Konstantino Miciu Nicolaevici brought his family to Argentina in 1949. Despite the pains of war he had experienced in Europe, he carried an unbreakable faith. Thanks to this and to his artistic and academic education[,] he pursued his career into what would become its “American” stage. And on this territory, his descendents would grow.
He kept a letter from a friend, Vladimir Martzinkovsky, who wrote of the artist’s task: “... make beauty triumph over the disorder of the ugliness of human contemplation, and instead make people thirst for the realization of beauty.” So inspired, Konstantino painted and raised his sons, Demetrio and Georg.
Years later, with the opening of “Three Generations Miciu Nicolaevici” at the National Museum of Decorative Art, the first idea was born of the seed’s gestation. In 2006, the book “Georg” was published, recounting the story of the younger brother’s artistic journey. It was completed at the encouragement of Jorge Bonzano, Georg’s inseparable companion in the quest to realize his dreams. The book prompted Jorge into conceiving the idea of creating a context, or “framework”, for the Works of the “three generations of artists of excellence”. Working with Georg, they developed the concept of a building that would house these works.
A challenge of sizeable proportions, enthused by the notion of its fruition, they travelled down the road of convictions, passing those works prepared by the Creator. Without official or private assistance, circumventing banalities and searching for the most profound feeling, which is to confirm the Creator’s protection.
After five years of investment and effort- traversing the invisible path that entwined lyricism and entrepreneurial spirit- they opened the doors to Colección Georg, a project that strikes a balance between the building and the artistic works it contains. At last, the seed flowered in the Cordillera’s soil. Light plays an essential role in this artistic universe, which orbits around the axis of its namesake, the one who renews it with his labor. This exhibit features the works of ten members of the Miciu family, accompanied by a collection of works by other Patagonian artists whose paintings and sculptures share similar characteristics.
Bonzano’s goal for the collection is that each visitor should discover, between entering and departing the building, “a seed of incalculable value... If that happens, in some way, it will give genuine meaning to so many years of work.”
For Georg, the museum is directed towards anyone who appreciates beauty and loveliness. As the Parisian art critic Raymond Clermont once wrote about the experience of viewing Georg’s work: “Through the eyes enters a song, born of nature, for the pleasure and edification of the soul, without vain or morbid intellectualism. Health, life, harmony ...”