Plastic artist Glebus Sainciuc turns 90

A personal exhibition dedicated to the 90th birth anniversary of plastic artist Glebus Sainciuc was opened at the Exhibitions Center “Constantin Brancusi” in Chisinau on Tuesday evening. On the same day, the Supreme Council for Science and Technological Development of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova conferred the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on the artist, Info-Prim Neo reports. The big exhibitions hall of the Center was full of guests and admirers of Master Glebus Sainciuc, who sang together “Happy Birthday!”. The celebrated painter Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu and different persons came to congratulate the artist and his wife with flowers and presents. All said that the master’s works gladden their hearts. The exhibition contains over 100 works, including portraits and a large collection of masks from papier mâché, which are presented by Glebus Sainciuc in an original way and with subtle humor. The masks represent Grigore Vieru, Aureliu Busuioc, Dumitru Matcovschi, Gheorghe Vrabie, Ion Druta, Luciano Pavarotti and others. “This exhibition includes everything one can say about Glebus Sainciuc,” said Tudor Braga, director of the Exhibitions Center “Constantin Brancusi”. “I have admired Glebus Sainciuc’s works since I was a child. Last year, I had the occasion of visiting the master’s workshop, where there was staged a show with masks. Glebus Sainciuc is young in his thoughts, spirit and actions. Few artists could outstrip him. We hope to come together at the master’s 100th anniversary!” said mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca, who resigned from the post for the period of the electoral campaign. The scientific community owes Glebus Sainciuc a collection of articles about his greatest achievements, said Mariana Slapac, vice president of the Academy of Sciences. “We celebrate an extraordinary man. The master and his wife Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu made their debut in the play “The Curtains Remain Open” at Luceafarul Theater in 1965. They made the masks and the scenery,” said former Minister of Culture, director Ion Ungureanu. “The Sainciuc dynasty is unique in the cultural Bessarabia. Now that he reached this age, Glebus Sainciuc knows that life only starts.” Writer Ion Druta wrote an essay about Glebus Sainciuc titled “Light on the Chroniclers’ Street” that was read at the festivity where there was conferred the Doctor Honoris Causa title. Students of the arts school “Waldorf” taught by Mihai Seremet staged a play with masks. The exhibition of paintings, graphic works and works of sculpture will be open until August 9. Master Glebus Sainciuc was born in Chisinau on July 19, 1919. He forms part of the generation of recognized painters who, at the end of the 1950 – the beginning of the 1960 deviated from the principles of the socialist realism, together with Mihai Grecu, Valentina Rusu-Ciobanu, Igor Vieru, Ada Zevin and Eleonora Romanescu.