Village-shop mosaic, Malcoci
A mosaic on the wall of the village shop in Malcoci, a village in the Ialoveni district of central Moldova. The building is a long single-storey shop faced with a chequerboard of brown, tan and blue ceramic tiles; on a blank wall, between three narrow vertical window slots, a mosaic panel is set. The field is laid in small mixed tesserae, almost a glittering pebble-mosaic, over which an abstract decorative motif is drawn — an angular green leaf- or heart-shape enclosing a cluster of blue-outlined discs (like a stylised bunch of grapes) and a curling tendril. It is not a figurative scene but an ornamental composition — the usual register of Soviet 'shop mosaic', meant to enliven a utilitarian wall. The artist and year are undocumented. Malcoci is first documented on 17 October 1517 under the name Azăpeni, and had 1,954 inhabitants in 2024; a protected reference forest sector lies beside the village. The three openly-licensed photographs (Gikü, CC0, geotagged at 47.027, 28.6324; and Vladikh, CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0) show the shop and the panel close-up.
- Track
- Central Moldova (Codru)
- Neighborhood
- Malcoci, r. Ialoveni
- Building
- Magazin sătesc cu mozaic, Malcoci, r. Ialoveni