Between 25-31 may 2020 a avut loc Art Education Week Alumnus Club for UNESCO participated with the Future Folk project.
The international project Future Folk is an initiative of the Alumnus Club Association for UNESCO in collaboration with the artist Carmen Emanuela Popa. Co-financed by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN), The Youth Center of the Municipality of Bucharest and the National Commission of Romania for UNESCO, started in the year 2018 and developed a series of interpretive visuals, making real artistic leaps between the historical and the contemporary, but also between stylistic statements of different cultures.
So, through each exhibited work, the artist proposed a junction between elements of Romanian folklore from different regions of the country, but also from the international one, all impregnated with an urban allure. Also, as novelty elements, decorative sewing is replaced by pictorial techniques of contemporary art and materials such as cotton cloth or neoprene are the object of the reinterpretation of some archetypal clothing pieces, as it is, e.g, Chinese Hanfu or 19th century French royal attire. XVIII.
"Creative projects are manifestations that prove that art is a carrier of emotions from man to man. Also, a context of experiment and learning is created. Art develops emotional intelligence, an essential factor in the in-depth assimilation of education. The artistic act augments the moral budgets without which man could not know perfection. - Carmen Emanuela Popa
Future Folk was exhibited in Romania at the Palace of the Parliament, National Museum of the Village, Bucharest in 2018, Romanian Cultural Institute / Galaxy SOHO din Beijing, at the NIO Company in Hefei, China at the beginning of the year 2019 and in Paris in France, at the City Hall 1 / Place du Louvre 4, in October 2019.
