Andrei Varga

When I am creating I leave spontaneity to play the most important role! I don't have the entire image or concept in my mind, I just build it as I start painting. The media that I prefer using in order to express my creativity is oil on canvas. It gives me the opportunity to play with the layers on surface and to create space. My latest works include a series of portraits that represent unsaved memory. It is about time and the way it leaves prints in our memory and also about the way that human memory plays with time. The memory decomposes the complete image transforming it into an incomplete puzzle and then it plays with into the imaginary field trying to recompose the image. It is about transposing the material into immaterial by creating a new identity and vice versa. I am fascinated by space and memory, either physical or imaginary, and by their virtual existence.

2008- 2010- Master Degree ( MA), University of Art and Design,
Cluj- Napoca, Romania
Area(s) of Specialization: Fine Arts
2004-2008 University degree ( BA), issued by the University of Art
and Design,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Area(s) of Specialization: Fine Arts
2006-2007 Socrates/Erasmus Mobility, Palermo, Italy
1999-2003 High School Leaving Certificate issued by The Fine Arts High School,
Targu-Mures, Romania
AWARDS
2006 International painting Competition “Poszt”, (National Theatre Meeting in Pecs) Pecsi Gallery, Pecs, Hungary – 1st Prize

http://the.imoca.ie/exhibition/new-living-art-iii/

http://primopianogallery.com/eventieng.asp?ID=238

http://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/andrei-varga-unsaved-memory

http://www.strabag-kunstforum.at/nominierten.php?search_word=&page=3

SOLO SHOWS

2011 Pilgrimage,Cityhall; Reghin,Romania

2010 The Blacksmith,House of Culture Eugen Nicoara; Reghin, Romania

2014 Unsaved Memory, K-arte Gallery, Targu Mures, Romania

GROUP SHOWS

2012 The Imaginarium ,Primo piano Living Gallery; Lecce, Italy

2012 New Living Art III , Irish Museum of Contemporary Art [IMOCA], Dublin, Ireland

2012 First Preview, Grow Art, Independent 84 Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2011 Start Gallery, Leoben, Austria

2011 International Gala of Cultural Trafficker, Sonnenfeld Palace; Oradea, Romania

2011 Il Borgo Gallery ; Milan, Italy

2010 History and Art Museum , Ioan Sigma Gallery ; Zalau, Romania

2010 Art Museum; Arad, Romania

2010 The Reghin Cityhall; Reghin, Romania

2009 Colorida Art Gallery; Lisbon, Portugal

2009 U.A.P. Gallery; Târgu-Mureș, Romania

2006 The International painting Competition “Poszt”, (National Theatre Meeting in Pecs), Pecsi Gallery; Pecs, Hungary