"FUTURE FOLK" - Traditional nowadays
26 April 2018, Otilia Ignat, https://www.casalux.ro/noutati/future-folk-traditional-contemporaneitate/
„Future Folk”, cultural project which I have already told, initiated by the Association Alumnus Club UNESCO in Bucharest and financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration and Youth Center of Bucharest, go ahead with inspiration, enthusiasm and dedication. After the start of February, other new partners joined this initiative, and the ideas of its continuation in the future prospects generates increasingly more interesting. To give just one example, It is said that parliamentary group of national minorities in the Chamber of Deputies supports this project and provide logistical support, which anticipates conducting Main Event 20 June - launching collection of contemporary fashion design "Future Folk" - under the patronage of the Romanian Parliament.
Very important for the organizers was the first meeting of consultation with organizations of national minorities, held at the Romanian National Commission for UNESCO in day 27 March. This is because the whole project is designed and meets the goal of all these organizations - that conservation and enhancement of traditional costumes specific to their communities, a valuable and authentic piece of Intangible Cultural Heritage of multiethnic areas in Romania. And the city of Bucharest will appear in this picture. Few people know that here are found, in communities large and small, more than half of the 20 historical ethnic groups in our country.
"I picked very beautiful and interesting ideas from everyone involved in the project, already components as we thought initially are richer in content and visibility ", says Mrs. Daniela Popescu, President Alumnus Club UNESCO. He continues: "E.g, Russians Lipovans told us that in the past in their traditional costumes community is holy, it was important. Albanians told us about giubleta, kind of FOTA, one specific suit their popular. Italians and Poles suggested that Bucovina be the next area of inspiration for "Future Folk", Headquartered its national Suceava. Already they have outlined very clearly, the proposal partners, upcoming events after launch at Parliament - exhibition at the National Museum Village Dimitrie Gusti Bucharest, during 23 June - 22 July, then the same exhibition to another formula Philharmonic Paul Constantinescu Ploiesti, which will host Hellenic Union of Romania. The last stage will take place in Tulcea, another formula presentation of the exhibition, with support Lippovan Russian Community in Romania. But I must say that there is already Itinera invitations to exhibition centers and other ".
Returning to the main event, Collection launch "Future Folk", an original cultural product that will bring the current diversity of costumes and traditional motifs port, author collection, designer Carmen Emanuela Popa, It tells us that puts a lot of time in preparing this. With depth documentation, dozens of variants sketched all sorts of annotations, with attention to detail. But what comes out of her hands is not a simple reversal of lines and patterns, is something absolutely new, end modern, in tune with the latest fashion design artistic expressions. too, her art always sends a message, It has a touch avant-garde militant. This time, the message is that the artist launches, stopping us for a moment before perennial beauty, we can find ways of communicating, understanding and dialogue with the other people, no matter how different we. Message is a short film that Carmen Emanuela Popa prepares for project events, who made a request for early April in unconventional filming the International Airport Henri Coanda.
During the same period she was the protagonist of a story conducted by TVR 1 - Department programs for minorities, partner of the project "Future Folk", for Convieţuiri, a weekly show with and for national minorities in Romania.
But better to let Carmen Emanuela Popa to share some of her thoughts about the project on working:
„Future Folk"It is a visual plea for cultural developments in the contemporary society, with references to the symbolism demanding folk, What was revealed over time in aesthetics vocational costumes.
Self-expression in folk art is and will remain unique fingerprint that man puts in ancient times a definitely a tab indestructible history. It will remain both as a reference value of the human being, marking the fully past, and reminiscences insight of the future, overflowing with sincerity an opinion, relative to the surrounding world.
Future Folk this, at the same time, an interpretation of items marked, the features of a traditional piece of clothing, belonging to a certain ethnic groups, and stylistic accents that contemporary society absorbs, With the advancement of technology era. So, technique used in ancient, Finishing the garment, cusutul manual, acquires new forms of expression, substituting contemporary painting techniques, Solvent dyeing and printing and textile dyes.
The amount of use of this technique augmented the effect of the embossing (salience of stylized), thus conferring a dominant original newly created object, well known by surprise and contemplative visual effect.
Aunt free, in addition to a rigorous geometrization, and infusing generous dye painting, their lands are favorable, Cotton full surfaces, velvet or natural cloth. lace, care, once they were crocheted or embroidered, now gets a new look, by suggesting decorative motifs, in a graphic manner of hand printing, using special templates, or by painting the area of interest.
The jump in contemporary highlights when symbolic elements of today appear throughout this picture, a strident speech, in the central zone, front / rear, or the side, the sleeves of the garment. Random numbers or texts governing the existential issues of humanity today are found as antithetical time posts, those in the context of the narrative of ancient costumes. So, explicit and specific forms, representing a color of clothing traditionally extracted and blended in a manner juxtaposed or minimal, interpretative alluded to currents occurring in the second half of the century. twentieth - century phenomenon conceptual fashion.
Also, type materials high - tech, cu aspect industrial, silver, ecological leather, reflective tape, etc., refer to the time of industrialization and excessive, some form of regimentation of man and also of its exploitation in factories or multinational, sign that such equipment can be classified as a folk recently.
Costume past exposes a freedom that man today not a have patience. Direct communication with nature, flowers and ears of wheat field, with rivers or shrines, they portrayed the people of those times, in an archaic form, divinity, lost consistency, and all these landmarks primary nontangenţialul makes today, man, poet these times, assume other forms of expression spirituality.
Modern humans interact socially, cultural și artistic. Mix symbolic elements found in costume newly created refers to the congruence between male / female, another pawn characteristic of free interpretation, Alignment marks a stylistic, consistent with human fashion action plan today, so, she gave up tradition, she wears pants, an object intended mainly men centuries ago.
A wide range of style in the field of sport, glamour, luxury, reveals future with contemporary cutting lines, but also used materiality, taffeta, organza, silk or tulle generous amounts. So, there is a transfiguration of traditional costume, acquiring the value of an idealized object, supported by a rigorous fiction picture, and references spontaneous existential philosophy.
The film atmosphere, a conclusive mood project, contemporary character placed in an architectural aerodynamic, so, elements of the state of grace, the human being jubilant in daily, and nostalgic recollections of some aspects of traditional dance, driving the whole visual essay, a Dual Image perimeter telluric.
If human history comes to us, a pretty path of light bathed seasons, carrying with it the infinite love divine and human nature, Modern man must perpetuate these values, even if, today, other forms of military. They must give their hand under one goal, the Peace. too, project message Future Folk. He refers to the interposition of slogans against violence, against war, man number in places where once, oamenii, laid them on, flowers sat, angels and birds.
The art, always, changed hearts and lives, it is and will remain a worthy messenger who will fight, assumed, but not always declarative, for a better world ".
