Virgil Scripcariu premieres the installation “VASTITAS – What will be left behind us?”

Sculptor Virgil Scripcariu presents the artistic installation “VASTITAS – What will remain behind us?” for the first time during the Romanian Design Week.

The opening will take place on Monday, May 15, at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, starting at 6 p.m.

The artistic intervention, made up of dozens of oversized thistles carved in wood, will be mounted outdoors and will occupy an area of ​​100 m2. The sculptural objects made of wood, with heights between 2-3 meters, are fixed in solid wood trunks, outlining the image of a forest destroyed and invaded by a desolate vegetation.

A 12 meter long installation will be suspended above the thistle forest, made up of the structures of two rowing boats wrapped in plastic. The ancestral craft, containing in itself the idea of ​​travel but also of performance, is suffocated by the products of a pseudo-civilization.

VASTITAS (in Latin devastation) is also an effort to raise awareness of the huge expanses compromised by man and the infinite space that surrounds the planet.
Installed outdoors, the installation will allow visitors to explore the components of the work.

Virgil SCRIPCARIU (b. 1974) is one of the best-known Romanian sculptors of his generation. He graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, in the class of the famous Romanian sculptor Vasile Gorduz. His artistic practice is anchored in the protection and valorization of cultural heritage.

He has sculpture works in public spaces in Bucharest, Iași, Timișoara and numerous participations in important design and architecture events such as Europalia, Venice Architecture Biennale, Lemn.ro/MNAC 2010, Holon/Israel, Art15/London.

Virgil Scripcariu lives with his family in the village of Piscu, Ilfov county, where he coordinates the program of educational activities through art within the Muzeul-Atelier Școala de la Piscu, which he founded together with his wife, the art historian Adriana Scripcariu.

The artistic installation can be visited until May 26 at the “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism in Academiei street no. 18-20, Bucharest.

Photo credit: Ionuț Macri

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