Interview realized by Marilena Rotaru în 2000.
Interview realized by Marilena Rotaru în 2000.
Vlaicu Ionescu’s retrospective - A Fifty-year Celebration, Middletown Public Library, Middletown, NJ November 7 - November 30, 2019
Born in Romania, Ionescu (1922-2002) emigrated to Germany and then established himself in the United States in 1971. Ionescu exhibited in the United States, Germany, Romania, Italy, and France, and he received several international awards and recognitions. The exhibition in Middletown NJ, “Vlaicu Ionescu Retrospective - a Fifty-year Celebration,” following the one in Irvington NY, represents a unique opportunity to see over forty paintings and drawings spanning the artist’s most important creative directions: cubist-figurative landscapes and still lifes, mystical-hermetic drawings, symbolic-musical paintings. It occurs on the fiftieth anniversary of his 1969 exhibition in the University Library in Bucharest, which led to the invitation to exhibit in Munich, which proved to be a major turning point in Ionescu’s life and career.
INTERVIEW SUBJECTS FOR NOSTRADAMUS
(Discovery Channel, 2002)
1. Do you believe Nostradamus predicted the World Trade Center attack of 9/11?
Yes, the answer is on my Internet site.
2.Why do you think a quatrain attributed to Nostradamus about the World Trade Center went around the Internet after 9/11?
What circulated were fake quatrains (read more here)
3.Where do you get your quatrain translations from?
I use the princeps edition of Nostradamus, printed by Benoit Rigaud in 1568, in French. Edgar Leoni is the best translation in English, although not perfect. Every quatrain has a commentary by him (not an interpretation), sometimes good commentaries, useful for any interpreter. He is a man of culture. He has a skeptical academical view, but has honesty when the skeptical views are not adequate to recognize the best exegete of the 19th century, Anatolle Le Pelletier.
4. Why is there still so much focus on Nostradamus after more than four centuries?
01/26/20 Channel NYCTV-life (WNYE) – Cristi Boghian Realizator & Producator Romanian TV of New York (RTVNY)..
02/09/20 Channel NYCTV-life (WNYE) Cristi Boghian Realizator & Producator Romanian TV of New York (RTVNY).
Doina Uricariu, presented at ARA - the 43rd Congress, UCLA, November 16, 2019
Vlaicu Ionescu’s retrospective exhibition
Avant-Garde Paintings and Drawings, Martucci Gallery, Irvington, NY September 6 - October 30, 2019.
This exhibition at Irvington’s Public Library is a retrospective of Ionescu's middle artistic period (1960-1980), which Dr. Doina Uricariu, in her 2012 monograph Vlaicu Ionescu The Artist, described as "expressionist-abstract-mystical". It occurs on the 50th anniversary of his 1969 exhibition in the University Library in Bucharest, which, along with a 1968 exhibition there, drew the attention of French and German art critics and led to an invitation to exhibit in Munich, which proved to be a major turning point in Ionescu's life and career.
