Born
6 December 1968, Chisinau
Addresses
Bucharest:
Calea Victoriei nr.118, et.5,
O.P.C.N. 70719, sector I Bucuresti
tel: 659.55.24 | 659.25.90
private:
330.25.02
Chisinau:
Vlaicu Pircalab, nr. 8, apt. 6
2001, Chisinau
tel: 022/ 222.918 | 022/ 212. 765, 212.766
E-mail:vbulat@c4.com,
vbulat@hotmail.com
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Education
1980-1989 - Arts High School "Igor Vieru", Chisinau
1989-1990 - Kiev Arts Institute, faculty of arts history and theory
1990-1994 - Bucharest Art Academy, faculty of arts history and theory (diploma paper under the supervision of professor Razvan Theodorescu)
since 1994 - Doctoral student at the Bucharest Art Academy, pursuing a thesis on the Romanian culture during the Phanariot period. The city of Bucharest seen through the prism of its neighborhoods and social life (civilization, art, the relationship between the state and the church), abandoned in 1998
1997-1998 - Master's degree in the history of art (the Division of South-East European Studies), pursuing a thesis on the post-war visual arts in R.Moldova, an interdisciplinary study (1940-1997); thesis defended in 1999
Author of over one hundred articles, essays, and art reviews about the old and contemporary Romanian art, as well as book reviews published in specialized periodicals in Romania (Ars Transsilvaniae, 22, Contemporanul, Balkon, Adevarul Literar si Artistic, Dilema, Observator Cultural, Artelier, Arhitext Design), Republic of Moldova (Contrafort, Columna, Sud-Est, Literatura si Arta, Tineretul Moldovei, Faclia, ART-Hoc, s.a.) and Hungary (Balkon).
Activities in periodicals
Since November 1995 - permanent section "Simeze" in the Contrafort magazine in Chisinau (published by the Romanian Cultural foundation)
Since 1996 (April-November) - weekly contributions to the national daily Actualitatea, Bucharest
1999 - permanent contributor to the Balkon magazine in Cluj-Napoca
1994 - a study and museums trip to Hungary (Budapest, Esztergom, Pannohalma, Szentendre)
1996 - 1999 - contributor to the Dictionarul Artistilor Romani (The Dictionary of Romanian Artists), together with Octavian Barbosa (research program)
1997-1999 - member of the Chisinau SCCA board
1996 - member of the Romanian U.A.P., division of criticism
Since 1998 - permanent section at the Arhitext Design magazine ("Art and Society"), Bucharest
2000 - book: Arta si ideologie, de la "realismul socialist" la "noua sensibilitate": 1940-2000 (Art and Ideology, from the "socialist realism" to "the new sensibility" 1940-2000) - Cartier publisher, Chisinau. Illustrated edition
2000 - AICA member, Romanian section
2000 -2001- member of the [ksa:k], Chisinau expert committee
Curatorial activity
1997-March, curator of the exhibition "Obiectul" (Bitzan, Bratescu, Coita, Grigorescu, Petraschievici, Rata, Stanculescu), Art Galleries of the Bucharest City
1997-June, curator of the exhibition "Portretul ca peisaj interior" (Portrait as Inner Landscape) (Ion Bitzan, Dan Perjovschi, Vasile Rata, Mircea Spataru, Marcel Scutaru, Elena Scutaru, Nistor Coita, Valeriu Mladin, Roxana Trestioreanu, Mihai Chiuaru, Eugen Stanculescu), Art Galleries of the Bucharest City
1998-May, curator of the exhibition "Ruptura" (devieri de la "realismul socialist": 1944 -1987), National Museum of Arts, Chisinau
1998-July, co-curator (together with Tatyana Mogilevskaya and Octavian Esanu) of the group of artists from R. Moldova in the international exhibition "Senses test station" , Moscow (Moscow International forum of art initiatives)
1999-March, curator of the exhibition "2 instalatii", by Eugen Stanculescu, Simeza Gallery, Bucharest
2000 - May-August, curator of the exhibition Ritual pentru setea pamintului (Ritual for the Thirst of the Earth), Village Museum, Bucharest (30 contemporary Romanian artists)
2001 - curator of the exhibition "Moara fara vint" (Windless Mill), "Artexpo", Bucharest
2001 - October, curator of the exhibition "Istorii-fluture" (Butterfly Stories) (Carmen Paiu, Elena Scutaru), Curtea Veche, Bucharest
Scientific publications
Reviews of books and art publications:
- Bucuresti, Materiale de istorie si muzeografie, vol. XI, Museion, Bucharest, 1992, in: Buletinul Comisiunii Monumentelor Istorice, year V, no. 1-4, 1994, p.85
- Restituirea unei valoroase contributii stiintifice pentru istoria artei romanesti este un gest de noblete (reviewe of the book: Ion Muslea, Icoanele pe sticla si xilogravurile taranilor romani din Transilvania, pub. Grai si Suflet - Cultura Nationala, Bucharest, 1995), in: Cotidianul, no. 35, 13 February 1996
- Constantin Balan, Inscriptii medievale si din epoca moderna a Romaniei. Judetul istoric Arges (sec.XIV - 1848 ), pub. Academia Romana, 1994, in: Ars Transsilvaniae, vol. V, 1995, pp. 193-194
- "Scrisoare pe nisip" (review of book: Daniel Barbu, Timpul si privirea in civilizatia romaneasca a secolului al XVIII-lea, pub. Antet, Bucharest, 1996.), in: Contrafort,
year III, no. 6, June 1996
- "Intre Utopie si Traditie" (review of book: G.M. Cantacuzino, Scrisorile catre Simon, pub. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1993), in: Contemporanul - ideea europeana, no. 13-15, July, 1994
- "Un omagiu mainii" (review of book: Victor Ieronim Stoichita, Efectul Don Quijote. Repere pentru o hermeneutica a imaginarului european, pub. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995), in: Contemporanul - ideea europeana, no.3, January, 1996
- "O contributie esentiala" (review of book: Constantin I.Ciobanu, Biserica Adormirii Maicii Domnului din Causeni, pub. Stiinta, Chisinau, 1997), in: Contrafort, year V, no.7-8, August, 1998
- "Pictori evrei din Romania" (review of book: Amelia Pavel, Pictori evrei din Romania, pub. Hasefer, Bucharest, 1996), in Actualitatea, no. 30, 12 September 1996
Scholarships and prizes
1995 - Romanian U.A.P. scholarship for criticism
2000 - "Radu Rosetti" Prize awarded by the Cultural Foundation
" Magazin Istoric ", Bucharest
2000 - Essay prize awarded at the National Book Exhibition in Chisinau
2001 - Prize for Debut awarded by the Union of Writers of Moldova
Professional activity
Since January, 1995 - Museograph with the Office for the National Cultural Heritage, Bucharest
Since June, 2000 - editor of ART-Hoc bulletin, published by the Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau
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