The Romanian Cultural Institute in Prague, the Czech Republic, will host an exhibition of collages by the already well known Romanian artist Ion Barladeanu, who was featured in an Emmy awarded documentary, ''The World According to Ion B’.

Over 80 works by the Romanian artist will be exhibited at the Czech Center Gallery in Prague between May 3 and 26. The screening of the movie 'The World According to Ion B’ is scheduled for May 23, and the workshop 'Create games of art', on May 24.

Ion Barladeanu was homeless when director Alexandru Nanau discovered him. Nanau was impressed by the newspaper collages Barladeanu was – and still is – creating. His collages, depicting life in communist Romania, were displayed in 2009 in London, next to works by Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp, and in 2010 at a gallery in Paris.

Barladeanu has complained that the success of the documentary has not brought any positive changes to his life. In a newspaper interview in 2010, he said he was still living in a room in a basement of a block in Bucharest and that he felt like ‘cursing God' when he heard about the Emmy Award.

The documentary received an Emmy Award in 2010. For more than 30 years, Ion Barladeanu selected and cut images from magazines and realized more than 1 000 collages. From 2008, he is represented by H’Art Gallery, and his works have started an international career, being exhibited in London, Copenhagen, Basel, Paris.

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