Ion Șinca · Exhibition 2002IS-0064
The Road to Rucăreni
Drumul spre Rucăreni
2002 · oil on canvas · 40 × 32 cm
A cream-white road descends from the centre towards the lower right corner, cutting through ground churned with bushes and boulders painted in blue-green, grey and pink. Above it, at the right, a large tree opens its crown into a mass of dark green, orange and turquoise, with curved strokes that turn around the trunk. At the left the vegetation thins into a pale blue-grey, and at the upper corner two slender young trees can be made out. A few crimson accents appear at the base of the composition. The surface is worked in thin paint with fluid transitions between patches; recognition of the motif gradually yields to the rhythm of colour.
The Marcel Bejgu collection · in the 2002 exhibition: “Fantasmă spre Rucăreni” · Rucăreni is a village in Soveja commune, Vrancea County. The road is the one he took through Vrancea to school as a young man — in those years he taught drawing at the Nereju General School (1974—1975). The painting is from 2002: he painted the road from memory, almost thirty years later. Established by the family, August 2026.
- Where it is today
- The studio at the „Ion Creangă” school
- Exhibited
- 2002
How to cite
Ion Șinca, „The Road to Rucăreni” (Drumul spre Rucăreni), 2002. Ion Șinca Archive, IS-0064. https://ionsinca.ro/en/artwork/drumul-spre-rucareni-2002/
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