CLAROBSCUR. FATAL PASSIONS. On Books and Paintings
With Adriana Babeți
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 · 6:00 PM
Art Encounters · Bd. Take Ionescu 46C, Timișoara
Ticket: RON 100 – includes a visit to the Picasso en visite exhibition.
About the event
On Wednesday, November 18, at 6:00 PM, we invite you to Art Encounters for a meeting with Adriana Babeți, dedicated to the relationship between literature, art and passion.
The event begins with a guided tour of the Picasso en visite exhibition, followed by the talk Clarobscur. Fatal Passions. On Books and Paintings.
About the talk
How can you fall in love with an image? Or fall in love within an image? And why, when contemplating the painting from which your beloved gazes back at you, do you become completely intoxicated?
Along the gallery walls, a procession of faces belonging to those consumed by the drug of passion unfolds through dreams, frescoes, painted pages and paintings. They come from the Odyssey, the Aeneid, the story of a troubadour, Dante’s Inferno, The Princess of Clèves, Pride and Prejudice and Sentimental Education.
What happens to the love stories depicted in paintings when they enter the novels of the 20th century? We will find out on another occasion. And as for those fatally in love with their own image – that is a subject for next time.
About Adriana Babeți
Adriana Babeți is a writer, essayist and literary critic, Professor of Comparative Literature at the West University of Timișoara and Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest. She is the author of several volumes of literary criticism, essays and prose, including Dictionary of the Central European Novel of the 20th Century.
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