ASEZareaTRECereaCERCul

The goal of the project – to transfer scientific research to the level of folk culture so that a rebirth of the Romanian cultural identity may be achieved. Since the first model of the Romanian identity lies under the sign of THE GOOD and the second model makes out of THE TRUTH the essential value, the model of the Romanian peculiarity stands in THE FATE with a double meaning: on the one hand Fate means assumption of our location (Romania), of a settled people “on the edge that separates three different civilizations: the Slave one, the Asian one the Western one (Eminescu)”; of that people capable of preserving its identity through faith and folk culture. One the other hand FATE means assertion of the Roman world through creation and culture.

Resorting to “Cucuteni Culture” as a part of the Romanian identity through personal experiment (but identifying some general cultural rules, as well) choosing this ethnological culture, evoking and interpreting the project is meant to become a work of an author, a reflection on an author on the past, a mental construction with a shape and image as any other artistic production.The Cucuteni Culture is one of the most splendid social and cultural development in the Romanian Neolithic. Bearing a great complexity and variety on a huge territory the Cucuteni Culture got to pre-urban shapes but it was not able to cross the threshold of the urban revolution because its development was interrupted by the Indo-European groups migration around 2000 BC. In Romania, a lot of ceramics objects had been discovered having a great fineness. Big number of the objects discovered guided the archaeologists to think of some ritually purposes. Pots and figurines constitute the treasure of this Culture. The anthropomorphous figurines impressed, thinking of the fact that they could give some information about anthropology, and even more: about the social life of that time.Prerequisites of our project are here, too. We shall use the representation of two figurines – man and woman – that will be submitted to our interpretation and to the artistic laws. The more feminine ones are very smooth, some being decorated through incision or being painted and decorated with geometrical elements. The masculine figurines are stylised but without marking its sex. Sometimes the triangular thorax is covered with a diagonal strip. As a symbol, it’s easy to see the man like an exponent of the power and manhood. The woman defines through beauty, voluptuousness, and fertility.

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de specificat ca fotografiile au fost realizate de Violeta Radu.

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Scopul proiectului “ ASEZareaTRECereaCERCul “ este acela de a reusi un transfer a cercetarii stiintifice la nivelul culturii populare, pentru a reusi o renastere a identitatii culturale romanesti. Daca primul model al identitatii romanesti statea sub semnul BINELUI, in timp ce cel de-al doilea facea din ADEVAR valoarea centrala, pentru modelul specificitatii romanesti valoarea cardinala o constituie DESTINUL intr-un dublu sens: de o parte, destin inseamna asumarea amplasamentului nostru (Romania) ontologic de popor asezat “ pe muchia ce desparte trei civilizatii deosebite: cea slava, cea asiatica si cea occidentala” (Eminescu), popor care si-a pastrat identitatea prin credinta si cultura folclorica, si, pe de alta parte, destin inseamna afirmarea romanitatii, prin creatie si cultura.

Uzind de Cultura Cucuteni ca parte a identitatii romanesti, prin experimentare personala (si identificarea unor legi culturale universale si generale), prin alegerea acestei culturi etnologice analoage, si, binenteles, prin interpretare si evocare, proiectul “ ASEZareaTRECereaCERCul “ devine o opera de autor asupra trecutului – constructie mentala, alcatuita din forma si imagine ca oricare productie artistica.

Cultura Cucuteni constituie una din cele mai splendide dezvoltari socio-culturale din neoliticul romanesc. Comportind o mare complexitate si diversificare pe un teritoriu imens, cultura cucuteni a ajuns pina la forme preurbane, dar nu a putut sa treaca pragul revolutiei urbane, intrucit dezvoltarea ei a fost intrerupta de migratia grupurilor indo-europene din preajma anului 2000 i.e.n.

Dupa aceasta constatare preurbana ne-am oprit la cultura cucuteniana. Mai exact la cele doua figurine antropomorfe Barbat si Femeie, intorcindu-ne astfel intr-o zona aflata in penumbra, pentru a incerca un mod de a gindi cu tot ceea ce implica aceasta actiune. In timp ce barbatul simbolizeaza puterea, barbatia, femeia se defineste prin frumusete, voluptate, fertilitate. Cele feminine sunt complet netede, fie decorate prin incizie, fie decorate prin pictura, cu elemente geometrice apartinind aceleeasi gramatici. Figurinele masculine sunt stilizate dar fara marcarea sexului. Adesea toracele triunghiular este marcat de o banda diagonala.

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