RAD DESIGN
RAD - Romanian Art Dealers - was founded in 2023 by the country’s top contemporary art galleries. The project represents a new generation of gallerists, collectors, curators, partners and patrons dedicated to advancing the nation’s burgeoning contemporary art scene and supporting its growing prominence on the international stage.
Firmly rooted within the national scene, RAD continues to focus on local galleries, becoming the definitive meeting point for navigating the Romanian art world. It contextualizes local artists via its extensive Curatorial Summit and VIP Program which bring to Bucharest world-renowned institutions, collectors, critics and artists.
"IELE" CHAIR
In the vastness of the mioritic fields, where the earth undulates like the breath of a sleeping giant, the Iele dance — unseen, unbound, and unstoppable.
Inspired by their mythic force, the Iele Chair fuses the lightness of air with the resilience of forged bronze. Its sculptural curves mimic the fluid steps of the Iele, moving in eternal rebellion against the rigid, the expected, the imposed.
Crafted in bronze, the chair’s organic form recalls the soft horizon lines of the Romanian plains, while its hard material speaks to the strength found in resistance — political, personal, and poetic.
Like the Iele themselves, the chair is both invitation and warning: beauty with backbone, elegance with defiance. It stands as a sculpture of survival — a whisper of freedom molded into enduring form.
EXHIBITION
May 22 - 25, 2025
CARO
164A Barbu Vacarescu Street, Sector 2, Bucharest
