Temporary Exhibitions
On Wednesday, August 6, at 4:00 PM, the National Museum of Art of Moldova will inaugurate the solo exhibition of visual artist Dumitru Verdianu. You are warmly invited to attend this event!
The exhibition presents works of sculpture, graphic art, and painting by Dumitru Verdianu.
Dumitru Verdianu, born in 1954 in the city of Ungheni, studied at the Republican School of Fine Arts “I. Repin” (currently the “Al. Plămădeală” College of Fine Arts) in Chișinău (1972–1976), and in 1982 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg. Between 2000 and 2004, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, in the class of Professor Michelangelo Pistoletto, and in 2004 he earned the academic title Magister Artius.
He is a member of the Unions of Visual Artists in the Republic of Moldova, Russia, and Austria.
The artist has been awarded the Ionel Jianu Prize of the Romanian-American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994), the silver medal (2006), and the gold medal (2007, 2009) at the M.C.A. Art Salon in Cannes, France. At the “Salons of Moldova,” he received the Sculpture Prize from the Chișinău City Hall (2000), and in 2021 he was awarded the honorary title “Master of Art.”
Since 1976, he has participated in over 200 national and international exhibitions and symposia, and has led creative workshops in various countries.
His works are exhibited in museums and public spaces, as well as in galleries and private collections in Moldova, Romania, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, France, Sweden, Israel, and Russia.
He is an honorary citizen of Ungheni. He has participated in seven sculpture camps, presenting four personal exhibitions in his hometown.
Dumitru Verdianu’s oeuvre comprises distinctive works that form, essentially, a bridge between experiences and styles, confirming that the development of a personalized sculptural vocabulary is a complex and versatile process. This vocabulary includes a wide range of materials and a special sensitivity to their intrinsic qualities. In each piece—whether in bronze, wood, or marble—one observes a constant exploration of “absence” within “presence,” aiming to give form a vast perspective...
...In bronze or marble, Dumitru Verdianu favors slow, undulating curves, fluid surfaces, and forms that seem to grow from their bases like graceful ferns. His wheels—with spokes like rays, and life spinning around them in a cycle of beginning and end—evoke the perfection of the whole and the power of regeneration. Returning to the archetype, there is a certainty that the artist draws nourishment from our ancestral heritage and from the blend of customs and beliefs of this people.
...His drawings introduce the viewer to the realm of the pure line, where gesture flows in a soulful abstraction, yet continues to perpetuate elements of the real. The suggestion is revealing—the sculptor’s works forsake heavy ostentation and sterility, taking on a kind of pictorial sensuality. The drawing does not accompany the sculpture to justify or clarify it, but rather to instill in the viewer a surplus of pure, sincere emotion characteristic of authentic creation.
Dumitru Verdianu articulates a body of work with a strong identity in the European space and beyond. Through his unique intuition and intelligence, the artist manages to fuse in his works the most authentic values of Romanian tradition. He demonstrates a vast capacity to absorb and discern artistic culture, working tirelessly to preserve through art his original, enduring visual language—perennial in form, unaltered in spirit.
Maria Bilașevschi, PhD in Visual Arts
