‘Greetings’ and ‘Roads’ mosaics, Bălți bus station

‘Greetings’ and ‘Roads’ mosaics, Bălți bus station ‘Greetings’ and ‘Roads’ mosaics, Bălți bus station ‘Greetings’ and ‘Roads’ mosaics, Bălți bus station ‘Greetings’ and ‘Roads’ mosaics, Bălți bus station ‘Greetings’ and ‘Roads’ mosaics, Bălți bus station ‘Greetings’ and ‘Roads’ mosaics, Bălți bus station
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The Bălți bus station — the central coach terminal of Moldova's second city, the so-called ‘northern capital’ — carries two monumental works from 1972, both entered on the register of monuments of national importance. The reinforced-concrete wave of the facade carries the relief mosaic ‘Salutare’ (Greetings): a golden sun-halo with a stylised bird of passage and a bouquet of red and blue flowers held by figures, ringed by small ceramic roundels — a welcome to the traveller arriving in the north. Inside the hall is the second panel, ‘Drumuri’ (Roads), a figurative scene of families, white classicising buildings, factories, fields and a plane — the roads of the country gathered into one image. The palette runs from ochre and gold to brick-red and blue. The artist is Vladislav Obuh, per the „Corpus of Monuments of History and Culture of the MSSR, Northern Zone” (1987); the year (1972) and national-monument status come from the Register of Monuments (addresses Ștefan cel Mare 1 for ‘Salutare’ and 2 for ‘Drumuri’). The works survive in situ and were photographed by the photobankmd campaign.

Neighborhood
Bălți
Artist
Vladislav Obuh
Year
1972
Building
Autogara Bălți, str. Ștefan cel Mare 1–2, Bălți

Photos: Avereanu (CC BY-SA 4.0) · photobankmd (CC0)