The "Ion Vlasiu" Gallery is housed by the Teleki Library, which is situated on 17 Bolyai Farkas Street.
     It was founded thanks to Ion Vlasiu's donation in 1988. This master from Târgu-Mureş had a treble calling mainly for sculpture, but also for painting and writing.
     His paintings tried to explain the human soul. Vlasiu has the nostalgia for the village as a home for the national collective soul, with whom he feels united and whose survival he would like to preserve in the middle of this contemporary human drama.
     By following the tradition, he manages to create elementary images, stylized appearances and primitive vibrations, by interweaving a strong and vegetal colouring with a rhythmical decoration.
     The domains where he finds most of his themes, presented then under the form of the metaphor and the symbol, are: the universe of the village, the landscape and the history. His favourite subjects are; man's cycles of life, man's course of life, the representation of exemplary persons taken from the daily and anonymous universe of the village, from history, or from the national culture.
     Ion Vlasiu's sculptures aim at those primary and forefathers' forms which resemble the simple bodies made by nature itself. No matter what material he used (stone, wood, plaster cast), Vlasiu tried to recreate the pure form. As a result of having been in an unceasing communication with his native universe, he was able to breathe a new life into this so complex world, creating, thus, in a laconic language, children's, aged men's, villagers', intellectuals' and heroes' heads. His pieces of sculpture are directly related to this nation's traditions, through morphologies and stylistics (especially the totemic representations and those works inspired by fairy-tales and legends).
     His novels, in which the autobiography has some fictitious aspects (but with an unspoiled genuineness ), define Ion Vlasiu's human and artistic structure with an undoubted village fund present in all its aspects.
     Ion Vlasiu lives the continuous revelation of the outside world, and also of his inner one, with a genuine dramatic feeling, in the memorialist prose, in sculpture and in painting.