Medeea

Description

Executed in: 2025
Medium: patinated bronze
Size: 60 x 14 x 14 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Romania

Location

Bucharest, Romania

Price realised €4,636

Estimate €3,500 - €5,000

Description

Vladlen Babcinețchi stands among the contemporary Eastern European sculptors whose practice unites technical precision with a reflective exploration of matter and form. Educated in Iași under the guidance of sculptor Ilie Bostan at the Octav Bancilă College of Arts and later at the George Enescu National University of Arts, he refined an approach grounded in academic discipline yet open to experimentation. His doctoral studies at the Gheorghe Asachi University, supervised by Professor Stan Mitu, culminated in the theoretical monograph Nautilus. A Study of Proportions on the Movement of the Human Body, where he reinterprets classical systems of proportion through a study of motion and organic structure.

Postdoctoral fellowships in Riga and Kutaisi extended his intellectual and artistic perspective, deepening his engagement with European sculptural modernism and its diverse materials. His work ranges from monumental public commissions to more intimate figural studies, maintaining a dialogue between control and expressive freedom. Among his public sculptures, the statues of Stephen the Great in Tomești and of Ovid in Ovidiu reveal a disciplined sense of composition and symbolic gravity, while his smaller works evoke the tactile and psychological resonance of form.

A member of both the Artists’ Union of the Republic of Moldova and of Romania, Babcinețchi has exhibited in Chișinău, Iași, and Lisbon, and his works are held in public and private collections across Europe and Asia. His sculptural language oscillates between modern experiment and the persistence of archetypal imagery, situating his practice within a wider European discourse on proportion, materiality, and the enduring vitality of the human form. He lives and works in Iași, Romania.

Exhibitions

"Romanian Sculptors’ Month" Exhibition, Union Museum, Iași, 19 February – 19 March 2025

"Romanian Creative Week" Exhibition, Union Museum, Iași, 2025

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