Ion Șinca · Exhibitions
The exhibitions
Nine exhibitions for which the archive holds extensive documentation — the poster, the catalogue, the photographs and the works identified — from 1996 to 2024. These are not all his exhibitions: he had been showing since 1974, and his first solo show was in 1984, at the Ploiești Art Gallery.
How many solo shows he had can be counted in two ways. Writing in November 2013 about that year's exhibition, the critic Corneliu Ostahie called it his eighth, and listed the others: 1984, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011. His list does not include the 1996 show at the „Jean Louis Calderon” Gallery in Bucharest, for which the archive holds the catalogue. By our count, the 2013 exhibition is the ninth.
- 7 works
The „Jean Louis Calderon” Gallery, Bucharest
His first solo show in Bucharest. Eighteen works, seven of which have so far been found again in the archive, following the list printed in the catalogue at the time.
- 41 works
Ploiești Art Gallery
The year of the phantasms. Almost half the works shown carry that name — forms that rise out of the landscape without leaving it.
- 35 works
Ploiești Art Gallery
Old houses, ravines, silver willows. The exhibition in which the motifs that would stay with him to the end are already all there.
- 26 works
Ploiești Art Gallery
The shores and the tree studies. An exhibition built on series: the same form taken up again until it begins to say something else.
- 27 works
Ploiești Art Gallery
The willows. Five canvases on the same subject, hung side by side, like a single painting taken apart into five.
- 30 works
Ploiești Art Gallery
The outskirts, the Saxon houses, the late still lifes. The last solo show he mounted himself, a year before his death.
- 23 works
„Ion Ionescu-Quintus” Prahova County Art Museum, Ploiești — retrospective
A retrospective at the museum, together with Ileana Dăscălescu. The original poster has not survived; the one here was remade from the invitation printed by the museum.
- 51 works
Ploiești Art Gallery — retrospective
The largest retrospective, two years after his death — fifty-one works, from the student studies to the last watercolours.
- 22 works
Ploiești Art Gallery — the in-memoriam dialogue exhibition
Ten years on. A dialogue exhibition: his works beside those of his former pupils, in the room where he had shown so many times.
The full exhibition chronology, in the biography ↗ · The original posters, on the home page ↗