The Politician Painting

Born in 1964, in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Lives and works in Timişoara. Painter and art restorer, member of Romanian Union of Visual Artists. Faculty of Arts and Design – Timişoara, MA of Painting in 2009. Awards: Special Award of the Jury at Creative Camp Csepel, Hungary, Budapest. Selection of personal exhibitons: 1994 Gallery-Bar „Sakura”, Timişoara; 1995 „Heltai Gaspar” Gallery, Cluj Napoca;2008 „Axa-Art” Gallery, Timişoara; 2011 Kafka Kafe Gallery, Timişoara, Romania; 2011 U.A.P Agora Gallery, Reşita; 2012 U.A.P. Helios Gallery, Timişoara; 2012 Helios Gallery, Timişoara; 2013 Art Rotary Gallery, Timişoara; 2015 Pygmalion Gallery, Casa Artelor, Timişoara; 2016 U.A.P Agora Gallery, Reşita. Collective exhibitions: 1998 Csepel Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; 2005 Adam Muller Guttenbrunn House, Timişoara; 2008 – 2015 U.A.P. Anual Salon, Art Museum Timişoara; 2009 Painting Camp, Zrenianin Serbia; 2010 International Art Exhibition, Nurnberg, Germany; 2011 Central European Cultural Institute Budapest, Hungary; 2012 9 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; 2013 Calpe Gallery, Timişoara, Romania; 2014 Winter Salon, Mako, Hungary; 2015 Szentendre, Hungary. Creation camps: 1998-2014, active participant at national creation camps in Brebu Nou, Jimbolia, Gernik, Herculane, Gărâna and Recaş and international creation camps in Budapest, Csongrad, and Germely, Hungary. Critique: „Tar Béla’s painting highly distinghuish as one of the most keen expression of the school led by Romul Nuțiu at the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timişoara. The stylistic methods behind the creative effort made by Tar Béla build on joining transparent and semi-opaque fields which superpose densely as entrance gates towards areas that hide internal energies caught in motion. Other methods are offering us static details and clones of iconic repetitive signs, gestural flashes or precise geometrical outlines suspended in an inexplicable movement which leads you to do mental exercises of changes and modifications as we sense in our perceptive field when we watch things from different distances or motion.” Simona Vegh’s article about Tar Béla.