Eugen Varzic

I paint in the same way I breathe. I stay the same, yet am in a constant change. This is how I entered the world of art and remained alone on that path.
I’m not some ”based artist”, like an artist from Poreč, or from Istria. I do not belong anywhere. At least, that’s the way I feel, and the feeling is perfect. There is no drawer in which I can be shoved.
Very early on, as a little boy, I defined myself as a painter. From the very beginning, I painted on paper, benches, walls, and in 1999. I graduated in painting.
Today I live my boyhood dream wrapped up in this crazy time in which we live, and on which I did not count on when I was dreaming.
Formal education is, by some, being pushed as an imperative, as an alibi. Going to study art, for me meant leaving the rows and throwing away the rifle to take the brush. It was so long ago, I almost don’t remember the details. I think that being a painter is a job where you are the loneliest. It’s a job by which I communicate with the world, and it’s easy to get misunderstood, but at the same time, art frees me from that solitude and confusion. Some vicious circle.
I want to do something that is rarely done in art. Something that leaves the observer outside their comfort zone when standin...

Eugen Varzic graduated painting at the Department of Fine Arts of the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka (today’s Academy of Applied Arts) 1999. He has exhibited at about 30 solo exhibitions and at more than a hundred group exhibitions at home and abroad. For his art artistic creativity has been rewarded several times. He has conducted various art projects and collaborated on international art projects. He specializes in painting in Madrid, working with Eloy Morales and Antonio Garcia Lopez.
His artistic works are in many public and private venues and in private collections throughout Croatia and the world, as well as in sacral venues.
He is the author of two public sculptures made in mosaic technique, Trosjed and Konfin, set in Poreč, and wall paintings of “Marino Cettina” in Umag.
He is included in lexicons and guides of modern and contemporary art, in Italy and Spain. As one of the five art artists from the Republic of Croatia in 2008, his work entitled Eve (Enfer et Paradis) is included in the Leksikon of Fantastic and Contemporary Art of Europe, by Gerhard Habarte. The same art work was included in the permanent exhibition of the Museum of Fantasy Art in Vienna.
He occasionally deals with design, illustration and painting of ...

2021. Gradska galerija Labin, The End

2021. Umjetnička galerija Dubrovnik, Sve su ti slike OK

2019. Muzej grada Pakraca, Pakrac, Ludus

2019. Galerija 5 kula, Motovun, Ludus

2019. GUGSB, Slavonski Brod, Ludus

2019. Galerija Sv.Krševana, Šibenik, Ludus

2019. Galerija Laval Nugent, Zagreb Ludus

2019. Muzej Đakovštine, Đakovo, Ludus
2018. Galerija Bruketa 2, Rijeka, Summoning

2018.Lošinjski muzej, Galerija Fritzi, Mali Lošinj, Prizivanje

2017.Marktgemeindeamt, St.Mihael bei Bleiburg, Summoning

2014.Galerija Fonticus, Grožnjan, Vizualizacije trenutaka

2014. Galerija Sebastian, Dubrovnik, NOIR

2014. Galerija Alvona, Labin, NOIR

2014. Galerija Kopjar, Zagreb, NOIR

2014. Galerija Bruketa 2, Rijeka, NOIR

2012.Galerija Zvonimir, Zagreb, Drugi svijet

2012.Istarska sabornica, Poreč, Drugi svijet

2012.Palača Sponza, Dubrovnik, Drugi svijet

2010.Turistički informativni centar, Pula, Weltsmertz

2010.Galerija Škola, Barban; Sanjajući Istru

2009.Galerija SINCICH, Višnjan, A.D.2009

2009.Crkva Sv.Ivana, Vižinada, Skice za Verše

2009.Galerija Zgor Murve, Funtana, Cirkus

2007.Likovni salon Vladimir Becić, Slavonski Brod, Enfer et Paradis

2006.Galerija CEKAO, Zagreb, Slike iz Abl...