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Alexandra Stanciu
Romania
Artist highlights
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 63x39.4in
About this artwork
“The Bear’s Maccabee”, “The Day of the Bear”, “The Mating of Bears” or “The Maccabee of the Hives” are names that lasted throughout time, to this day, relics of pre-Christian celebrations that coincide with the beginning of the bear mating season and with the end of summer.
According to a decree from Constantinople, this cosmic day of ancestral celebration was overlapped with a Christian one: The Day of the Maccabees is also called The Day of the… Summer Cross, because the Church, on this day, celebrates the parade of the wood of the Holy Cross on the streets, with the role of protection and sanctification of people, their household and their crops.
In the southern parts of the country, in Oltenia, on “The Maccabee of the Hives” there is a tradition of cutting the honeycombs and collecting the last honey, leaving the bees only with the necessary reserve for the winter.
According to a decree from Constantinople, this cosmic day of ancestral celebration was overlapped with a Christian one: The Day of the Maccabees is also called The Day of the… Summer Cross, because the Church, on this day, celebrates the parade of the wood of the Holy Cross on the streets, with the role of protection and sanctification of people, their household and their crops.
In the southern parts of the country, in Oltenia, on “The Maccabee of the Hives” there is a tradition of cutting the honeycombs and collecting the last honey, leaving the bees only with the necessary reserve for the winter.
Alexandra Stanciu
Romania
Credentials
- Works on commission
Alice (Alexandra Camelia Stanciu) paints from the edge of myth — where Romanian folklore dissolves into gesture and color, where ancient symbols resurface as instinct rather than ornament.
Trained in graphic design, animation, and illustration, she draws from the pastoral traditions of Transylvania, the solar symbols of pre-Christian Romania, the silent grammar of a culture that encoded its cosmology into textiles and ceremony. No literal folk motifs — only their emotional residue, rendered in urgent, gestural acrylics.
To collect her work is to bring something genuinely rare into a room.
Trained in graphic design, animation, and illustration, she draws from the pastoral traditions of Transylvania, the solar symbols of pre-Christian Romania, the silent grammar of a culture that encoded its cosmology into textiles and ceremony. No literal folk motifs — only their emotional residue, rendered in urgent, gestural acrylics.
To collect her work is to bring something genuinely rare into a room.
Alexandra Stanciu
Macavei
$4,930
