Saint Mary at the temple

The artist wanted to highlight the artistic and Christian heritage of Bukovina, especially that of the Sucevita and Moldovița monasteries. Saint Mary appears in the pre-Christian temple, accompanied by various people inside it. The work is a development of a long-term project,

The sculptor addresses the issue of positive and negative, good and evil... The work renders an archetypal image. Saint Mary in the pre-Christian temple is a synthesis between old and new. The idea of placing Saint Mary in a pre-Christian temple produces an intentional tension.

We are dealing with a meditation on the continuity of sacredness. Mary appears as a bridge between two worlds: the previous tradition and the Christian revelation. The figures seem embedded in the same stone body: they are not separate, but coexist in a single field, like layers of history.