Vasile Hutopilă
Vasile Hutopila (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Готопи́ло) born March 17, 1953 in Izvoarele Sucevei (Ізвори), Suceava County, Bukovina, Romania, is a contemporary Romanian painter of Ukrainian ethnicity. His works belong to impressionism.
Awards
- 1983 - 3rd place at Cântarea României festival - the county final
- May 20, 1985 - 1st place at the Participation, development, peace art festival in Braşov, awarded by the Committee of Socialist Education and Culture of Braşov County
- 1985 - 2nd place at Cântarea României festival - the county final
- 1985 - 2nd place at the most important Romanian arts festival under the communist rule, Cântarea României, in the national final, representing Braşov County
- 1987 - 2nd place in the national final of Cântarea României festival, representing Vaslui County
- 1987 - participation diploma at the Graphic Virtues of the Romanian Landscape national painting exhibition in Constanţa
- 1988 - participation diploma at the Graphic Virtues of the Romanian Landscape national painting exhibition in Constanţa
- 1989 - participation diploma at the Artur Verona national festival, Dorohoi, Botoşani County
- In May 1997, at the 4th edition of The Bukovinian International Salon of Photography it was awarded the Vasile Hutopilǎ Special Award to one of the competitors, as a sign of gratitude to the Bukovinian Hutsul painter
- May 7, 2002 - 1st place at The Holy Easter in Bukovina festival, for Byzantine icons, in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, South Bukovina, awarded by the Town Hall
- December 2002 - participation diploma at the exhibition in honour of Câmpulung Moldovenesc being named health resort of national interest, awarded by the Town Hall
- May 9, 2010 - 1st place at Il raduno mongolfiere in Calabria - Estemporanea di pittura, Santo Stefano di Rogliano (CS)
Exhibitions
Some of Vasile Hutopila's exhibitions, from his debut exhibition, in 1975, to the most recent one, in 2003, as part of the important folklore festival Întâlniri bucovinene, which takes part each year in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary and Germany, reuniting the Poles, Hungarians, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Czechs, Russians, who left from Bukovina and the ones who still live in Bukovina.
- individual exhibitions
- Câmpulung Moldovenesc (1975, 1979, 1981, 1995, 2003), of which, the most important in July 2003, as part of Întâlniri bucovinene / Bukowińskie Spotkania / Буковинські зустрічі festival, at the Wooden Art Museum in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, varnished by prof. dr. Ion Filipciuc, haiku poet
- Braşov (1983, 1984)
- Bucharest (1985)
- Negreşti, Vaslui County (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994)
- Iaşi (1989)
- group exhibitions
- May 1983, Braşov
- March 1984, Braşov
- December 1986, Anuala '86, Vaslui
- November 28–29, 1987, Virtuţi plastice ale peisajului românesc, Constanţa; vernissage by prof. Ion Sǎlişteanu, painter
- December 1987, Anuala '87, Vaslui, at the Arta hall of the Ştefan cel Mare County Museum; vernissage by prof. Ion Sǎlişteanu, painter
- June 6–12, 1988, Sǎptǎmâna culturii şi educaţiei socialiste, Negreşti
- 1988, Virtuţi plastice ale peisajului românesc, Constanţa
- December 1988, Anuala '88, Vaslui
- March 21–30, 1989, Decada artelor, Vaslui, vernissage by art critic Valentin Ciucǎ
- June 5–11, 1989, Sǎptǎmâna culturii şi educaţiei socialiste, Negreşti
- December 1989, Anuala '89, Vaslui, vernissage by art critic Valentin Ciucǎ
- December 1990, Anuala '90, Vaslui
- December 1992, Anuala '92, Vaslui
- December 1993, Anuala '93, Vaslui
- November 21–27, 1994, Sǎptǎmâna culturalǎ a oraşului Negreşti, Negreşti; vernissage by Doina Rotaru
- December 1994, Anuala '94, Vaslui
- October 1–4, 1993, Negreşti
- November 29 - December 30, 1997, Salonul de toamnǎ târzie, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, vernissage by prof. dr. Ion Filipciuc, haiku poet
- May 5–7, 2002, Sǎrbǎtoarea Sfintelor Paşti în Bucovina, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
- December, 2002, BTT, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
- May 7–9, 2010, Il raduno mongolfiere in Calabria - mostra di pittura, in the historical centre of Santo Stefano di Rogliano (CS)
What art critics say
- Vasile Hutopila's paintings are a serene representation, a victory of the aesthetic truth, equivalent to the humanist love of the universe. Trembling of chromatic intensities, sensitively reduced in tonalities of grey colour in a trajectory of spirituality, of contemporary art. (Ion Vulcan, Bucharest 1987)
- Vasile Hutopila is an abstemious who tends unto the chromatic asceticism and the essence of the purified structures. Situated at the junction between sketch and watercolour, his art is organically unitary and it has an attentively watched colour distribution. (Aurel Leon, Cronica, Iaşi 21 July 1989, after one of the rare watercolour exhibitions of Hutopilǎ, who usually uses oil on canvas technique)
Works in media and books
Graphics and cartoons in journals and magazines:
- Oferta, Vaslui
- To be, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
- Gazeta de Câmpulung, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
- Miezul lucrurilor, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
Graphics in books:
- George Ungureanu, Pǎţania lui Pişpiricǎ, Braşov, 2003
- Alexandru Bogza, Antinomii tonale, Biblioteca Miorița, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, 2006
- Decebal Alexandru Seul, Muntele din beznă, Bacǎu, 2008
Mass Media
You can see below some of the newspapers, magazines, TV channels and radio stations to which Vasile Hutopilǎ gave interviews, from the early '80s till present
- newspapers
- Karpatenrundschau, German newspaper in Braşov
- Astra, Braşov
- Drum nou, Braşov
- Clopotul, Botoşani
- Vremea nouǎ, Vaslui - the most part of the articles on Vasile Hutopilǎ
- Zori noi, Suceava
- Contemporanul, Bucharest
- Cronica, Iaşi
- Gazeta de Câmpulung, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
- Crai nou, Suceava
- Monitorul de Suceava, Suceava
- Bucovina, Suceava
- Oferta, Vaslui
- Adevǎrul, Bucharest
- Evenimentul, Iaşi
- Mezzoeuro, Cosenza
- Voce ai giovani Catanzaro
- magazines
- Gazeta de Câmpulung - Almanah 2002, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
- Clubul Copiilor şi Elevilor 40, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
- TV broadcasting channels
- TVR 1, the Romanian national television channel - 1989
- TVR Iaşi - 1993, 1994
- Agapia Elgy TV, Câmpulung Moldovenesc - 1995
- radio stations
- Radio Nord 100.7 FM, Câmpulung Moldovenesc - 2004, 2005
Countries in which there are paintings of Vasile Hutopilă in private collections
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Palestina
- Romania
- Spain
- Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates
- United States of America
See also
- Hutsuls
- a list of Hutsul people
- Bukovina
- impressionism
- Carpathian Mountains