A painting from the permanent collection of the National Museum of Arts of Moldova is digitized as part of an exhibition mounted by the House of European History in Brussels. The Museum offered the European Parliament a license allowing using the third part of the artistic value of the painting “Rain” by artist Ion Serbinov. The permanent exhibition “Views on Europe” that includes the Moldovan artist’s painting will be open to the public during five years, IPN reports.
According to extracts of the National Museum of Arts of Moldova, the painting was bought from the author in 1993 for 150,000 coupons. “By the cooperation contract with our client – the European Parliament – we provided a nonexclusive license for the use of one third of the artistic value of the painting, which enables to print postcards, souvenirs, photographs published in the specialty media. It also enables to include the image in the personalized databases or broadly accessible indexes, to digitize, compress or decompress the image and to also store and archive it in the database of the House of European History in Brussels after the exhibition is closed. We are ready to establish cultural partnerships with institutions from outside the country, which can help us to promote the artistic heritage and to promote the artists from Moldova. Our exhibitions are in tandem with the European ones. Arts means moving naturally on the path of renewals,” said the Museum’s director general Tudor Zbârnea.
Contacted by IPN for details, the wife of artist Ion Serbinov, Maria Cheptănaru-Serbinov, said the painter does not feel very well now. “He is now reading a lot of criticism books and collecting facts. Owing to the disease, he cannot paint and cannot speak clearly. The chosen work transmits the state of nature in a field, showing clouds that bring rain in a sunflower field. Even if the nudes are his specialty, my husband loves landscapes, flowers, which make the range of colors shudder. His originality as an artist resides in the absence of a particular style. His goal is to transmit the state of nature, feelings, senses, light through colors,” stated painter Maria Cheptănaru-Serbinov.
Ion Serbinov was born in Cahul in 1946 and is a graduate of “Ilya Repin” Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He has worked as a professor at the Academy of Music, Theater and Plastic Arts in Chisinau. He was awarded the tile of Emeritus Master of Arts of the Republic of Moldova and is highly praised in national and international galleries.
