The architects Tudor Vlāsceanu and Ciprian Rășoiu recently designed the new headquarters of ING Hubs Romania, a company of the ING Bank Group that provides high-tech services. The new building in Bucharest houses a mosaic work entitled ‘Looking Back to Look Forward’ in the reception area.
Vlad Nancă’s creation, realised by the company Friul Mosaic, covers 50 square metres in the reception area of the new building and develops like a work of art without boundaries, in which movement, colour and suspension interact with the building’s interior architecture.
The subject is inspired by Aleksander Rodchenko‘s Space Construction No. 12 from 1920, whose work translated into a graph of planetary orbits as a cosmic structure. The three hands hold iconic elements, symbols of discoveries and technological developments that have changed history: the first satellite on Earth, Sputnik 1, the shape of an atom, theorised in the 19th century by John Dalton, and Vanguard 1, the American satellite that was the first object to use solar energy, are represented.
Artist Vlad Nancă says of his work: “On the sides, five silhouettes look towards the horizon (or towards the visitor, it is unclear). Their bodies overlap, a way for me to emphasise the things we have in common, in an era of polarities and controversies… a metaphor for hope and optimism for a better future through technology’. In this metaphorical reference, the mosaic work represents the philosophy behind ING Hubs Romania: technology can and should generate hope and optimism for a better future.
