Victor Hagea
Victor Hagea
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
About Victor Hagea
Born: July 22, 1948, Lupeni/Hunedoara, RomaniaI have been interested in drawing and painting since youth, and had a rigorous arts education.I have been much influenced by the Flemish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and French great masters. I saw in their multi-faceted work multiple windows toward the absolute. Then Dali showed me what kinds of possibilities dwell within the domain of the "real" and what the artists can make of it. After a time of experimenting in several directions such as cubism, constructivism, and abstractionism and using various techniques, I came back to the kind of painting that best expresses who I am. I have always dreamed of painting this way, finding means to capture the passing and evanescent nature of reality through forms that transcend it. Traditional Indian philosophy claims that "life is a dream," underscoring an invisible boundary that separates different worlds from each other and therefore the respective "realities" that correspond to them. There is something in each "reality" that transcends its physical immediacy taking the form of a projection or emanation, thus outgrowing its deterministic corset and finding its "super-reality" at a higher level. I believe my textual "Painting as performance representation" opens the door towards understanding this."Painting as a form of performance"As shape is the child of space, it purifies in the light and dresses in the shadow of the unusual. The unknown appears changed by the form of the well-known, invited to the party of the ephemeral shapes. The game of light and shadows opens the door to the world of polar reality which is continuously betraying its initial state by flirting with its opponent. Within this scene of dialectical caprice, the vacation taken by the shape, translated in its desire for resting is nothing but its wish to rise in order to be born again in the triumphant aspect of the eternal golden age. An age which is meant to head for the identification with the unforgettable state which it valiantly once left behind. The eternal is pulsating as if it were the obvious, inviting the spectator to attend the ritual through which reality is leaving the chest of its own bias in order to return to the Paradise it had once known. Curtains concealing the magic of the world surrender in front of the brave ego, explorer of virgin territories. He is chasing himself in the eternal merry-go-round movement of Cronos, as if he were to reach himself from behind and going beyond his own being. It is the mysterious route of Magellan's clouds, sailing on indefinite spaces, living in the cadence of eternity where the tune of the suspending pendulums accompany the song of the drifting sand on the shore of the ephemeral rediscoveries. In the polyphonic torment of a dialectical world, the omniscient silence of the statues is nothing but the unwritten music of the spheres. The eye is the stage of a performance where the director becomes his own actor in order to overpass the barrier at the end of the night, thus encountering the world as a piece of poetry. The unambiguous is saying goodbye to its own context, accepting the invitation to the never started travel whose destination will be the ultimate knowledge.
Education:
EDUCATION:
Graduate of Academy of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Events:
March 14 - April 6 Annual Art Exhibition of Munich Artists Association royal privileged 1868, Egyptian museum, Munich
2014 Solo Exhibition in Museum Of Art Cluj-Napoca/Romania
Exhibitions:
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1980 Biennial of Painting, Bucharest
1984 Biennial of Painting, Bucharest
1988 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
1989 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
1990 Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais, Paris
1995 ART’ 95 International Art Competition, New York
1995 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
1996 Salon International d’ Art Contemporain Nice, Palais des Expositions
1996 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
1997 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
1999 Salon des Indépendants, Paris
2001 - 2004 OPERA Gallery Paris-New York-Singapore-Miami-Hong Kong
2002 Salon d’ Automne, Paris
2003 Salon d’ Automne, Paris
2004 - 2005 „The Labyrinthe“ Castle Honhardt Dellarte
since 2004 exposing on various galleries from Paris and France
2005 Europ’Art, Palexpo, Genève
2005 International Art Fair, Gent, Belgium
since 2006 Astarte Gallery, Paris
2006 Art en Capital, Grand Palais, Paris
2009 Annual Art Exhibition of Munich Artists' Association royal privileged 1868, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2010 Annual Art Exhibition of Munich Artists' Association royal privileged 1868, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2011 Annual Art Exhibition of Munich Artists' Association royal privileged 1868, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2012 Annual Art Exhibition of Munich Artists' Association royal privileged 1868, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2014 Annual Art Exhibition of Munich Artists Association royal privileged 1868, Egyptian museum, Munich
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ACQUISITIONS
Many works are in Museums in Romania and private collections in Europe, USA and China.
.PUBLICATIONS:
1988/89/90/95/96/97/99 Salon des Indépendants
1998 Münchner Merkur, No. 243
2002 Salon d’ Automne, Paris
2003 Salon d’ Automne, Paris
2002 World Of Art, Issue 5, Volume 2
2003 World Of Art, Issue 6, Volume 3
2003 Contemporary Artists, Volume 1
2005 Europ’ART, Genève;
Juli 2005 Beaux-arts Magasine
2006 Artist Contact, Contemporary Global Art
2006 Salon des Indépendants
DROUOT-DICTIONNAIRE COTATION ARTISTES 2006, LAROUSSE Diffusion
2007 Contemporary globalart 2007 – The artist contact
DROUOT-DICTIONNAIRE COTATION ARTISTES 2007, LAROUSSE Diffusion
2008 TRENDS - 125 Contemporary Artists ISBN: 978-91-89685-17-8
DROUOT-DICTIONNAIRE COTATION ARTISTES 2008, LAROUSSE Diffusion, ISBN: 978-2-9524215-2-2
2009 VICTOR HAGEA • AMAZING ART • ISBN 13: 9789189685239
INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, FERRARA, ITALY
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURREAL, Gerhard Habarta ISBN: 9 783837 084276
MUT No. 504, 505, 506, 507
Catalog Art Exhibition of Munich Artists Association royal privileged 1868
2010 ARTELIBRE • Arte y Libertad V, ISBN: 10: 84-15126-03-4
CREATIVE GENIUS - 100 Artists ISBN: 978-91-89685-15-4
MUT Nr. 510, 512, 516, 517
Catalog Art Exhibition of Munich Artists Association royal privileged 1868
2011 INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS Vol. II New York,
ISBN: 9789609329859
Catalog Art Exhibition of Munich Artists Association royal privileged 1868
MUT No. 524
2012 MUT No. 531, 534, 538
Catalog Art Exhibition of Munich Artists Association royal privileged 1868
2013 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURREAL, Gerhard Habarta, 2nd Edition
MUT No. 541, 542, 549
ARTISTI INTERNAZIONALI, Annuario per Artisti di Successo 2013
2014 Hidden Treasure Art Magazine, London