Untitled (after Giovanni di Pietro) - (from the series Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough) (2015) by Victor Manla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
'Victor Man Born in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1974. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Cluj-Napoca.'
Untitled (from the series Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough) (2015) by Victor Manla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
'While Man adapts the composition and the iconography of his source paintings, he dramatically manipulates light and shadow.'
Untitled (after Domenico Veneziano) (from the series Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough) (2015) by Victor Manla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
'He lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Cluj-Napoca.'
Untitled (from the series Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough) (2014/2015) by Victor Manla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
'He lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Cluj-Napoca. Only gradually does the eye find its bearings as the contours of the images emerge from the black, gray, and green tones of Victor Man's intimate, small-format paintings.'
Untitled (from the series Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough) (2015) by Victor Manla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
'The gender ambiguity of the main figure reveals Man's interest in the Surrealists and their experiments with gender-bending imagery. Some of Man's recent works, presented at the 56th Biennale di Venezia, are based on paintings from the Italian proto-Renaissance.'
Untitled (after Giovanni di Pietro) (from the series Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough) (2015) by Victor Manla Biennale di Venezia - Biennale Arte 2015
'The space that opens up under the cover of darkness within Man's works leads viewers into a mysterious world that merges the mundane and the fantastical, mythology and fetish, individual experience and art-historical references, male and female, man and beast.'
