Baroque and Modernist architecture. Of course there is also a lot of great urban art, above all the UNDERTOWN STREET ART GALLERY under a large bridge to Iulius Town is a highlight with works by national and international artists.

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Streetart Slatina – Munetenian Urban Art at the Olt River – School Spray Days

Slatina is located in southern Romania on the eastern bank of the River Olt, which flows from the Carpathians further south into the Danube. The town, which was first mentioned in a document in 1368, is part of the historic Muntenia region, has a population of around 79,000 and is an important industrial center. Naturally graffiti can also be found here, especially the local schools organize painting events and jams.

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Road  Trip  Banat – “Two who set out to learn how to plunder”

Reportage with an article and heaps of photos about a road trip through the Banat. It was a father-and-son-journey, with a search for family roots and ancestor data. So it was ideally to set off on Father’s Day at the highway to the east. The plan was  to pay the Banat a visit after all that years. And it was just great! Check out the reportage and photo gallery.

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Timișoara – City Reportage

Photo Gallery about Timișoara.

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Village Gallery – Ghizela / Giseladorf

Village Photo Gallery of the little village Ghizela, during German times called by founding name Giseladorf.

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Village Gallery – Covaci / Kowatschi

Village Photo Gallery of Covaci, during German times called by founding name Kowatschi.

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Village Gallery – Șandra / Alexanderhausen

Village Photo Gallery of Șandra, during German times called by founding name Alexanderhausen.

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Village Gallery – Cenad / Tschanad

Village Photo Gallery of Cenad, during German times called by founding name Tschanad.

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Village Gallery – Buziaș / Bad Busiasch

Village Photo Gallery of Buziaș, during German times called by founding name Bad Busiasch.

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Timișoara – Mehala

Village Photo Gallery of the neighborhood Mehala in Timișoara.

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Ghizela – Church

Photo Gallery with picture of the church in Ghizela / Giseladorf.

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Ghizela – Cemetery

Photo Gallery with picture of the cemetery in Ghizela / Giseladorf.

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Banat – Churches

Village Photo Gallery of the churches of the Banat.

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Banat – Cuisine

Photo Gallery about the Banat cuisine. Article is going to come as well.

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Banat – Vehicles

Photo Gallery about all kind of vehicles we found during our road trip through the Banat. Included are horse trailors like you see on the main pic, but as well cars, bicycles, trains, trams, buses, trucks, tractors and even quads. There are beetles, police cars, driveable lawn mowers and sportscars. The age range is diverse as well, in the collection you can find quite new luxury cars, also oldtimers or just left over car trash. And of course, al lot of people still trust in the good old bike or the 1 PS strong horse.

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Banat – Dogs

Photo Gallery with the dogs from the Banat.

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