Signed in black ink on the back, on the top/right side, stamped with the Francisc Chiuariu Foundation Stamp.

No stranger to the devastating impact of Soviet-inspired Communism in his own country, Chiuariu produces an astonishing abstract rendition of the Red Square in Moscow. The chromatic structure alone tells the story and draws the viewer perilously close into the depths of a harrowing history of death and decay. The dark axis of the Kremlin gives a fortress-like quality to the space, which is overflowing with crimson-red layers of impasto. A terrible beauty shimmers across the canvas, fascinating in its play with darkness and the ice-white promise of a cultured city still standing in the background, profiled against the hope (or sadness) of a sun-lit patch of blue sky.