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It took the artists Nicolai Ischimji and Valerii Moshkov 25 years of hard work and several tons of scrap-metal and industrial waste to sculpt this unique art installation of European significance – the outdoor sculpture complex “Rugina & Co” – “РЖАвЧИНАХ” (“RustInRanks”). The exhibition of sculptures is organically integrated into the landscape and includes pieces such as “Purgatory”, “Bureaucratic Apparatus”, “The Shepherd”, “Iron Curtain” – a vivid three-dimensional contemplation on the age of totalitarianism and industrialization.

“Rugina” by any account is a major phenomenon of Moldova’s contemporary art: this sculptural complex is a testimony to the conceptual power and a vast creative potential of its artists. Moreover, it is a true blueprint of non-conformity, an example of selfless service to the ideals of art and expressional freedom in the conditions of underground under a totalitarian regime, a powerful manifesto of intellectual independence and global mentality. VIA

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