no more drama?! 3 monodramas!

Yet another drawing for my polish fellows, but this time is about theatre: 3 monodramas / 3 days with Janusz Stolarski in Bucharest, event hosted by other friends of mine, La Scena Club [actually, i'm one of the co-founders of Arca Theatre, which is in the attic of their magic house].
More details about this event here.
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by mugur grosu, 2009

soundcheck. from poland

well, yes, I'm addicted to jazz, so i did it again: this poster is for Soundcheck - a polish jazz band lead by Maciej Kocinski, founded in 2002. Polish Institute in Bucharest managed to bring them in Romania for 4 concerts:
-in Bucharest: October 16, at 08:00 PM - Green Hours Club
-in Sibiu: October 17, at 05.00 PM - Gong Theatre, at Jazz & More Festival
-in Cluj-Napoca: October 18 - at. 06.00 PM - Students Cultural House, and at 10.00 PM - Diesel Club, for a jam-session at the Transilvania Jazz Festival
...It could be a must, lol!
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by mugur grosu, 2009

Harry Tavitian & Hans Kumpf - Live at Comburg Abbey

I just finished the design for the newest CD album of Pirate Records - Harry Tavitian & Hans Kumpf - Live at Comburg Abbey, recorded at 3 June 2008 in Germany. Working for Harry is always a privilege & a pleasure for me because he is my mentor, my friend and my Godfather... At the early age of five I started to play piano and to attend a jazz club lead by Tavitian; the armenian born in Romania jazzman is one of the most influent and original contemporary muzicians of my country, wide known for his concerns about cultural bridges and syncretism of the arts, so meeting him was a turning point in my life, and the beginning of a series of biographical accidents too... After some years I was kicked-out from the music school cause I played at exams some variations of Bach in a jazz manner, later I was rejected 3 times from the Fine Arts Academy of Bucharest and so on... But this was the beginning of all the good things in my life. Thank you, Harry!




some other works i did for Harry:

Birth





Dancin' 'round the Black Sea





Balcaz



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by mugur grosu, 2009

20 years after the Autumn of Nations

20 years ago i wasn't able to imagine myself doing a blasphemy like this... a poster celebrating the falling of the iron courtain in the East Europe! Poland was the first Warsaw Pact state country to break free of soviet domination and Romania was the last eastern-bloc country to overthrow its communist regime. The Polish Institute in Bucharest is inviting us to remember the story of our freedom: year 1989
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by mugur grosu, 2009

The American Dream. And so on...

The German Dream



[thanks for translation, keb!]



















The Romanian Dream





















Ok, now the Real Romanian Dream...





















[* mic / mici / mititei = Romanian for little or small ones = traditional dish, grilled minced-meat rolls made from beef (sometimes mixed with mutton and pork). Here is the recipe: link]
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by mugur grosu, 2009

Hainecool / spoof Heineken

This is our first video-spoof [for the original version clic here]. Enjoy and make fun of crisis!
[haine in romanian means clothes, so haine cool = cool clothes. I mean really cool...]
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by mugur grosu feat gilda popa, 2009

Mikołaj Trzaska - War Song

Few days ago i have finished this poster for The Polish Institute in Bucharest. If you're interested in polish jazz you have to be there: on 3rd of september at Green Hours club in Bucharest, or 5th of september at Gong Theatre in Sibiu. For more informations related to this event check the Get your IP blog.
And here is a great performing on Mariacka Street in Gdansk... What a great ending, thanks to the local police! :)
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by mugur grosu, 2009

Choose your Mona Lisa

This is a presidential election year in Romania and all of us will be asked to choose our favourite. It’s like a collective marriage and a national headache. If you don’t pay attention you’ll pay with 5 years of life, cause it’s imposible to undo your vote. So it’s worst than a blind marriage, because if something goes wrong you’re not allowed to change your chosen one. But how can you choose? There are so many options, so many upgrades, too many red & green publicity signals. Everybody is arguing with everybody and it’s a fact: nobody is listening to anybody, cause nobody wants a somebody else’s bride... In addition, don’t forget the financial crisis: it's drought time but they spend huge amount of bucks just to make you hear their promises, just to make you see their smile... What about their smile? Nobody knows why politicians are smileing so much – especially in posters. Maybe they know something we don’t. It’s like the misterious smile of Mona Lisa. This is it! Check this out, it's a very simple idea and costs almost nothing. Why spending so much for a smile? The authorities should set a standard which every candidate can apply for himself. In fact, he will apply his face on it: all the candidates will recieve the same amount of basic posters and all they’ll have to do is fit their figure with the rest of the picture. And we’ll decide which smile is fitting with our expectations! Isn’t it fair enough? Now is so easy to choose! Just take a peek and vote!



















Traian Băsescu




















Crin Antonescu




















Mircea Geoană




















prince Radu Duda

...will be continued?
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by mugur grosu, 2009

Snailopedia illustrated - 10

Do you remember Snailopedia [= Melciclopedia, in romanian] the collective work in progress initiated by Poemix two years ago? Well, as Scheherazade would say, the snail must go on...
What do you say about some Snails & the City episodes. Let's see ...snails in Moscow? [Melcscova: as you remember, melc = snail in romanian ...]. Now let us hear your stories*...
update: mine* is already there.
*[in romanian]
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by mugur grosu, 2009

something stinks in mass media

It seems that one of so called "top quality" newspapers in Romania is in deep shit and the only solution they found is to put a butcher in charge, so the smell of the blood will cover the stinks. I guess some cheap rebranding tricks are also mandatory, so this could be their new identity :)
update: there is a call to boycott. Here, here, here, here, here[!] & here ;)