Artist Edward Maidenberg exhibits a lifetime of work

On the occasion of his 50th birth anniversary, the artist, designer and author Edward Maidenberg exhibited over 60 at the Constantin Brancusi Center. The earliest work on display is a painting done at the age of 15, Info-Prim Neo reports. Edward Maidenberg is a well-known book illustrator. At the age of 20 he debuted with a graphics exhibition, after which he started working with publishing houses in the country, contributing for children's books with Arabic, occidental and Russian tales as well as books written by such authors like Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky and Spiridon Vangheli. “I illustrated nearly 100 books. The most impressive illustrations I think were the Arabic ones, like those in the One Thousand and One Nights. I also enjoyed making illustrations for Spiridon Vangheli into which I put my heart and sole”, says the artist. His work also includes nearly 500 illustrations to the books “The Jungle”, “Fables”, “Book for Reading and Thinking”. “In some illustrations I combine my memories with fantasy. At times I don't know what to draw exactly so I let my ideas run wild”, says Edward Maidenberg. Artist Gheorghe Vrabie says Edward Maidenberg is one of the most fascinating artist for his ability to paint in so many styles yet so familiarly. “The animals, the birds, the insects in his works have human traits, he harmonizes them so very well that those beings become humanized”, says Gheorghe Vrabie. Ghenadie Jalba, the chairman of the Plastic Artists Union, was impressed by Edward Maidenberg's Arabic-themed illustrations, the way their characters “resemble the painter”. The exhibition will run through May 9.