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One should be able to read people’s faces in order to penetrate their inner world.
A photographer would snap thousands of pictures and would choose perhaps only one expressive photo.
Liviu-Adrian SANDU cannot do that.
The wrinkle, the corner of one’s mouth,
the focus of one’s look, or the strand of one’s hair,
these all turn into stone definitively, once for all in his works.
How much talent, how much assiduous work,
what an amazing effort of the hand, and how much torment of the mind
must a sculptor consume in order to transpose his art into stone.
It is nearly impossible to weigh it.
But if you stretch out your hand and want to feel the warmth of the skin,
and if you are able to perceive far beyond the coldness of immortality in a statue,
then the sculptor had surpassed the boundaries between his craftsmanship and his art.
Liviu-Adrian SANDU was able to accomplish this.
Take a look and you will find out by yourself.
Translated into English by Lucia Gorea