Vasile Hutopilă

Vasile Hutopilă ( _uk. Васи́ль Дми́трович Гутопи́ла) born March 17, 1953 in Izvoarele Sucevei (Ізвори), Suceava County, Bukovina, Romania, is a contemporary Romanian painter of Ukrainian (Hutsul) ethnicity. His works belong to impressionism.

Early years

Vasile Hutopilă grew up in the superbe mountain village Izvoarele Sucevei (Izvory), among his Hutsul co-ethnics. He was taught the Romanian language in school, while his native language was the Hutsul dialect of Ukrainian. He also speaks Polish, at a near-native level. As a teenager, he showed more interest in rock music than in the arts. In fact, he was a member of one of the first rock bands in Bukovina, together with Gică "Bazon" Daşchievici (drums), Mirel Bolohan (guitar and vocals) and Emil "Miluţ" Costea (bass and vocals). He played the guitar and his nickname was "Rusu", which in Romanian means "the Russian", because of his Slavic affiliation. The band didn't have a name; it was just "the Pioneers' House band". They were influenced by bands such as [http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czerwone_Gitary Czerwone Gitary] , 2 plus 1 (both Polish), The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Transsylvania Phoenix. They sang together for about four years; after the band broke up, each member continued in his own direction.

The mirage of Braşov

For young Vasile Hutopilǎ, that was Braşov, one of the most important cultural centres in Transylvania, thanks to his first guide in matter of arts, the extremely talented Bukovinian painter Mircea Rotaru. Hutopilǎ studied there with professors Alexandrina Gheţie and Bella Klement, but his real guide in painture was Neculai Codreanu, who became also his best friend. In Braşov, Vasile Hutopilǎ became very close to other important names in the Romanian painture: Eftimie Modâlcǎ (1936 - 1991) and Grigore Zincovsky. Hutopilǎ graduated the Popular School of Arts (Şcoala Popularǎ de Arte) and started participating to many important festivals and group exhibitions and managing to have his own individual exhibition in Braşov in the mid '80s.

Prolific period in Vaslui

Vasile Hutopilǎ moved to Vaslui in 1986 with his wife and that was the beginning of the most important and prolific period of his career, at least until now. He was a member of the artistic circle "Arta"and won a lot of experience in his 9 years of staying in Vaslui, gathering more participations at exhibitions and festivals than in all the other periods together. He now meets lots of fine artists, especially from Vaslui, Iaşi and Chişinău, and also the Albanian painter Perikli Çuli, from Tirana.

Câmpulung Moldovenesc

Even if the most important period by cultural activities for Vasile Hutopilǎ was the time he lived in Vaslui, his best works, by far, are the ones made after 1995, in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, picturesque town in the Romanian side of Bukovina. In the middle of this heavenly spot of the Carpathians it wasn't hard to find inspiration. His nowadays paintings bring you to another dimension, a dimension of mountain country side, where peace, pure love and communion with nature reign.

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

Exhibitions

Some of Vasile Hutopilǎ's exhibitions, from his debut exhibition, in 1975, to the most recent one, in 2003, as part of the important folklore festival [http://www.pdk.pila.pl/?chapter=id2082 "Întâlniri bucovinene"] , which takes part each year in Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary and Germany, reuniting the Polish, Hungarians, Germans, Romanians, Ukrainians, Slovaks, Czechs, Croatians, Russians, who left from Bukovina and the ones who still live in Bukovina.
*individual exhibitons
*Câmpulung Moldovenesc (1975, 1979, 1981, 1995, 2003), of which, the most important in July 2003, as part of [http://www.pdk.pila.pl/?chapter=id2082 "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

What art critics say

*Vasile Hutopilǎ'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 Hutopilǎ 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 Mioriţa, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, 2006
*Decebal Alexandru Seul, "Muntele din umbrǎ", 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
*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

External links

*e-mail the artist at [e-mail]
* [http://www.evenimentul.ro/articol/cel-mai-mare-judecator.html article in "Evenimentul", Romanian publication]
* [http://www.evenimentul.ro/articol/femeile-si-barbatii-pot.html another article in "Evenimentul"]
* [http://www.vlg.sisnet.ro/arhiva/an2005/4611/cultura.htm article on "Cornel Corcǎcel", Hutopilǎ's student in the early '90s]
* [http://painting_2.tripod.com/Codreanu/index.html painter "Neculai Codreanu"]
* [http://www.crainou.ro/?module=displaystory&story_id=13815&format=html article in "Crai Nou" (Suceava)]
* [http://www.crainou.ro/?module=displaystory&story_id=11482&edition_id=4491&format=html another article in "Crai Nou"]
* [http://www.evenimentul.ro/articol/parfum-de-turte-si-huslinca.html article in "Evenimentul" (Iasi)]

See also

*Hutsuls
*a list of Hutsul people
*Bukovina
*impressionism
*Carpathian Mountains