Thinker

A human figure trapped between geometric volumes. The head, the one who thinks, appears partially, as if looking from inside the stone, suggesting, as it were, that thinking is not free, but constrained, forced to manifest itself in a limited space. It is the thinking of contemporary man, trapped between rules, structures, systems.

We distinguish, in Mihai Damian's The Thinker, rather an inner face. The face does not appear frontally, it does not communicate directly with the viewer. It is an inner, silent, introspective thought. It does not seek attention, but meaning.

The expression of the gaze is calm and expresses concentration.

The sculpture rises on a stable vertical axis, showing that the Thinker from Ungheni is not collapsed, but stands upright, even if limited. In this case, we are suggested an ethic of resistance, with the help of which the artist wants to tell us that, even in the absence of freedom, to think means to remain upright and dignified.