Reinterpretarea subiectelor sacre şi alte teme în creaţia sculptorului Valeriu Bâtca
New interpretations of sacred subjects and other themes in the creativity of the sculptor Valeriu Batca

Summary/Abstract: The representative modern sculptor Valeriu Batca was born in Chisinau in 1962 and began his career at the School-Studio of the Movie Theater Film Actor under the Moldova-Film in the capital city. His mentor, the Moldovan sculptor Dumitru Verdianu, helped him make his first steps in the world of art and supported him in his effort to revive the tradition of sculpting tombstones as a less standard approach in modern sculpture. The Pudostsky stone was the material from which these sculptures were created. It was mined from Valday to Lake Ladoga and used for construction in St. Petersburg. It is the characteristics of the Pudostsky stone, which determine the unique author’s style and his original ideas in the interpretation of the composition. Currently, Valeriu Batca’s relief compositions can be divided into three large cycles: Dialogues with God (1993-2008), Wine of Victory (1995- 2010), Yard Stories (2011). Along with the impressions that these stones produce, the author’s revelations in texts are of particular importance, as they reflect the sculptor’s ideas and feelings in relation to his works. In the vision of the sculptor Valeriu Batca, new interpretations of the techniques for creating medieval Moldavian tombstones are a new page of these achievements, an unpublished and significant one in its conceptual and artistic aspects.

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