Emil Cioran…affectionately referred to as the designer of despair, the aristocrat of doubt, the metaphysical dandy… Deceased in Paris in 1995, Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher in both French and Romanian, would have turned 100 on April 8, 2011. He was 26 when he left Romania, settling in France in 1937. After the censorship of his works by the communist regime, he abandoned his maternal tongue in 1947 and continued writing in French. Close to Eugène Ionesco, Mircea Eliade, Samuel Beckett, Henri Michaux or Gabriel Marcel, his philosophy was inspired by Nietzsche, Schopenhauer or even Kierkegaard.
Five photographers, Andrei Contiu, Gyuri Ilinca, Francisc Mraz, Silviu Pavel eand Raul Tanislav, of the Poetic Photography School, selected inspirational quotes, creating images showing their personal feelings about Cioran’s thoughts.
Until May 27
Institut Culturel Roumain
1, rue de l’Exposition
75007 Paris
