Between August 12 and September 10, 2025, the Golești Museum invites you to discover the exhibition “Seasons” by the plastic artist Valentin Kolesnicov.

We can only speak about Valentin Kolesnicov’s painting in a personal way, because there are artists who, when you discover them, without warning you, touch you deeply. Such was the virtual encounter with Valentin Kolesnicov’s paintings, a moment of rare peace, which does not have its source in silence, but in the fitting of things.

As he himself confesses, he was born with a natural inclination towards observing the world. As a child, he used to leave home and lose track of time, watching the movement of beetles, the growth of grass, the floating of clouds or the sound of frogs in the pond, as if it were an improvised concert. This long, attentive, unhurried look remained essential throughout his artistic career.

Although he studied ceramics, learning to work with form and matter, he chose painting, for practical reasons, but also for the freedom it offered to expression. He remained, however, a versatile artist who sculpts, does artistic and commercial photography, and graphics.

In 2000, Valentin Kolesnicov had his first exhibition at the Museum of Romanian Literature. He exhibited at the Mogoșoaia Palace, and from August 12 you can meet those paintings at the Golești Museum. , where he is preparing a new exhibition in the summer of 2025. His works can be found in numerous private collections in Romania and abroad.

For documentation, I started looking at his works in the virtual space (https://kolesnicovv.wixsite.com/valentinkolesnicov/portfolio) starting from the flower series. There are flowers that can be conventionally described as “pretty”, “fine” or “delicate”. But, upon closer inspection, they are flowers that live. Color charges them with energy, gives them weight, texture, voice. It is almost impossible to look at them without wanting to touch them and smell them. You feel the red like a gentle flame, the yellow like a light pouring from within, and the green – that vivid and dense green – catches you in a common breath with the plant.

If Kolesnicov’s flowers speak to you about closeness, about detail, about intimacy, his landscapes offer you space and integration into nature. Nothing is static. The branches of the trees seem to move gently, the snow has a silent weight, the wind leaves traces. His landscapes are not composed, but felt. Winter has a heavy, deep silence, and autumn burns in almost sonorous colors. Sunsets are dramatic, but without melodrama. And everywhere, those discreet signs of life appear: a flock of birds, a silhouette, a path that leads nowhere, but calls you. There are paintings that make you stay longer, to remember something you didn’t know you knew, to imagine a story, maybe even your own.

The graphics signed by Valentin Kolesnicov seem to be an exercise in reducing the world to sign, contour, silent rhythm. Just like his painting that breathes through color and seasonal vibration, the graphics vibrate in color and pregnant intensities of black.

On August 12, 2025, from 3:00 PM, we invite you to the Golești Museum to meet Valentin Kolesnicov and his painting.

Daniela Șontică about the exhibition and the artist:

“Surprising, prolific, rigorous, always ready to experiment with the new, Valentin Kolesnikov is a plastic artist who exhibits quite rarely, unfortunately, although, when he does, he conquers the public and receives important appreciation from art critics. This summer, the expectations of those who admire his style are fulfilled through the exhibition at the Golești Museum, entitled “Seasons”. The theme of the new exhibition is obvious and, we could say, extremely welcome, one through which the artist defines himself, his connection with nature being organic, profound and eternal. Springs full of hope, summers with exuberant petals, ripe autumns and blooming winters are just waiting to be seen, researched, admired.”