Cătălin Săvulescu
If someone asks me what I was doing eight and a half years ago, I have to sit a little before I realize that this is 2010. So far away, it seems to me that the InSight probe seems somewhat closer. 2010 is the year when Cătălin Rudolf proposed me to be part of the team of the photo lecturers from VSLO, Visual Arts Festival. There was, at that time, something new, something that no one had the courage to organize before. As a first reaction something from the name of the festival stirred my curiosity. And I’m not referring to the place where the festival is taking place, Vama Veche – a place where I had not been before the revolution, in times immemorial. What caught my attention was the fact that many people will have the opportunity to use and test the lights Dedolight, lights are even Oscar (used in countless films that have won – American Beauty, The Lord of the Rings, etc.). I just said yes, thinking only about Harcourt portraits, the product photograph where you can use Dedolight to highlight the smallest detail and all the genres of photography you can use. What more, you understand, the limitation of these lights is the imagination of the photographer!
That year Vama Veche he appeared in new clothes, do not know whether beautiful or ugly, but I think, simply because it came bundled with a handful of hearty, eager to succeed, I felt a where photography and film really have their purpose. VSLO became, in the meantime, a small chameleonic monster. Because, every year, Catalin managed to gather under the large umbrella of reeds, many lecturers both foreign and Romanian, covering a wide range of topics and approaches photographic, film directors and cinematographers international awards and painters very talented.
A visual arts festival that has always changed its wrinkles and face, where photography, film, painting and music have been found, becoming ever larger and more attractive, never the same, never boring. The organization and development of the details is a work of Sisif, the preparations for a new edition starting from the current edition. Today, VSLO is the festival you are supposed to take part in if you have a job in the field of visual arts. It is a meeting point for people who have art in the blood, who find inspiration in any sandy wire and for which nothing stands in the way of creation. It is a concentration of new lessons or epiphany in a décor of joy and optimism, alongside the same handful of people who have been there every year, with the same desire to do things right, even if the rhythm is dizzying and sometimes, tiring.
