Exhibition of pictures of peasants in Romanian art inaugurated at Chisinau-based exhibition centre

Chisinau, 22 March /MOLDPRES/ - An exhibition dedicated to a painter from the Maramures region of Romania, Traian Bilțiu-Dăncuș (1899-1974), titled, Pictures of peasants in the Romanian art, reaches Chisinau, after the event’s great success at the Art Safari exhibition in Bucharest. The exhibition was inaugurated at the Constantin Brancusi Exhibition Centre of Moldova’s Fine Artists’ Union (UAP).      

All works selected are part of the collection of the Maramures Museum from Sighetu Marmației, Romania, and shows paintings of peasants and the life of villages, special in its simplicity.  The exhibition is staged with the support of the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau, in partnership with the Fine Artists’ Union of Moldova.   

Contacted by MOLDPRES, UAP head Florina Breazu said the exhibition had been held in Moldova for the first time ever and comprised 72 works of the departed Romanian fine artist.  

For her part, the director of the Mihai Eminescu Romanian Cultural Institute in Chisinau, Monica Babuc, said that this was a quite important exhibition, staged on the eve of the day of 27 March, when Bessarabia’s Union with Romania will be celebrated. ‘’We wanted to open a page of the Romanian space, which we know less here in Bessarabia, with the concerned traditions from the historical Maramures,’’ Monica Babuc noted.      

Traian Bilțiu-Dăncuș (1899-1974) is the first Romanian painter from Maramures with studies at the Bucharest-based National University of Arts. The originality and innovation of the fine artist were recognized during his career and he had a significant contribution to the evolution of art.    

The exhibition will be open till 7 April.