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.
• From WIKIPEDIA:
In my painting I start from reality and its data and then, by combining elements of the real, I pass beyond reality in another dimension, which I call the supra-reality of reality. This play of elements opens a gate to the invisible element which stands behind scenes, like a stage director.
As artefacts of a statically eternal life, statues are but a means of expression in a more philosophical context of the work of art, by opposition to the dynamic of living things. These two opposites are nevertheless linked by means of the hero category, for heroes are protagonists of a matrix which shapes human destinies. Old myths become live again in the destinies of today's heroes.
"The focus of my artistic creation is the human being in connection with his activities , actions and desires which determine and form his fate - the human who creates his . If I had to characterize my style, I should call it with indefinite boundaries between reality and dream. So I would like to invite the spectator to be witness to the interaction of the states where the reality escapes into the dream and the dream will turn to some aspects of the reality. In contrast with other representatives of the various art movements, I do not doubt the traditional values of art, but I try to find a new way and to use them in an updated context. The assertion of Delacroix "The painting must be a feast for the eye" is for me still up to date and significant and it opens up for me new perspectives to implement my artistic ideas. "
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 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, The Arts House (Haus der Kunst), Munich
2010 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, The Arts House (Haus der Kunst), Munich
2011 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, The Arts House (Haus der Kunst), Munich
2012 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, The Arts House (Haus der Kunst), Munich
2014 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich
2014 The German Hopfen Museum, Wolnzach, Germany
2015 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich
2017 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich
London Crossroads Art Fair 2017
Shanghai Art Fair
2018 Munich 1868 royal artists alliance art exhibition, State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich
London Crossroads Art Fair 2017
• SOLO EXHIBITIONS
From 8 June to 2 July 2017, ART MUSEUM CLUJ, Romania
9/10 - 04/11/2017 • SOLO EXHIBITION • GALLERY STEINER, Kurrentgasse 4 - 1010 Vienna (old town)
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ACQUISITIONS
Many works are in Museums in Romania and private collections in Europe, USA and China.
