TRISTAN TZARA, MARCEL IANCU ȘI FASCINAȚIA DADAISTĂ PENTRU RECICLAREA MĂȘTILOR
Tristan Tzara, Marcel Iancu and the Dada Fascination for the Recycling of Masks

Summary/Abstract: When going trough the story of Dada movement, one can notice the constant presence of masks, on different theatrical and artistic occasions. From the very beginning, at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, they brought a new dimension to the poetical discourse of the young artists. The strong emotional and aesthetic impact on the audience as well as on the ”actors” who danced and embodied the characters who were given birth to through these masks, encouraged a continuous, creative recycling of archaic formulas in new forms and images. The present paper retraces the origins of these Avant-guard masks back to the so called “primitive” African ritual masks, for which Tristan Tzara developed a passion, but also back to the Romanian archaic masks, still present in the folkloric para-dramatic rituals in the Romanian villages, which seem to have represented an important source of inspiration for Marcel Ianco and his creations.

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