"Art must have a message. Otherwise, art risks becoming an Aphrodite whose temple collapses if there is no one to bring her offerings."
In some of Ştefănoiu Vasile's sculptures, he brings back the legends from Greek mythology (abandoned since Auguste Rodin) and places them in different contexts, suggesting movement in metamorphosis, to create a way of seeing again in modern times. Sometimes carving directly on cross-sections of walnut wood, on the head of the fibers, he explores the texture, contrast and shape of the wood, revealing the dynamic beauty of growth.
