Galeriile Carol București

Dozens of years ago, just a few hundreds of meters away from the building which hosts Carol Galleries, there was one of the emblematical area of Bucharest: the Forefathers’ Fair. A rather protourban space, where medieval-like trade grafted onto an incipient capitalism – almost as new as the King Carol’s reign, whom we owe our name –, this eminently commercial area propagates its spirit into the postmodern art trade of the neighbourhood, Carol Galleries included. It’s been like yesterday until those who built and populated this civic zone used to make goods safari the way we do art safari nowadays. (Caragiale’s notorious list remains, if not exhaustive, defining at least.) What we believe these two things have in common is the experience of being curious and being in the know, of seeking and meeting at least an unknown person, yet always The Unknown; each going out to this fair occasioned meeting, again, the ordinary in a new form and the extraordinary in bizarre, intriguing, maybe frightening shapes, but always memorable. We can’t promise you (provided you wanted these) breath-taking encounters in Carol Galleries, but we intend to give you, with each exhibition or event, the opportunity to congratulate yourselves for choosing to visit us.