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Cultural manager and visual artist, Valentina Druțu lives and works in Iași, beeing active on the national and international fine arts scene.
Valentina Druțu is a graduate of the "George Enescu" National University of Arts Iași, Faculty of Visal Arts and Design, class of 1995 (class of Prof. Liviu Suhar), specializing in painting. In 1996 she became a member of the Romanian Fine Arts’ Union, Iași branch, and since 2006 she is a member of the Directors’ Board of UAPR Iași. Since 1995 she has been working as a museographer in the Iași Art Museum, Palace of Culture, where she has been the director of this museum since 2007. In the fields of painting and interior design, she is one of the representative artists of her generation, her works being found in museums and private collections in the country and abroad (USA, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, France, Italy, Holland, Sweden, etc.).
"Valentina Druțu is the artist who invokes through vegetal structures, through the macro rendering of details, living beings who carry, like fairy-tale characters, trials and victories, rebellions and reconciliations, reflecting the sky and roots on the surface of a petal, the explosion of the moment prolonging itself to make the miraculous possible. Her nature, with butterflies and flowers, birds and fish, clouds, wings, angels establishes a new possible order of the world, fantastic in means, a world in which the landmarks described by the polarity of good and evil are diluted, leaving room for reflection through this corner of existence of one's own inner world." (Maria Bilașevschi)
