În sala «Palade», printre îngeri și tăceri

Abstract

The present work constitutes a comparative hermeneutics of the
exhibition ‘Among Angels’, presented by Liviu Șoptelea in the ‘Palade’ Hall
of the ‘Vasile Pârvan’ Museum in Bârlad. The analysis focuses on three of
the exhibited works, titled: ‘Seen-Unseen’, ‘Wandering Angel’, and ‘Of
Course, the Last Flutter Too Shall Vanish’. A thematic study of the
exhibition—particularly of these three pieces-revealed how the artist
reinterpreted angelic iconography in a contemporary key, transforming the
museum space into a site of meditation on memory, the sacred, and the human
condition. Through an approach combining art history with visual
anthropology, the dialogue between Christian tradition and postmodern
artistic languages is highlighted, underscoring Șoptelea’s distinct position in
the Romanian art scene and placing him in conversation with other great
masters of angelic representation, such as Anselm Kiefer and Marc Chagall.