Dohotaru Vasile

Vasile Dohotaru, artist based in Chisinau, Moldova.

Member of USESCO AIAP, Paris, France.
Member of the Artists' Union of Moldova and Romania.

Vasile Dohotaru was born on 10 April 1955 in the village of Curchi, Orhei. A graduate of the Ushinski Intitute's Arts School in Odessa, Dohotaru became member of the Moldovan Union of Plastic Artists in 1990, and six years later member of the Romanian counterpart institution. In 1997 he became member of the International Association of Plastic Arts UNESCO.

A masterful combination of a warm color palette, chromatic dynamism and geometric equilibrium is perhaps what makes Vasile Dohotaru's paintings so special.

Vasile Dohotaru says he has always enjoyed “manipulating” with colors and figures. Offering an insight into his style, he revealed that he works swiftly. “I work on my paintings very fast so as not to lose their freshness. If the work is fresh and quickly done, I hit the right note from the first strike, in excellent harmony, as I find the right plastic in the first half an hour”, says the artist, adding however that some of his works need more time to ripen.

The artist says he has never worked with dull colors; the bright colors have inspired him since childhood, whi...

1975-1980 // Pedagogical State University C. D. Ushinscki, Faculty of Fine Arts, Odessa, Ukraine
1982-1984 // Riga watercolor laboratory

Solo exhibitions

1981 Galeria UAP, Odesa
1987 Sankt Petersburg, Rusia
1990 Galeria Victoria, Iaşi, Romania
1992 Galeria UAP, Botoşani, Romania
1993 Muzeul de Artă şi Etnografie, Piatra-Neamţ, Romania
1994 Muzeul de Artă şi Etnografie, Bacău, Romania
1994 Galeria Municipiului, Bucureşti, România
1995 Muzeul de Artă şi Etnografie, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1995 Muzeul de Artă şi Etnografie, Bistriţa, Romania
1995 Muzeul de Artă şi Etnografie, Baia-Mare UAP, Romania
1995 Galeria Căminul Artei, Bucureşti, România
1996 Galeria UAP, Arad, Romania
1996 Galeria UAP, Satu Mare, Romania
1997-1999 Alianţa Franceză, Chişinău
1992-2000 Opera Naţională, Chişinău
1998 Galeria UAP, Chişinău
2000, 2001 Teatrul Satiricus, Chişinău
1993, 2003 Centrul Expoziţonal Constantin Brâncuşi, Chişinău
2008 Centrul Expoziţonal Constantin Brâncuşi, Chişinău
2008 AGPI, Chişinău
2008 Sinaia, Romania
2008 Stuttgart, Germania
2009 Muzeul Municipiului Truscoveţ, Ucraina
2009 OSCE în Republica Moldova, Chişinău
2009 Ambasada Statelor Unite ale Americii in Republica Moldova
2009 Atena, Grecia
2010 Teatrul Naţional de Operă şi Balet, Chişinău

Group exhibitions

1988 Salonul Tineretului, Moskova, Rusia
1992 Grupul 22, Bucureşti, România
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