Virgil
Scripcariu

Born in 1974 in Vatra Dornei/Romania. Student in the Bucharest Fine Arts University between 1998-2004, graduate and post-graduate studies in sculpture in the class of Vasile Gorduz a very precious Romanian sculpture and art teacher. He has been exposing in Romania since 2000, in group and personal exhibitions (Iași 2005, 2019, Bucharest 2012, 2014, Chișinău 2021, Cluj-Bistrița-Brașov-Suceava 2018). He has sculptures in public spaces in Bucharest, Iași, Timișoara, Brașov, Suceava. He has been exposed in group exhibitions in Tokyo/Japan (2005), Brussels (2007, 2010), Ireland (2008), Venice - Architecture Biennale (2008), Holon/Israel (2012), London (2015), Chișinău/Moldova 2021. His main subject in sculpture is the human figure and themes such as maternity, childhood, and also classic public space portraits. Virgil Scripcariu is one of the most appreciated sculptures of his generation in Romania. He lives with his family in Piscu, a former potters village near Bucharest, where he involves in safeguarding local heritage. Together with his wife, he raised a museum dedicated to the clay and its potential - peasant ceramics and other traditional ways of using the clay. The courtyard of the museum became a sculpture field, a place where contemporary creation and roots come together.