Art Of The Steal? The Sculptures Of The Romanian Charged With $4.5 Million Fraud
share Print Several public artworks by Romanian sculptor Ioan Bolborea are under scrutiny after a widely mocked Bucharest statue is alleged to have been cast with "inferior-quality materials." The artist says the case is revenge for a legal dispute. This Bucharest statue, depicting Roman Emperor Trajan holding a stiff-legged she-wolf, has been controversial since it was first unveiled in 2012. The monument, which is based on a model by the late sculptor Vasile Gorduz, was widely panned as "grotesque," though one journalist suggested the criticism stemmed from "stubborn conservatism" in Roma...
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