Winery mosaic, Bardar
A mosaic on the side wall of the winery in Bardar, a village in the Ialoveni district of central Moldova, first documented on 6 March 1443 (as „Botnei”). Unlike the folk panels on houses of culture, this is an industrial-rural mosaic, set on the multi-storey block of the „Bardar experimental wine factory” — an enterprise with interwar roots, nationalised in 1940 and built up in the Soviet period, with a range running from dry and dessert wines to divin (brandy/cognac). The composition reads as a factory emblem: a barrel-medallion lettered „Bardar ’93”, ringed by grapes and an abstract weave of red, green and yellow, hemmed at the base by a band in the form of an embroidered folk towel. The mosaic's artist and year are undocumented; the „’93” on the panel looks like a brand reference rather than a firm attribution. The work survives in situ (photographed in May 2023).
- Track
- Central Moldova (Codru)
- Neighborhood
- Bardar, r. Ialoveni
- Building
- Fabrica de vin, Bardar, r. Ialoveni