Bus-shelter mosaic, Recea

A Soviet-era mosaic on the bus shelter at Recea, the seat of a small commune (together with Slobozia-Recea and Sverdiac) in the Rîșcani district of northern Moldova. It belongs to the wave of mosaic-clad bus stops built along Moldova's roads in the 1960s–1980s — a tradition so widespread that mosaics, more than any other feature, define the Soviet roadside shelter here, each village competing to dress up the spot that was its everyday link to the wider world. The work is anonymous: neither the artist, the year, nor the panel's subject is on record. It is catalogued in the „Mosaics of Moldova” (Buretz) inventory, photographed there by Nadejda Argint, but no openly-licensed photograph of the mosaic exists, so its imagery cannot be described from a verified source.

Tracks

Northern Moldova, Roadside Mosaics

Neighborhood

Recea, r. Rîșcani