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Light and shadow are powerful means of Victor Hagea’s painting Lights and Shadows

destruction and resurrection of painting. They shares in many ways the same artistic credo

destroy the mere re-presentation of a story, in as Caravaggio. His poetic of image holds that
order to bring forth the unique moment of life radical and passionate aura. It brings forth

of creation in its utmost presence, in which in this painting a Venetian drama, which is a

painting shows its power as presentation. drama without a particular narrative, but the

Light and shadow provide that unique pleasure suspension in time of a magic momentum. This
of the contemplation of the moment, in which is the moment when lights meets shadows to

painting comes forth as sacrosanct instant. In create a universe of erosion, mystery and mist

short, this binomial opposition turns painting – an erotic space of dissolution. Hagea’s Light

into a moment of presence, a presentation, and Shadows is the instantiation of painting
radically distinct from mere re-presentation. A as a poetical state of mind, the immediate

presentation is a story without story, because presentation of the inspiring lofty moment in

it does not properly narrate about something which the hieroglyph-like body of the woman

else, but in which painting itself voices its curves her silhouette in the air, as if eroded by
own story in the present. This is called the the atmospheric mist. Yet she seems to dwell

pregnant moment of painting, in which the so firmly on the squared cube, the only solid

contribution of light and shadow is capital, in object in the picture, albeit a phantasm of

their encounter suspending all time, history, perception, a sublime illusionistic encounter
and story. This is the instance in which art between sharp light and deep shadow. The

overcomes time, making image pregnant with visual game of craft Hagea is playing is a finely

meaning in a continuous present tense. tuned, verging on magical touch of brush.

Nicoletta Isar

25th October 2008

Victor

HAgeA

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