Timisoara Branch
of the Fine Arts Union of Romania
Luigi Stefan Varga
[1951-2021]
Sculptor

Born on the 8th october 1951 in Vinga/Arad, Romania.

Graduated the Institute of Fine Arts "ION ANDREESCU" from Cluj, 1982 section sculpture and restauration, under the guidance of the Majesty the Prof. Arthur Vetro.

Member of the Fine Arts Union from Romania.
Member of the Fine Arts Union from Hungary.

Exhibitional debut in the year 1977.

Exihibits in group, collective and personal exhibitions in official art show rooms in the country and after the year 1989 outside the country.

Group and collective exhibitions: County art exhibition, Arad (1977); the exhibition "THE FIGURE OF THE MAN" in the preoccupations of the artists, Arad (1978); Fine Arts exhibition "SPRING IN ARAD", IX. edition, Arad (1978); Fine Art exhibition of the art youth circel from Arad, in Timisoara (1979); the exhibition dedicated to the "THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE CHILDREN", Arad (1979); Fine Arts exhibition "THE IMAGE OF THE MAN THE FINE ARTS", Arad (1980); the Fine Arts exhibition "THE MAN AND THE WORK", Arad (1980); the Fine Arts exhibition "THE TREE", Arad (1980); County exhibition of Fine Arts, Arad (1980); Students exhibition of Fine Arts, Cluj (1980); County art exhibition, Arad (1981); Coanty exhibition of the youth circel Arad (1981); County art show room dedicated to the "PEACE", Arad (1981); Student art exhibition, Cluj-Napoca (1981); Republican exhibition of the art of the students, Bukarest (1981); Art exhibition dedicated to the "ELIBERATION DAYS", Arad (1981); Republican art exhibition of the students with the titel "THE ENVIRONMENT", Sfantul Gheorghe (1981); Art exhibition from Oradea, in Oroshaza/Hungary (1981); County art exhibition, Resita (1982); Art exhibition between the counties, Timisoara (1982); County art exhibition, Resita (1983); Art exhibition between the counties, Timisoara (1983); County art exhibition, Resita (1984); National art show room for small sculptures, Bukarest (1985); Fine Arts exhibition branch Timisoara in Bukarest (1985); County art exhibition, Resita (1985); Art show room between the counties, Timisoara (1987); Art exhibition "MOZAIC", Timisoara (1987); National art show room for small sculptures, Arad(1987); Art show room between the counties, Timisoara (1988); Art exhibition "MOZAIC", Timisoara (1988); National exhibition for small sculptures, Bukarest (1988); Biennial exhibition for small sculptures, Arad (1989); Yearly art show room, Timisoara (1989)l; Art exhibition "MOZAIC", Timisoara (1989); Art exhibition "FREEDOM", Timisoara (1990); Representative art exhibition of the artists from Timisoara in Szeged/Hungary (1990); Art exhibition "MOZAIC", Timisoara (1990); Summer art show room, Timisoara (1990); Representative exhibition of the artists from Timisoama, in Essen/Germany (1991); Spring art show room, Timisoara (1991); Romanian art exhibition, Geneva/Switzerland (1991); Exhibition "STATE WITHOUT TITEL", Timisoara (1991); Spring art show room, Timisoara (1992); Art exhibition of the artists from Timisoara in Szeged/Hungary (1992); Yearly art show room, Timisoara (1992); Biennial exhibition for small sculptures, Budapest/Hungary (1992); Art exhibition of the artists from Timisoara in Szeged/Hungary (1993); Spring exhibition, Timisoara (1993); Yearly art show room, Timisoara (1993); Exhibition "COLLECTIONS", Csongrad/ Hungary (1993); Spring exhibition, Timisoara (1994); Biennial exhibition for small sculptures, Arad (1994); Exhibition "HOLOKAUS", Szegszard/Hungary; Exhibition for small sculptures, Sopron/Hungary (1994); Biennial exhibition for small sculptures, Budapest/Hungary; International art exhibition Darmstadt/Germany (1994); Spring exhibition, Timisoara (1994); Yearly art show room, Timisoara (1994); Art exhibition of the artists from Timisoara in Szeged/Hungary (1995); Group exhibition, Csongrad/Hungary (1995); International art exhibition, Darmstadt/Germany (1995); Collective exhibition of the artists from Timisoara in Essen/Germany; Yearly art show room, Timisoara (1995); Biennial drawing exhibition, Arad (1995); Exhibition of hungarian artists from Timisoara, in Budapest (1996); Exhibition "KORPUS", Kaposvar/Hungary (1996); Biennial exhibition for smnall sculptures. Budapest/Hungary (1996); Group exhibition. Csongrad/Hungary (1996); Art show room, Szeged/Hungary (1996); Biennial exhibition for srmall sculptures, Arad (1996); Yearly art exhibition, Timisoara (1996); Biennial drawing exhibition, Arad (1997); International art exhibition Darmstadt/Germany (1997); Yearly art show room, Szeged/Hungary (1997); Group exhibition, Csongrad/Hungary (1997); Yearly art show room, Timisoara (1997); Yearly art show room, Timisoara (1998); the XXX. National Art Show Room, exhibition of the prize-winners, Szeged/Hungary; Yearly art show room, Timisoara (1999).

Personal exhibitions: Art gallery "ALFA", Arad (1980); gallery "AGORA", Resita (1984); gallery "PROARTE", Lugoj (1987); gallery "AGORA", Resita (1987); Municipal gallery Bacau (1987); gallery "ATELIER 35", Iasi (1987); University house, Timisoara (1987); Art museum "MORA FERENC", Szeged/Hungary (1991); gallery "HELIOS", Timisoara (1991); City gallery Kiskunfelghyhaza/Hungary (1992); Town Hall Csongrad/Hungary (1993); Students’ House from Karlsruhe/Germany (1996); City gallery Csongrad/Hungary (1996); Foyer of the hotel METROPOL, Luzem/Switzerland (1998).

Creation camps: Targoviste/Romania, stone (1985); Csongrad/Hungary, bronze, wood and drawing (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997); Backa Topola/Yugoslavia, bronze and drawing (1994); Mirabel/France, wood, bronze and drawing (1995-1997).

Monumental art works: Bustpicture "TOMA CARAGIU", Cluj-Napoca (1982); Frieze "THE ALEGORY OF THE ARTS", Culture House Otelul Rosu (1984); Frieze "HISTORY OF THE NATION", Foyer of the hotel Roman, spa Herculane (1986); Bustpicture "HENRI COANDA", Timisoara (1994); Monumental picture "IOSIF VELCEANU", Art museum Resita (1994); Monumental picture "NUNI ANESTIN", Bukarest (1994); Portrait "ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA", Timisoara (1995); Bustpicture "IOACHIM MILOIA", Timisoara (1995); Memorial monument "THEODOR BUCURESCU", Sannicolau-Mare (1995), Bustpicture "ELENA GHIBA-BIRTA", Arad (1995); Heroic monument, Mosnita-Noua (1995); Heroic monument, Denta (1995); Monumental picture "NICHITA STANESCU", County Library Resita (1996); Monumental picture "FRANYO ZOLTAN", Timisoara (1996); Bustpicture "DR. ANTAL JOZSEF", former Prime Minister of Hungary, Csongrad/Hungary (1997); Bustpicture "M. MEINHARDT", Darmstadt/Germany (1997); Well "SEASONS", Hungary (1997).

Sculptures at the theatre performance "D-ALE CARNAVALULUI", production I. Manolescu.

Awards:
Prize "PRO-ARTE" for sculpture, Yearly art show room (1994), Art museum Timisoara with the work "LAST DINNER", wood and bronze, dimension 0.70x3.20x1.20 m.
Prize for sculpture, Yearly art show room (1997), Art museum "MORA FERENC", Szeged/Hungary with the work "STUDIES OF A HILL", wood, dimension 0.35x1.40x1.40 m.

Documentation and practice in the technology of the artistic pouring (technology Cire-Perdue), Hungary (1991-1993).

Lector at the West University from Timisoara, faculty Fine Art, section sculpture (1995-1998).

Restauration works: Romanic Mikromuseum, Hotel Roman spa Herculane (1986); Barock work, Art museum Timisoara (1987-1989).

Medals, booklets, trophies for different cultural, art, sport and memorial performances, symposiums, anniversaries (bronze, wood, stone, glas, resin).

Decoration and cult objects, applied art, inner design.

Funeral monuments: figure composition, busts, picture ronde-bosse and reliefs (stone and bronze).

Artesian well (stone, fake stone, processed marble and bronze).

Pictures ronde-bosse and reliefs of personalities: historical: Stefan the Great, Mircea the Old, Michael the Brave, Vlad Tepes, King Ferdinand I., Saint Stefan, Napoleon, Nicolae Balcescu, Rasputin, Nicolae lorga; science: Einstein, Edison, Darwin, Victor Babes, Pasteur, Aurel Vlaicu, Traian Vuia, Henri Coanda, Karl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud, C.D. Loga, Jean Jaques Cousteau; literature: Eminescu, Blaga, Calinescu, Eliade, Shakespeare, Goethe, Puskin, Tolstoi, Dostoievski, Nichita Stanescu, Tutea, Cioran, Noica, Steinhardt, Kafka, Kazantzakis, Thomas Mann, Lenau, G.G. Marquez; music: Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Schumann, Tschaikowski, Strauss, Bruckner, Enescu, Porumbescu, Celibidache, Bernstein, Stravinski, Kodaly, Bartok, Liszt, Musorgsky, Verdi, Paganini Pucini, Ravel, Bizet, Maler, Iosif Velceanu, Ion Vidu; Jazz: Luis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson, Billy Holliday, Jimmi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, Edith Piaf; art: C. Brancoveanu, Brancusi, Dali, Giacometi, Picasso, J. Miro, Modigliani, Gaudi, Van Gogh, G. Apostu, Corbousier; theatre and film: Felini, Tarkovsky, F. Zefirelli, Bertolucci, G. V. Birlic, Luis des Funes, Fernandel, T. Caragiu, C. Chaplin.

Personal and state collection for works in the land and outside: Austria, Canada, Switzerland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Mexic Netherland, Spain, United States of America, Hungary.

Contact: Timişoara - România
Phone/Fax: +40 (0)256 291087
Mobile: +40 (0)745 406913
E-mail: vargapop@yahoo.com
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