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

A favorite place of the artist, the San Marco square holds solid ground on the brink of the fluid and uncertain waters surrounding the city. The recent aqua alta which has overwhelmed Venice intensifies the experience of this extraordinary painting. The symbols of hegemony – political, commercial and cultural – emerge from the many-layered paint which resembles the ebb and tide, in an unsettling understanding of life/history’s relentless flow of both limpid and dark meaning.