Saturday, June 7th this year took place at the Bolii Cave
EXHIBITION OPENING
DACIOUS FORTRESS OF BANIŢA – HISTORY IN STONE
Exhibitor: Mining artist EDI SCHNEIDER, whose motto:
NIHIL SINE DEO is seen by the artist as a moral principle, because Divinity helped him in the hardest trials of life.
Edi Schneider was born on May 16, 1976 in the town of Vulcan.
He dedicated himself to stone sculpture from the age of 6, and at 13 he made his first object, a pocketknife.
This was followed by various other wooden sculptures, as well as metal fabrications.
The first representative exhibition was at the Paroșeni Mine, with 70 exhibits.
The artist’s portfolio is enriched with participation in numerous and successful intern and international exhibitions.
Stone sculpture is not modeled after an original model, it does not use sketches, it simply lets the stone tell its story, and the artist listens to it, and from each carving, shapes and contours emerge, which bring the work to light.
The diverse approaches make sculptor Edi Schneider a complex, deeply faithful personality, and this is reflected in some of the most beautiful sculptures in stone, bone, wood, and metal.
His sculpture is universal: Gods, Goddesses, Miner, the prehistoric Mammoth from legends, an inspired rendering of Salvador Dali’s famous “Clock” with the motto: “You can’t save today’s time to use it tomorrow.”
“We are what few find and what even fewer understand.”
Photos: Serb Ionel
