YEAR: 2020

SCANNING: 3 hours

PROCESSING: 2 days

CREDITS: Gabriel TAMASANU, Stefan STASISIN

BENEFICIARY: Itinerama - Explorator in Baragan

The "Nicapetre" Cultural Center, managed by the "Carol I" Museum of Braila,  hosts an art gallery and also a historical monument of architecture.

“It is not a memorial house, but it is one of the heritage buildings that is part of the history of Braila - it was built in 1912 by the Greek shipowner M. Embericos. Designed by architect Lazar I. Predinger, the building was originally the headquarters of the ship agency M. Embiricos & Co. and the home of the great shipowner.

Nicapetre graduated from the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in 1964, asserting himself, from the beginning, as an original designer and sculptor of great value. Until 1980 he lived and created in Romania. Invited to a symposium in Greece, he receives permission from the communist authorities to leave. He left Romania on July 15, 1980 and decided not to return.

He leaves behind all his creation as a draftsman and sculptor, made between 1962 and 1980, in his workshop in Braila. Refusing to comply with the authorities' insistence on returning to the country, the workshop is vandalized and many of the works destroyed.

In July 1981, Nicapetre emigrated to Canada, to Toronto. Although he was forced to work as a carpenter or painter to survive, he secretly continued to draw (the "Artist and Nature" cycle), to paint (the "Flowering Orchards" cycle), to write the autobiographical volume "Brailita - Downtown - via UAP”) and to carve, in parks or in isolated places, tree trunks overturned by the storm and, more and more rarely, in stone.

Since 1982 he has managed to exhibit painting and sculpture in Toronto at the Columbus Center, and in 1985 he opened his personal sculpture exhibition at the Goethe Institute. This was the beginning of an intense exhibition activity that will bring him international recognition.

Nowhere did he stand out for the variety of techniques, genres and complexity of his work, presented in galleries and other cultural reference spaces in Canada, the USA, Japan, Greece, Germany, Austria. "

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