Costinești Sculpture Camp

Concrete wings

It advances by standing, receives by giving, implacable apparition, in a place that knows the aridity of sand. Its walls are unwritten, but they are not dead, they are waiting, receiving - support for the unwritten thought. It can be read as a labyrinth, a call to initiation.[....] This work is a labyrinth with wings, pleading wings that have broken under the burden of pain, pain hovering over an entire space as large as a continent of pain, with people with muzzles, with millstones tied to their feet, with people who saw and did not understand what they saw, heard and did not understand what they heard, the drama of a period not yet captured in a systematized presentation.
Silvia Radu, on her abstract composition "Ambient", Costinești

Vestiges of the time when art organized the territory sprout today in Costinești from piles of rubbish and rubble. Amid the sculptures left by the indifferent present, prey to the fury of nature and human ignorance,

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