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Petric Mihai - painter
Petric Mihai

Born
7 March 1923, Meleseni village, Bravicea (currently Calarasi)

It seems that originality comes from two directions: from the subconscious of each person as well as from our capacity to see and to observe, to contemplate. A painter may pass by a plastic motif without noticing it. Another one may stop in front of it, thrilled, and paint it. This is how individuality seems to be expressed. The way Dostoevski understood it, that is art comes from our feelings rather than from the intellectual side.
Mihai Petric

Education
1935-1944 - Pedagogical school in Iasi and Chisinau
1948 - Graduates the National School of Plastic Arts "I. Repin" (currently the College of Plastic Arts "A. Plamadeala"), Chisinau, Moldova
1948-1955 - Institute of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Plastic Arts, Kiev, Ukraine

Experience
1955-1959 - teacher at the National School of Plastic Arts "I Repin" (currently the College of Plastic Arts "A. Plamadeala"), Chisinau, Moldova
1956 - Member of the Union of Plastic Arts of Moldova
1959 - Member of the Management Board and Secretary of the Union of Plastic Arts of Moldova
1963-1980 - Director of the State Museum of Plastic Arts, Chisinau, Moldova
1972-1976 - Vice President of the Management Board of the Union of Plastic Arts of Moldova

Solo Exhibitions
1964 - Officers' House (currently Army House), Chisinau, Moldova
1984 - National Museum of plastic Arts, Chisinau, Moldova
1985 - Sadova and Horodiste, Calarasi district, Moldova
1986 - National Clinical Hospital, Chisinau, Moldova
1988 - Technical University of Moldova, Chisinau
1993 - "Constantin Brancusi" Gallery, Chisinau, Moldova
1993 - "MOLDEXPO", Chisinau, Moldova

Group Exhibitions
Since 1956 - participated in all the exhibitions of plastic arts in Moldova, as well as in exhibitions organized on the occasion of the days of Moldovan culture in Moscow, Tallinn, Riga, Baku, Tashkent, Erevan, Odessa, Lvov, Chernivtsy, Minsk

1967 - Moldovan Plastic Art, Budapest, Hungary
1968 - Mongolia
1968 - Canada
1980, 1984, 1987 - Bulgaria
1980 - Syria
1988 - Portugal
1989 - Island
1990 - Spain
1993 - Romania
1995 - Hungary

Art Camps
1963, 1968, 1975 - Gurzuf (Crimea), Iraq
1982 - Bojentsi, Bulgaria

Awards
1960 - "Pin of Honor" Award
1978 - Master Emeritus of Arts of Moldova
1989 - People's Plastic Artist
1998 - Citation of the Republic

Works in Public Collections
Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria

Works in Private Collections
Moldova, Romania, Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Japan, Israel, USA, Canada, Greece, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Hungary, France, Turkey

See: http://arhiva.art.md/petric/en.html
updated: 2006-03-29 18:44:18