“A charming technique of research, of sophistic origins and condemned by rationalists of all times still haunts todays world through scientific and philosophical mythologies. It implies an intimate relationship between the name and the essence of a thing, a latent or hidden identity that creates an ontological puzzle. And it will be the sciences of language, some special etymology of beings that will uncover the truth. It postulates a mythical origin of language, as the creation of a word was a result of a distillation of an ancient sacred thought into a mundane sound and every naming hides a forgotten legend.

The whole culture of mankind is composed of such non-rational thoughts, archaic types of knowledge, different yet non-inferior to the official logics, poetic science theories and mythological collective metaphysics.

The sun observed by a man will never be the same with the sun observed by a weather measuring device. It will still bear the crown of a king from the childhood stories, or the moods of an ancient Egyptian god.

In the same manner, no building will be ever seen by the people that stop to admire it with the eyes of the architect that designed it, or with the mind of the builder that knows how much cement and iron it contains.

The admirer will see it in the colors of his own feelings, surrounded by flashes of his past experiences and judge its beauty with canons that defy any logical approach.

A fantasy realm of beings of sacred beauty and alien organic forms, of ghosts and spooks of mythological descendance projected on the buildings of the City should be able to achieve more than a mere visual delight.

The art show should also bring some sort of emotional reconnection between the public and the mythological roots of its City.”

text by Cristian Cojanu