The train engine dubbed HORA (the Romanian for “ring dance”), painted with motifs taken from Romanian traditional garments, this Wednesday rolled off on its first trip at the head of a seaside bound “Sun Train”; these special trains, which provide in the summer season connections from all over Romania to the Black Sea coast and carry an average of 18,500 tourists daily.
Part of a wide-range campaign the costs of which amount to a minimum of 250,000 euros, the project Moving Art — HORA promotes Romanian traditions in a distinctive way, bringing them to public attention in an unconventional and attractive form.
“It was a very demanding project. (…) The core idea was to find an unconventional painting surface. My concept met halfway with the values of passenger rail company CFR Calatori and those of Policolor, and that’s how HORA was born, where each pair of dancers is a stylized representation of a folk costume from a historic region of Romania,” visual artist Carmen Nistor, the author of the colorful project, declared today. More…