proiectul 'inger parc'

Imprejurimile portului au fost botezate Inger parc prin 2002, ca replica la entuziasmul national generat atunci de proiectul Dracula Parc, ce se visa un magnet pentru turistii occidentali in cautare de exotism fara terorism. Pana la urma ingerii periferici de la Dunare au invins si Dracula a ramas fara templu. Ingerii insa s-au statornicit de atunci pe aici, instaurind o dictatura luminata asupra democratiei naturii, careia, de voie de nevoie, ne-am supus si noi.

‘Am facut parcul ca sa polemizez cu Dracula Parc. In tara asta nu o fi fost numai dracul jupan, macar pe la malul Dunarii o fi trecut si vreun inger, iar brandul de tara e mai bine sa fie cu ingeri’
‘… era pe la asfinţit şi vreo şapte cai apăruseră chiar în faţa casei şi părea că s-au oprit să se uite la îngerii sculptaţi pe malul apei. M-am gândit atunci că uite, caii se mai opresc să se uite la îngeri, dar oamenii nu. Şi mi-am zis că asta vreau să fac aici: să-i conving pe oameni să se mai uite puţin şi la îngeri.”
Mircea Dinescu

Dupa sanctuarul ingerilor a urmat cel adresat oamenilor. Intre doua dealuri insorite care au fost pana la urma 'impadurite' cu vie, profesorul Ernest Budes si prietenii sai sculptori, ceramisti si pictori, au construit – era pe la inceputurile boom-ului imobiliar – un sat neolitic la izvoarele de la Ulmi.

In toamna lui 2010 via implineste 4 ani, varsta la care se considera ca o vie devine 'majora', pregatita sa rodeasca deplin. Satul neolitic nu a beneficiat insa de boom-ul imobiliar ce a urmat, ba dimpotriva. Se vede ca timpul lui nu a venit inca.

Tabara de ceramica 'Satul neolitic':
Ernest Budes, Monica Morariu, Catalina Danila, Adela Bonat, Romana Cucu, Aniela Ovadiuc, Teona Capitanu, Ioana Budes
(Universitatea de Arta din Bucuresti)

Inger Parc pe malul Dunarii: 
Maria Cioata si David Olteanu (ceramisti)
Ilie Cioarta (pictor)
Virgil Constantin Scripcariu (sculptura in lemn)
Nicolae Stoica (sculpura in lemn)
si Mihai Buculei (sculptura in lemn)

Virgil Constantin Scripcariu, 'Inger'

Ernest Budes in satul neolitic

Nicolae Stoica, Ingerul cu parapanta

Presa vremii:
Observator Cultural, Sept. 2002

about 'inger parc'

The surroundings of the port became the setting for the Angel Park project, initiated in the summer of 2002 by Mircea Dinescu and a group of friends, sculptors and ceramic artists, soon after the old administrative house of the port was fully rebuilt.

The idea was a reaction to the nation-wide hysteria surrounding the controversial Dracula Parc project, which was being secretly negotiated and hotly debated in public at the time. the project was abandoned soon after and Dracula remained shrine-less. But the angels stayed.

‘We made the park to counter polemically with the Dracula Park project. This country was never in the full monopoly of the devil, at least at its peripheries, on the bank of the Danube, there may still be some angels left. Besides, it seems to me that building your 'national brand’ with angels could be a much better idea.

‘… it was dusk already when I saw seven horses – who still run around freely around here – stop in front of the house. For a while it appeared to me that they were looking at the sculptures of angels we put there, right by the water . I thought, you don’t see many people stop to look at angels anymore, but horses still do. And I said to myself, this is what I want to do here. Convince people to start looking a bit more at the angels”
Mircea Dinescu

After a sanctuary for angels, another was made for humans. Between two hills at the western edge of the village, in a spot with several ponds and natural springs called Ulmi (The Elms), where the oldest human settlement in the area was located several thousands of years ago, professor Ernest Budes and his friends (sculptors, painters, ceramic artists) built a small Neolithic village, with 6 types of huts made from earth and reed, painted with bright colours and prehistoric motifs, and endowed with all the clay pottery of the day.

And to finish the job, the two surrounding hills, facing south toward the summer sun and the Danube breeze, were planted with vinyards in 2006. The vinyard will reach maturity in the autumn of 2010 but the first Neolithic village of the 21st century didn’t flourish in the housing bubble that followed. Its time is yet to come.