Education
Department of History of the State University "Mihail V. Lomonosov," Moscow, division of the History of World Art, graduated in 1984;
Diploma Thesis - "The Tradition of Folk Art in the Work of Mihai Grecu"

Professional Experience and graduate studies
1984 - 1985 - researcher at the National Art Museum of Moldova; division of medieval and folk art;
1985 - 1987 - head inspector of the Division for Arts and Museums of the Ministry of Culture of Moldova;
1987 - 1988 - head of the Division for Arts and Museums of the Ministry of Culture;
1988 - 1991 - doctoral studies at the division of Archeology, Ethnicity and Arts Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova;
1993 (February) defended doctoral thesis "Attribution and Dating of the Mural Paintings in the Assumption Church in Causeni"; defended at the State University M. V. Lomonosov" in Moscow
1992 - 1993 - worked with the recently-founded division for arts studies of the Moldovan Academy of Sciences;
1998 - 1999 - vice-minister of culture of the Republic of Moldova, Director of the Department of Publishing, Printing and Book Marketing
1998 - elected distant member of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (Paris)
2000 - 2001 - head of the arts division of the Institute of Arts Studies of ASM

Main published works:

I. Books:
1. Biserica Adormirea Maicii Domnului din Causeni, Chisinau, Stiinta, 1997
2. Patrimoniul cultural al Republicii Moldova (together with Tudor Stavila and Tamara Diaconescu), Chisinau, Arc, Museum, 1999
3. Icoane vechi din colectii basarabene (with Tudor Stavila), Chisinau, Arc, 2000


II. Articles:
1. "Лики Совести", in Наше наследие, no.IV, 1989 (with Vasile Negruta)
2. "Tehnologia frescei medievale moldovenesti in contextul picturii murale postbizantine", Arta'92, pp.31 - 39
3. "De la "Heros"-ul antic la Sfintul Gheroghe. Incercare de interpretare iconografica si etimologica a imaginii Cavalerului trac", Arta'94, pp. 3 - 11
4. "Aproximare la icoana", Arta'95, pp. 3 - 18
5. "O cronica neterminata: istoriografia Causenilor", Arta'96, pp. 12 - 21
6. "Mitologia operei picturale (consemnari privind creatia maestrului Mihai Grecu)", Arta'96, pp. 109 - 115
7. "Programul iconografic al frescelor din biserica Adormirea Maicii Domnului din Causeni", Arta'97, pp.43 - 51
8. "Topografia sacra a Mandylionului", Arta 1999 - 2000, pp. 5 - 9
9. "Mihai Grecu: Portile", Probleme actuale ale artei nationale, Chisinau, 1993, pp. 45 - 53
10. "Les siecle de l'existence du "nomen" etrusque et le disque de Phaistos", Etudes sur l'art de la Moldavie, Chisinau, 1996, pp. 23 - 31
11. "Termeni si realitati", Sud - Est, 1997, no. 2 (28), pp. 69 - 74
12. "Meditatii de la Tzara in Re - ", Sud - Est, 1997, no. 3 (29), pp. 83 - 88
13. "Zugravi - iconari ai Moldovei medievale", Sud - Est, 1998, no.3 (33), pp. 72 - 80
14. ""Pendulul lui Foucault": o lectura deschisa", Sud - Est, 2001, no. 1 - 2 (43 - 44), pp. 90 - 116
15. "Vechi icoane basarabene", Neamul romanesc, new series, no. 2, 1996, pp. 30 - 31
16. "Enigma discului de la Phaistos", Revista de Istorie a Moldovei, 1994, no. 3 - 4 (19 - 20), pp. 71 - 80

Artist and exhibition catalogues
7. text for "Semion Zamsa - Elena Karacentev", Chisinau, 1999, pp. 5 - 6
8. text for "Iurie Matei", Chisinau, 1999, pp. 3
9. text for "Andrei Negura", Iasi, Dosoftei, 2001, pp. 8 - 9
10. text for "Emil Childescu" (in Turkish and English), Istambul, 1996, Galerie Alkent Actuel Art, pp. 4 - 5
11. "Seminar "Opera Deschisa"" in "Kilometrul 6", pp. 10 - 14, Chisinau, Soros - Moldova Foundation, 1996
12. Editor and author of the introduction to "Restaurarea - Conservarea patrimoniului national", Chisinau, publisher: National Arts Museum, sponsor: Soros - Moldova Foundation, 2001