Mar. 27 – Budapest pays tribute to Vincentiu Grigorescu, the Romanian artist who died two years ago in Castelnuovo Magra, a Ligurian town where he decided to live his last years. The show will be hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest and will be inaugurated on Thursday, April 3 at 6pm. “Vincentiu Grigorescu: the Italian and European Artist” is an exhibition that aims to highlight the detailed and complex path followed by Grigorescu, both humanly and artistically. Born in Bucharest in 1923, Grigorescu moved to Italy in 1972, where he died in 2012 after obtaining, in 1976, the Italian citizenship. HIs unique and painful experience of life under the communist system is accompanied by an equally singular 40-year long artistic career of in Italy. A painter and graphic artist of international renown, Grigorescu worked in the historical center of Castelnuovo Magra, in the La Spezia province.
