MOLDPRES News Agency – Plastic artist Andrei Mudrea would have turned 70 today

Chisinau, April 29 /MOLDPRES/. The late plastic artist Andrei Mudrea, Master of Art, laureate of the Youth Award and the National Award, would have turned 70 today, informs MOLDPRES.

Requested by the agency, the vice-president of the Union of Plastic Artists from Moldova, Dumitru Bolboceanu, mentioned that Andrei Mudrea was one of the best artists from us. “Andrei Mudrea had a rich artistic and exhibition experience. He attended the workshop of master Mihai Grecu, who changed his vision in art. Having an academic training, from the first works he came to art with his own vision. He worked very hard. He liked to experiment and this desire of his to exploit color in different techniques brought him to a very good result. He exhibited in many art galleries and museums, and his works entered the collections of those institutions. He participated in the development of the State Coat of Arms”, emphasized Dumitru Bolboceanu.

For his part, the art critic Tudor Stăvilă, the author of the introductory study of the “Andrei Mudrea” Album, emphasized that the artist’s works, published in the first decade of activity (1975-1985), mark an evolution that took place under the influence of Mihail Grecu’s creation . “The following decade (1985-1995) radically changed the author’s conceptual orientations. The compositional structure also changes, the painting itself becoming an active unfolding of form that includes several levels within itself. The next step in the professional formation of the plastic artist (1990-1995) is directly related to universal, general human values. Mythology, the subjects of the Old and New Testaments become a considerable support in deepening the reasons and reflecting them in an original, individual way”, stressed Tudor Stăvilă.

Andrei Mudrea was born on April 29, 1954 in the village of Mitocul Vechi, Orhei district. From 1969 to 1973, he studied at the School of Fine Arts “I. Repin”, currently the Republican College of Fine Arts “Alexandru Plămădeala” from Chisinau. Since 1975, he has been working and studying painting in Mihai Grecu’s studio. Starting from 1975 and until 1985, he was a teacher at the School of Fine Arts for children in the city of Orhei. In 1978 he made his debut with the paintings “Mama” and “Parental House” (mixed technique, white on white), and since 1978 he has participated in all the exhibitions organized by the Union of Visual Artists from the Republic of Moldova.

In 1983, Andrei Mudrea’s first personal exhibition took place in Chisinau. In 1988 he went with his first personal exhibition to Moscow (RSFSR). In 1989 he opened a new personal exhibition in Chisinau, and in 1990 he went to Paris (France) with his first personal exhibition. In 1994 he had a new personal exhibition in Chisinau, after which, in 1995, two personal exhibitions follow in France: one in Paris, another in Saint-Malo. In 1999, he returned with the personal exhibition “And God Created Woman…”, organized at the National Art Museum of Moldova. In the same place, in 2000, the personal exhibition with the title “The Separation of Light from Darkness” took place. In 2001 and 2002 he organized another personal exhibition in Chisinau, after which he returned in 2004 with the exhibition “Universul Luminii”, opened at the “Constantin Brâncusi” Exhibition Center of the UAP.

Afterwards, he returned once every five years with solo exhibitions in which he presented only his new works and cycles. Thus, in 2009, the personal exhibition “Clipe de Lumină” took place at the “Brâncusi” Center. In 2011 he inaugurated the personal exhibition “Enigme” at the “Artium” gallery in Shopping Moldova, and in 2014 the personal exhibition “Metamorphoses of Light” took place at the “Brâncusi” Center. In 2018 he participated with the personal exhibition “The Metamorphoses of Light” at the Council of Europe, the “Agora” building in Strasbourg (France), and in 2019 he returned with the personal exhibition with the generic “Rays of Light” at the Exhibition Center “Constantin Brâncusi”. He was awarded the Youth Award, the National Award and the honorary title “Master of Art”, as well as several national and international awards.

Andrei Mudrea died on January 15, 2022, at the age of 67, following an incurable disease. He was buried at the Central Cemetery in Armeneasca Street in Chisinau.

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