About 180 works by plastic artists from 27 states were displayed at the Exhibitions Center “Constantin Brancusi” within the fourth International Painting Biennial Exhibition. Tudor Zbarnea, director of the National Museum of Arts, which is the event’s organizer, said the jury was strict when assessing the works, but imposed no limits in terms of theme or size. Thus, the exhibited works vary by theme and size. Some of them are several meters in height or width, IPN reports.
“The International Painting Biennale Chisinau 2015 claims more determinedly a place of prestige on the cultural stage of the international public area of visual arts. It is a large-scale cultural event that attracts an increasing number of valuable painters from abroad, becoming thus a channel of international communication,” stated Tudor Zbarnea.
Minister of Culture Monica Babuc, said this year’s Biennial Exhibition, as the previous ones, distinguishes itself by quality and by an extended international cultural-artistic context. The presented works hold interest owing to the artistic procedures used to pain them, the current esthetic trends and the freedom in expression. This competitive event is a platform for intercultural communication between artists without which the contemporary plastic arts do not have prospects.
The Top Prize of the exhibition went to the Mongolian plastic artist Otgonbayar Ershuu for the work “Noise of hooves”. The first prize was awarded to Romanian painter Mihai Perca, while the second prize to Moldovan artist Irina Viscu, who settled in the U.S. The Ministry of Culture’s excellence diplomas were offered to the plastic artists from the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Romania and the U.S. The Art Museum Trophy went to sculptor Ioan Grecu and Romanian painter Gabriela Culic. This prize enables them to mount a personal exhibition at the National Museum of Arts of Moldova.
