Visitors who hunt the perfect picture with the phone in exhibitions are today a constant of museums and art galleries. Art Safari, the most beloved event dedicated to art in Romania, launches an atypical invitation: a break from screens and a real experience with art.
In the week of visiting July 17-20 (Thursday-Sunday), Art Safari proposes to the visitors a digital disconnection and a reconnection with art, suggesting to enjoy works really-without photographs, without stories, without notifications. The art viewed face to face, not through the phone’s room.
We spend an average of 3H43-45 on the phone, the global studies show, and we only give 20 minutes when we visit a museum. In most museums and art galleriesvisitors spend only 15 seconds in front of a work.
“When you were the last time you were 100% in an art exhibition, without sitting with your phone in your hand, without looking for the perfect angle for Story, without thinking about how many likes you will receive? I would like to challenge you to come to Art Safari without a phone or at least hold it in your bag, in your pocket, during the visit. Do not take pictures of the works, do not post them, but just spend a few minutes without a phone in front of the works. What will they send you then? Let’s try to look at the works of art with our eyes, not through the phone lens. Let’s try together to reduce this very close relationship we have with mobile phones ”, declares Ioana Ciocan, Managing Partner Art Safari.
This is not a prohibition, but a conscious choice proposed to the public by art Safari.
Last days of visit – this edition ends on July 27!
Art lovers can also visit the emblematic exhibitions of the season, until the end of July. The exhibition program includes the tribute to Ioan Andreescu and the retrospective dedicated to Ion Țuculescu, from the exhibition “forgotten Romanian painters” who brings in the foreground dozens of valuable artists, to the exhibitions loved by the public – dogs vs. Cats, it was once in stories, and the contemporary art of the new wave of Young Blood 4.0 artists.
The program of the latest special events of the season is available here.
The Art Safari Visiting program is on Thursday-Sunday, 12: 00-21: 00, on Lipscani 18-20. Tickets are available here.
About Art Safari
Art Safari – with the support of its partners, Lidl, Glo, George, Porsche, Bristol Myers Squibb, Profiart – is specialized in making exhibition pavilions of visual art and national history. Annual organizer of the Bucharest Art Pavilion-the largest conglomerate of art exhibitions in Romania-reached the 16th edition, Art Safari realizes, in partnership with both the art museums in Romania and with the international ones and with the help of private collectors, extensive retrospective exhibitions that propose the recovery of the heritage values. Having a strong educational side, the art mission Safari is to bring the art of public and educate the new generations, including by organizing art workshops, guided tours and contemporary art exhibitions in unconventional spaces, such as Henri Coanda Airport or the Bucharest subway. Art Safari is a strategic national cultural project and is carried out in partnership with the Museum of Bucharest. In the 15 editions so far, it has registered about 1 million visitors. More details: Artsafari.ro.
Press contact: Cristina Lica, Communication Director, 0740.051.749, [email protected]
