Moldovan acting PM attends launch of volume signed by departed painter
11:51 | 17.06.2021 Category: Official
Chisinau, 17 June /MOLDPRES/ - Acting Prime Minister Aureliu Ciocoi has attended the launch of a volume of works by painter Igor Vieru, titled Album. A film director, Roland Vieru, the son of the book illustrator, took care of the appearance of this volume. An exhibition of eight portraits of great poets and writers was inaugurated at the event. The portraits are part of fine arts collection of the Mihail Kogalniceanu National Literature Museum, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.
The edition appeared 33 years after the death of the art man Igor Vieru and comprises most of the works made during his life. On this occasion, acting PM Aureliu Ciocoi appreciated the high quality of the edition, noting that the pages of the volume of paintings contained history, emanated pride and many emotions of gratitude.
„This presentation is a proof of the fact that our land has a lot of talents who must be promoted not only inside the country, but also abroad. I believe that the obligation of each diplomatic mission of Moldova, which works abroad, is to have in its library at least several copies of this distinguished album, in order to present them to culture people from other states. And this is proof of the fact that we also have our Da Vinci, art people who, unfortunately, are quite poorly known abroad,’’ Aureliu Ciocoi said.
The acting prime minister also stressed the need to establish the office of cultural attaché at the diplomatic missions, so that the national and cultural values of Moldova’s nation are known and promoted outside the country.
Igor Vieru was born in Romania, Cernoleuca village (presently north of Moldova) on 23 December 1923. He passed away on 24 May 1988. Vieru was book painter and illustrator. Along with Grigore Vieru and Spiridon Vangheli, he suggested the nicest and the friendliest ABC-book from the former USSR to the first form children. Igor Vieru illustrated numerous books for children.
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