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Artist | Artwork | Price (incl. premium) |
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Victor Man | Untitled (Auguri) | €18.750 |
Born in 1974 in Cluj (now Cluj-Napoca) in Romania, Victor Man enrolled at the art academy in his home city at the end of the 1990s, but left just two years later to go to Israel, where he attended the private art school of Israel Hershberg (born 1948). During this time, he lived in the St Claire monastery in Jerusalem's New Town and painted many motifs from nature in the monastery garden, following the figurative line of his teacher Hershberg. In 2004, Man returned to Cluj-Napoca and completed his studies with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. The following year, Man began to consistently change his painterly approach; he slowed down the creation process of his painting in favour of a methodical conception that was accompanied by a deeper symbolic content. This decision made the artist's work harder to grasp, darker, and more mysterious.
Victor Man often prefers a dark colour scheme in his paintings, reminiscent for some critics of 18th century landscape painting, which used black mirrors to obtain dark basic tones from colours. The depicted motifs also remain hazy and imprecise, leaving traces that allow for various interpretations and get lost in the fog. Even temporal categorisation is difficult, Victor Man moves outside fixed and reliable coordinates in a system of personal poetry that oscillates fluidly between original accents and reminiscences. In the pictures, historical facts are mixed with the artist's subjective feelings to create a surreal hybrid world that finds its roots equally in antiquity and modernity - just like man himself. The enigma that runs through Victor Man's pictorial worlds is part of the myth of the artist, who deliberately eludes the curiosity of his audience and is difficult to grasp.
Victor Man has created his own artistic universe, which is attracting growing interest worldwide. In this world, history and the present engage in a dialogue that is as endless as it is fascinating, but the creator refuses all explanations and rarely appears in public. He represented his home country Romania at the Venice Biennale in 2007, together with his compatriots Cristian Pogacean (born 1980), Mona Vatamanu (born 1968) and Florin Tudor (born 1974). Victor Man has received prizes and awards for his art, and in 2014 he was named Artist of the Year by the Deutsche Bank Art Gallery in Berlin. The following year, he took part in the Venice Biennale for a second time and was able to present his work in the exhibition All the World's Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019) in the Central Pavilion.
Victor Man lives and works in Berlin and Cluj-Napoca.
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Do you own a work by Victor Man, which you would like to sell?
Artist | Artwork | Price (incl. premium) |
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Victor Man | Untitled (Auguri) | €18.750 |
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