Glebus Sainciuc (1919 -2012)
The works of the art man Glebus Sainciuc (19.07.1919-16.10.2012) will hopefully survive in time and will endure in the era through their artistic power of persuasion. His talent was discovered early, still in his high school years, then cultivated through academic studies at the School of Fine Arts in Chisinau. Later, his studies at the Polytechnic Institute in Buсurești (1940-1947) were interrupted by the tragic events of the Second World War. After 1944 the painter settled in his hometown – Chisinau. In 1947 he became a member of the Union of Artists of the MSSR. Even his first thematic paintings, such as “The Big Table” (1960, oil), show the painter’s predilection for emotional treatment, with thousands of perceptible nuances of the characters’ moods. Life is seen as a huge theatrical stage, where tragedy and comedy, good and evil, envy and sincerity, stupidity and wisdom, fear and courage, lies and truth, live side by side. We find them on the theatrical mosaic panel – “The Lighthouse” (1962, guașe). In the 1960s, the plastic artist Glebus Sainciuc began to work simultaneously in three genres of art: portraiture in painting, masks in a way close to sculpture, and charades and bagatelles in graphics…
Each small visitor to the master’s studio was asked to draw … a cow – as the child saw it… His collection contains thousands of cows drawn by children’s hands – children of several generations – from 1960 to 2012… The master was buried at the Central Armenian Cemetery in Chisinau…