Bus-shelter mosaic, Slobozia-Dușca
A roadside bus shelter with a mosaic in Slobozia-Dușca, a village in the Criuleni district of central Moldova, first documented in 1618. The work belongs to Moldova's tradition of rural mosaic bus stops — stops clad in smalt through the 1960s–80s, the „village's gateway to the wider world”, an everyday monumental art that the republic keeps in one of its densest concentrations. The theme of the central panel is the horă: a line of dancers in folk costume, linked hand-in-hand in a chain, fills the back wall, while the side walls add a single figure and a stringed instrument (a double bass), a nod to the village band. The mosaic, in tones of gold, grey and white, is topped by a name board reading „SLOBOZIA-DUȘCA”. The artist and year are unrecorded.
- Neighborhood
- Slobozia-Dușca, r. Criuleni
- Building
- Stație de autobuz, Slobozia-Dușca, r. Criuleni
Photos: Gganebnyi (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Vladikh (CC BY-SA 4.0)