NEW HOPE, Roman Tolici’s latest solo exhibition, which has toured Brașov, Timișoara, Bucharest, Sibiu, and Tulcea, can be visited at the National Art Museum of Moldova until September 20, 2026. Bringing together works created over the past four years, the exhibition reflects on a world shaped by accelerated change, uncertainty, and the fragile persistence of hope.
Roman Tolici’s recent paintings seek “the place of man in the history of the Earth, not of humankind,” shifting the perspective away from anthropocentrism toward a broader understanding of time, nature, and reality. The series moves between the intimate scale of people viewed as a community and a larger dystopian universe populated by oversized landscapes, abandoned objects, and symbolic forms that become part of the visual mythologies of the present.
Works such as A Bar At The Hubrica (Last Day), New Hope 7, New Hope 8, New Hope 9, and Moon’s Lies explore distorted realities, post-truth, ecological collapse, and the possibility of renewal through painting. At the heart of the exhibition lies the idea of hope as something fragile, paradoxical, and necessary—not as a simple answer, but as a temporary suspension between what has ended and what is yet to come.
Roman Tolici is known for his distinctive visual language, situated at the intersection of photographic realism and subtle surrealism. His practice explores the tension between truth, memory, landscape, and the emotional condition of the present.
