House-of-Culture mosaic, Ghetlova
A Soviet house of culture in Ghetlova, the seat of its commune in the Orhei district of central Moldova, first documented on 17 July 1436 under the name Deteleu. The building is a low single-storey hall with a central classicising portico — arched entrance, triangular pediment and columns — flanked by two wings that carry the mosaic panels, framed by friezes and pilasters of yellow-and-green geometric meander. The right-hand panel shows five figures in Moldovan folk costume (men in embroidered waistcoats, women in blue, red and green dresses, one holding a loaf of bread), ranged frontally across a cream field strewn with abstract geometric signs — chevrons, lozenges, dots. The left-hand panel is a scene of labour and plenty: young people among grapevines and fruit trees, a woman with a sheaf, a kneeling man with bread, a girl releasing a dove, in warm ochre and green. The artist and year are undocumented; the work belongs to the monumental-art programme that decorated village houses of culture in the 1960s–80s. The four openly-licensed photographs (Vladikh, CC BY 4.0) show the full facade and both panels in detail.
- Track
- Central Moldova (Codru)
- Neighborhood
- Ghetlova, r. Orhei
- Building
- Casa de Cultură, Ghetlova, r. Orhei