Historian and art critic, university professor at The Faculty of Art and Design at The West-ern University of Timişoara, AICA member since 2000 and vice-president of AICA-Romania during 2012-2020; board member for the online American magazine ARTMargins during 2000-2010. Pintilie wrote numerous studies and articles on Romanian as well as cen-tral-European modern and contemporary art, published in various books, catalogues and ar-tistic publications in Romania and broad. Independent curator for many local and interna-tional projects and art exhibitions.
The retrospective exhibition recently opened at MNAC casts a spotlight on Ion Grigorescu, one of the most interesting and provocative artists of the last five decades in Romanian art.