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The work In Memoriam. In Memory of the Heroes Who Fell at the Nistru (1992) was developed within the Center for Culture and Military History and published under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Moldova, the Bureau for Reintegration, and the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Moldova. Authors: Gheorghe Bălan, Vitalie Ciobanu, Gheorghe Cojocaru.

This work provides a retrospective of the events that led to the outbreak of the war on the Nistru, accompanied by photographs of the heroes who lost their lives in the battles to defend the independence and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova.

On March 2, 1992, the political conflict in the Nistru region escalated into a true fratricidal war. Under the fabricated pretext of "defending Russia's southern borders," political adventurers from the former Soviet metropolis encouraged Transnistrian separatism by arming secessionist paramilitary groups. At the same time, thousands of mercenary Cossacks and prisoners released early from jails, along with tanks and missiles, were sent against Independent Moldova, in a desperate attempt to revive the fallen empire.

Russia's undeclared war against the Republic of Moldova left behind hundreds of dead and wounded, shattered families, and villages in ruins. More than 50,000 peaceful residents from the conflict zone were forced to flee their homes, seeking refuge from the horrors of war.

For the sake of freedom and the future, Moldova's defenders faced death, enduring the hardships and humiliations of war.

During the Nistru war, 198 soldiers of the National Army and 89 personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs lost their lives, while 40 combatants went missing without a trace, and nearly 300 were left disabled.

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PIETRO FINELLI „NOIR TIME”

15 September - 15 October 2018

The exhibition proposes to the visitor a reflection on art and creativity of Italian artist Pietro Finelli.

The main idea of the exhibition is the dialogue between painting and cinema, life and cinema, especially "Noir" films, and Finelli being fascinated by this classic American movie. His interest in cinematography is based on a cognitive-visual process, which is increasingly triggered by this expressive environment through black and white contrasts. The artist is literally caught by this atypical way of focusing primarily on vision rather than on the subject. With some brushes on screen, Pietro Finelli creates the dark atmosphere of the mysterious "Noir" films from 1940-1950. The obscure obsession, the dark rooms, the mysterious nocturnal views of the anonymous cities, the light and the shadow, the foolish people - all these details strengthen the effect of alienation.

Pietro Finelli (1957) is a narrator of stories built on fragments of existence, motivated by the need to seek a deeper identity, a so-called "inherent substrate" that brings back the fullness of life. Finelli's art is an iconography of intuition that connects different levels of expression and repeatedly dissolves the boundaries between reality and illusion. In this way, the viewer is free to sink into an infinite sequence of meanings that are interconnected in a non-terminal process.

Pietro Finelli's work has been exhibited in national and international galleries and museums, including the New York MC Gallery, Il Ponte Contemporanea in Rome, Galerie Pack in Milan, Castel Nuovo Museum in Naples, the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum in Geneva, The FJKlemm Foundation in Buenos Aires, the Jacques Cerami Gallery in Belgium, the VELAN Contemporary Art Center in Turin, Italy.

Display period: 15 September - 15 October 2018.
Curator: Giovanni Iovane.