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The Cinderella

The Cinderella is the latest vision of Victor
Hagea - the iconic reflection of our dystopia,

where dystopia (from the Greek dys =

illness; topos = space) is the reflection of our

postmodern condition. Briefly described, the

dystopic vision is, at once, the grace and the
dread we encounter by being confronted with

our hopeless impossibility to become free. This

perception is so overwhelming, and so powerfully
contained in the majestic iconography of the

image. It comes out from the very paradox of

the representation. The sublime body of the

Cinderella is paradoxically imprisoned into

her translucent, yet iron-like, crystal palace.
The female body has some exquisitely unreal

beauty, placed into the exquisitely glorious

space - a translucent vision that no brush might
be able to catch in its immaterial substance.

Yet nothing proved impossible so far for Victor

Hagea’s masterly hand. Cinderella is the latest

stage in Hagea’s creation, in terms of both,

thinking, as well as of making the image. It is a
philosophical meditation on human condition,

brought into the visible by his magic hand. One

could devote a whole chapter to the study of
Hagea’s metaphysical technicality of image, in
The Translucent which the magic touch makes matter instantly

be transfigured under his brush. Indeed, Hagea’s
Ashes of Postmodern pictorial skills reach here, in the Cinderella, its

utmost expression by attempting to depict the
Dystopia un-depictable. But he not only attempts, but

56 he graciously succeeds to visualize that which