Contimporanul Exhibition

Participants and works. From Contimporanul 50-51 (Nov-Dec 1924), p 16.

The First Contimporanul International Exhibition was organised by Contimporanul magazine in November 1924 at Bucharest's hall of the Artists' Union in which almost the entire Romanian avant-garde exhibit together for the first time (Maxy, Janco, Mattis-Teutsch, Brauner, Brancusi, Miliţa Petraşcu, Dida Solomon), along with international artists. The Contimporanul journal issues 50-51 and 52 (Nov-Dec 1924 and Jan 1925) largely covered the event of unprecedented magnitude in Romania.

Organising committee

Ion Vinea, Marcel Iancu, Max Herman Maxy.

Exhibiting artists

Romanian: Constantin Brâncuși, F. Aderca, Tristan Tzara, Tudor Arghezi, ALA. Philippide, Camil Petrescu, Ilarie Voronca, Perpessicius, Ion Pillat, B. Fundoianu, I. Barbu, I. Minulescu, Urmuz, Ion Sin-Giorgiu, Camil Baltazar, Ion Vinea, Sergiu Dan, Romulus Dianu, St. I. Nenitescu, Sandu Tudor, Al. Tudor Miu-Lerca, Eugen Jebeleanu, V. Eftimiu, Claudia Millian, N. Davidescu, N.D. Cocea, Cezar Petrescu, Adrian Maniu, T. Teodorescu-Braniste, Th. Solacolu, Mircea Eliade, Al. Kiritescu, Lucian Boz, Eugen Relgis, Dan Botta, Paul Sterian, M. Sebastian, O. Goga, Tudor Vianu.

International: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Hans Arp, Paul Klee, Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Segal, Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, C. Buholz, E.R. Vogenauer, Lajos Kassák, Karel Teige, Mieczysław Szczuka, Teresa Żarnowerówna, Marc Darimont, Lempereur Haut, Joseph Peters.

Catalogue

• Contimporanul 50-51, Bucharest, Nov-Dec 1924. (Romanian)

Literature

• Contimporanul 52, Bucharest, Jan 1925. (Romanian)
• Oscar Walter Cisek, "Expoziția internațională a revistei 'Contimporanul'", Gandirea 4:7 (15 January 1925), pp 218-220. (Romanian)

See also

• Contimporanul
• Romania#Avant-garde
• CEE#Avant-garde

Links

• http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/27/arts/art-in-review-047171.html
• The exhibition at Romanian Wikipedia

	Art exhibitions and events
Second Spring Exhibition of OBMOKhU (Moscow, 1920-21), Congress of International Progressive Artists (Düsseldorf, 1922), Congress of the Constructivists and Dadaists (Weimar, 1922), First Russian Art Exhibition (Berlin, 1922), New Art Exhibition (Vilnius, 1923), Zenit Exhibition (Belgrade, 1924), Contimporanul Exhibition (Bucharest, 1924), Machine-Age Exposition (New York, 1927), a.r. International Collection of Modern Art (Łódź, 1931), New Tendencies (Zagreb, 1961-73), The Responsive Eye (New York, 1965), 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering (New York, 1966), Cybernetic Serendipity (London, 1968), Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (Bern, 1969), Information (New York, 1970), Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art (New York, 1970), Documenta 5 (Kassel, 1972), Pictures (New York, 1977), Biennial of Dissent (Venice, 1977), Les Immatériaux (Paris, 1985), Magiciens de la Terre (Paris, 1989), Hybrid Workspace (Kassel, 1997)