Friendship, Costion Nicolescu used to say, is not only among the living, but also remains between the living and those who have departed. Horia Bernea was one of Costion's important friends. So it's hard to think it was a coincidence that the opening of the exhibition "Colored Wings" at the Ipotești Memorial today, August 2, 2026, took place precisely in the "Horia Bernea" hall. Because the opening brought together other friends of Costion, befriended by Costion himself after his passing to the Lord: Cosmina Dragomir, Anca Stanciu, and Șerban Madgearu.
After the event, a friend of Cosmina's from Belgium told me: “Sometimes, the world is more beautiful. Today, the world was more beautiful!”
The poem "Colored Wings," which also gave the exhibition its title, was added to the volume of verses "Drops of Death," dedicated to Costion, after, from beyond, Costion mediated the completion of the verses with Cosmina's paintings, through a-a miracle worthy of a Paterikon...
Colored Wings
With a wing of color
and a wing of word
the book before you
tried to fly
On a page, a poem had fallen asleep
A poem was searching for its color
on another page
A bird was flying like a butterfly
tropical
From a poem, another flight
was trying to awaken
a sleeping book
A covered song
With the duvet
had woken up and was flapping colored wings
A key to the door
of a soul
turned
and flew to unlock
the door of another soul
The book was alive
and there were in it
particles of light
and waves
and colored wings
and souls
and songs
that demanded to be freed
and dreams, even frightened dreams
so they wouldn't be de-winged
by some amorphous and prosaic
reality
I closed the book
and I heard the music
It wasn't coming from words
but from the drawings
with wings, with butterflies, with birds, and with souls
of
Cosmina.
Șerban Madgearu