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The Children of

One thing must be said from the beginning.
Victor Hagea has a kind of conflicting and Chronos

inimical relation with time, more exactly,

with the Chrono(s)-logical Time. This

adversity towards chronological time could

be described as some state of mind and
being in the world. Shortly, it is a matter

of either, to be possessed by Time, or to

possess it. In Hagea’s ontology, the human
condition unfolds between these two states

of being: the condition of “man under

Time” and of “man subjugating Time” or

“time being subjugated by Man.” Time is

a “relative matter” anyways, confessed the
artist in one of our philosophical chats, to

which I will further refer. “If I am outside

time – he said – I am the Master of Time: I
find myself in the Absolute. One must by all

means remain outside time and not allow to

be possessed by it. Then, one is free.”

There is not one single painting in Hagea’s

creation that is not ontologically implicated.

Creation is for him a mode of personal
ontological clarification. But the painting

The Children of Chronos seems to touch

upon a most crucial aspect with existential

relevance for the artist. It contains his credo

as an artist, as a man-artist in the world.
His credo carries inevitably the fear against

anything that might threaten his freedom The Sunset of God-Time

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