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Acad. Răzvan Theodorescu

“In any house I’d be/ I am a rare servant And always welcoming/ Whoever may want to come.”

This is the beginning of an old fortuneteller that represented the Door, the humble door of the humble house of a peasant.

The one that has been changed by the well-inspired painter Ion Anghel, into the hero of a rare and extremely original exhibit.

The young artist obtained his academic recognition with a PhD about object, now transforming the most modest concept of objectivism into an authentic visual work. Three years after a remarkable exhibit in Mogosoaia, Ion Anghel proves that it is necessary to approach the old habits of our civilization, in order for the artist to discover a new and simple way of a conceptual vision. On the concept level, it appears to me an order of a various number of house doors, from the village’s fields and hills, as Buzău and Prahova, from Plopeasa to Jilava, from Pucheni (with its hawkers of pots) and Rățești (with its painted monastery by Nicolae Teodorescu a few centuries ago). There is a point where you can find a certain magic of the door, guiding the births, the marriages and the deaths of the villagers, with each generation.

Somehow, Ion Anghel’s doors are speaking about the authentic art povera’s minimalism, and by this the old object is receiving a new coat. Between the windows of the doors, there had been stashed over time plants and old newspapers. The author discovered and saved them from trash, putting them into a new light as some precious traditional paintings.

However, Ion Anghel painted various characters on the door’s old wood, as geometric silhouettes of saints in the places where it had been rusty boards, or death-like silhouettes with an golden scythe, or the shadow of the devil collapsed in hell, ironically wearing a carnaval mask, or a few peasant’s tools, or the conquering picture of an unicorn. Ion Anghel grew up in this universe of houses with fairytale’s doors, which proved to be a gate opener to the most simple and authentic universe of ,,The history through little ones”, if it is to quote the great Nicolae Iorga.