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03 May 2019 / 19:30

An exhibition of the master Gheorghe Lungu, presented for the first time in Chisinau

Angels with long hands instead of wings, next to grotesque characters representing the degradation of this world: the spirit! That is the majority of the work done by the master Gheorghe Lungu from Iasi! At the National Art Museum of Moldova, the artist's personal exhibition was premiered, reports Moldova 1.

In Iasi where it was previously exhibited in an important art gallery, this selection of works had the generic title "I have a guardian angel". The testimony that in this world, Gheorghe Lungu, though looking for salvation in the divinity - has the courage to bring out the crisp faces, thus depicting ugliness, cowardice, lying.

"An artist who lives intensely what is happening today in society and in the noise we are in is no longer heard. Gheorghe Lungu comes with a certain irony. He is a man and an anxious artist with what is happening in society, we observe this face that is treated by him starting with Herod, his angels instead of wings, sometimes having hands that either clench or reject. At the same time, he also seeks his guardian angel in this aesthetic configuration," said the National Museum director, Tudor Zbârnea.

Through his compositions, Gheorghe Lungu gives the viewer the freedom to interpret the compositions.

"Those angels seemed to me somewhat twisted, reminded me of Munch's cry, of all the European tradition in which man faces nothingness or deity. It is not pleasant to see, it shocks your senses, it is like a small inner earthquake, little, a lot of these angels have told me," the writer Emilian Gălaicu-Păun mentioned.

Only 39 works were exhibited at the first personal exhibition of Master Gheorghe Lungu in Chisinau

"At first glance, it looks like a tough painting but, in fact, it is a very serious experience of the feelings of the current context in which we all are," said the National Museum director, Tudor Zbârnea.

Plastic artist with a rich exhibition record, holder of several awards of the Union of Fine Artists in Romania, Gheorghe Lungu continues the works in the workshop to bring to light other dimensions of reality.

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