Exhibition to commemorate 100th birthday anniversary of Moldovan painter inaugurated in Chisinau

Chisinau, 22 November /MOLDPRES/ - A commemorative exhibition dedicated to a fine artist, Mihail Grecu, laureate of State Prize, holder of Order of the Republic, honorary member of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences (ASM), who would have turned 100, was inaugurated at the National Art Museum today.  
The exhibition displays 60 works made by Grecu in the period 1956-1987.
Contacted by MOLDPRES, the director of the National Art Museum, Tudor Zbirnea, has said that the exhibition comprises the three stages of the works of the greatest fine artist of Moldova from the second half of the 20th century.   
Attending the event, Culture Minister Monica Babuc noted that the 2016 had been declared Mihail Grecu Year in Moldova. This is an extra proof that the artist was a famous name in the fine arts of Moldova.  
Mihail Grecu was born in the Faraonovka village, Starokazacie county, southern Bessarabia, on 22 November 1916. In 1928-1937, Grecu studied at the Normal School from Catatea Alba (now Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Ukraine), led by Nicolae Tane. In 1937-1940, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from Bucharest. In 1940, Grecu was transferred to Bessarabia along with his wife Esfira Bric, a fellow from the Art Academy. Mihail Grecu studied at the Chisinau-based Fine Arts School, the class of professor M. Gamburd. In 1978, Grecu was awarded the State Prize of the Moldovan Soviet Socialist Republic.    
In 1990, Mihai Grecu became laureate of the State Prize of the USSR in the fine arts sector and in 1991 he got the Grand Prize of Romania’s Culture Ministry within Moldova’s Saloons. In 1992, Grecu was awarded the Order of the Republic and the title of honorary member of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences. Mihai Grecu died on 9 April 1998.     
The exhibition will be opened till 8 January 2017.
(Reporter N. Roibu, editor M. Jantovan)