The Presidential Office offers sincere condolences to the family of renowned artist Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu, to her son Lică Sainciuc and to all those who loved her and appreciated her work. The artist died on November 1, IPN reports.
“It is a huge loss for the Republic of Moldova. Painter Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu, one of the most known and beloved plastic artists in our country, who lived the tumultuous 20th century and the history of this land, was a creator who had the resolve to follow her path and view,” says the obituary published by the Presidential Office.
“Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu painted Moldova in bright and clear colors, in people’s faces, in landscapes and dead nature compositions. The artist’s paintings are delicate and fine as she was – kind, modest, with a timid smile and with a brought look hidden behind eyeglasses. After decades of work in the workshop and especially after the death of her husband, plastic artist Glebus Sainciuc, Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu withdrew from public life and spent her last years in their old house in the historical Chisinau.”
Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu was born in Chisinau on October 28, 1920. She studied in Iasi. In spite of the ideological pressure she felt throughout most of her career, Valentina Rusu Ciobanu managed to preserve the individuality of her artistic discourse and was even subsequently awarded notable governmental distinctions, such as the Republic of Moldova National Award for Literature, Art and Architecture; the honorary title People’s Visual Artist; the Medal of the Republic. She also became an Honorary Citizen of the City of Chisinau and was awarded, by a decree of the Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Grand Officer.
The artist mounted multiple exhibitions in the country and abroad, in Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Canada, Syria, Iraq, France. Her works were exhibited at the National Museum of Arts of Moldova that keeps an important collection of the artist’s paintings, at the Exhibitions Center “Constantin Brâncuși”, at the National Library of the Republic of Moldova. Her paintings can be seen in art galleries in many countries.
