Lica Sainciuc

Lica Sainciuc (1947, Chisinau, USSR), artist and researcher from the Republic of Moldova. Born into the family of painters Valentina Rusu Ciobanu and Glebus Sainciuc, being their only child, he trained as an artist in the home environment, where his parents worked, and dominated a creative atmosphere. The house of the Sainciuc family gathers people of culture from different branches: artists, musicians, teachers, writers, actors, poets, filmmakers.

The first printed book The Most Beautiful Flowers (1964) included a series of linocuts - but it’s circulation was stopped, being in the middle of the "struggle with formalism" initiated by the Communist Party. Many years later Lica Sainciuc did not have access to publishing houses, and only in 1977 was he allowed to make drawings for children's books. Entering the publishing field, he immediately enjoyed success with the public, and was supported by authors of texts. He is always experimenting with new techniques: ecoline, airbrush, ballpen, rapidograph and finally – computer. In 1999 appears the first book in the Republic of Moldova executed in the technique of vector graphics Calendar UNICEF 2000. In the book Albinuta the daily appears very encyclopedic. Later, Lica Sainciuc will participate in several books of this type, which offer full knowledge without boring you. The Alphabet follows, in collaboration with Spiridon Vangheli and Grigore

Vieru. Since 1988, the Snail – Undertable Library series has started, in which about 25 titles in circulation of over one million copies have appeared.

From the end of the 1980s, Lica Sainciuc started to produce complex books, creating both the graphic and textual component. In 1988, the book “Una, doua, hai ca ploua” appeared, which later became the P.Oinque Encyclopaedia. Equally synthetic is the book The Alphabet with Tales (2015) where both the drawings and the text belong him. He also published a series of books on the history of his homeland.