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It's a shame
to die for a dream
and it's doubtful to
love a woman
Good books have been
no more ideas...
...
Tears of blood in
angel's eyes
no desire, a wax turlight...
In silence, I bend
before the fire
And the time throws
me out of my home.
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ADRRESS:
Igor Isac
ORAVITA- Caras Severin / ROMANIA,
tel: +40.0255.571248, Oravita, Casa de cultura
Born the 10th of March 1957 in Oliscani, Soldanesti district,
Republic of Moldavia
1972-1976 Attended the courses ofthe College of FineArts in Chisinau
1984-1990 Attented the courses of the University of Fine Arts in Tallin,
Estonia
1995-1998 Art director of the "Confluente" review in Oravita
1999 Appointed member of the Artists Union of Romania (UAP)
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S:
1986 - Chisinau, The Autumn Salon of the Artist Union of Moldavia
1987 - Tallin, the University of Fine Arts
1988 - Moscow, the National Art Salon
1988 - Koln (Germany), Art Gallery of the Town Council
1990 - lasi, "Victoria" Art Gallery
1991 - Chisinau, "Limba noastra" Exhibition
1992-1998 Bacău and Chisinău Moldavian Salon
1997-1998 Resițta, International Salon of Contemporary Art
P E R S O N A L E X H I B I T I O N S:
1993 - Bistrita, the History Museum
1993 - Zalau, the Art Gallery
1994 - Oradea, "Tara Crisurilor" Museum
1994 - Baia Mare, the Painters Camp
1994 - Cluj, the Art Museum
1994 - Timisoara, the Banat Museum
1994 - Resița, "Agora" Gallery - "Looking forAn Identity"
1994 - Oravița, the Culture House
1994 - Arad, "Clio" Art Gallery
1995 - Lugoj, "Pro Domo" Gallery
1995 - Caransebes, the History Museum of the Border Regiment -
1995 - Oradea, the Army House - "Transylvanian Landscape"
1995 - Cluj, the Institute for Linguistics Library
1995 - Baia Mare, UAP Art Gallery
1995 - Oravita, "Mihai Eminescu" Culture House - "My Oravița"
1996 - Oravita, "The Poet's Traces"
1997 - Oravita, "Writers' Portraits"
S Y M P O S I U M:
1995 - International Painting Camp, Oravita
1994-1997 - International Poetry Camp, Oravita
CHURCH RESTORATION AND MURAL PAINTING
1990 - Peresecina (Orhei), "Trei lerarhi" Church
1992 - Budesti (Criuleni) "Adormirea Maicii Domnului" Church
1994 - Oravita, "Sfîntul llie" Church
1995 - Petrilova, "Sfînta Maria" Church
1997 - Oravita, the Greek-Catholic Church
1998 - Vermes, the Greek-Catholic Church
1998 - Vraniut, "Adormirea Maicii Domnului" Church
1998 - Sasca-Montană, "Constantin si Elena" Church
From symbolical and geometrical metamor-phosis of the archetype to classical portrait or still life painting a wide and rather confusing variety of stylistical apertures and also a great display of matricial cultural horizons characte-rizes the art of the young painter Igor Isac.
It is not an easy thing to define his work, which intermingles the poetical perspective of his peculiar predilection towards mythology, the grave and severe notes of his cromatical palette which as a matter of fact lacks osten-tation but also develops a cult for gorgeous gold used as an element ofChristian exaltation and, the most important of all, a thrill of melancholy belonging to the blooming trees and also to the dreamlike looks of the women and other beings outlined in his paintings.
Considering his biography without didac-ticism, 1 may say that this artist of a remote latinity has discovered his vocation into the Baltical German strictness without leaving out the neighbourhood of the Slave world, who perceives the universe through the eyes of an emphasizing mysticism.
RAZVAN TEODORESCU
Without being an experimentalist, the painter is sometimes fascinated by famous patterns which he draws nearby with a certain amount of care and even fear. In most cases he is saved by his creative instinct which converts the danger of imitation into pure originality. Igor Isac tries to explore the very limits of a deeply rooted symbolism, giving a new lifeto ancientfetishes. Here is a sensible but no less proud way of rendering homage to Creation. The painter relies on colour and its endless limpidity and he excells in exposing striking images originated in two major sources: the memories time has gathered together and the artist's dream of giving those memories a special metaphysical halo. This is why Igor Isac knows very well how to do a mythical and poetical transcription ofthe world. Behind it there is an artistic martyrdom the painter bravelytakes upon himself by means of looking forward to ethics and aesthetics.
CORNELIU OSTAHIE
A plastic artist, Igor Isac's views were formed in the period of sinistre times. But the liberty breeze of the Baltic Sea did him good. He has a tematic passion for mythical phenomena, but it doesn't take him away from the present. On the contrary he tries to make a legend be closer
to the modern times, renewing eternal moral values.
The stylistic manner of the painter, over-crowded by invisible contours, shows the ele-ments used in the spirit of a modern technique. Conceptually he seems to adhere to the meta-physical trend. Vis-a-vis Vrubel, in his painting only a shadow from the classical demon was left, that seems to be thawing in the light. It's only sometimes that obscure nuances remind us of a
fatal and existcntial history, that permanently threatens Harmony.
The characters from the painter's canvases remain in a sinuous expectation. Their destinies are burnt up by two states of mind: their revolt and their consolation, equilibrated by a future that can hardly be anticipated by hope... Our eternal nostalgy for Ideal!
LUCRETIU DOMULGEANU
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