Vasile Hutopilă

Vasile Hutopilă (Ukrainian: 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.

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Early years

Vasile Hutopilă grew up in the superbe mountain village Izvoarele Sucevei (Izvory), among his Ukrainian 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 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 Artaand 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

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 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.

What art critics say

Works in media and books

Graphics and cartoons in journals and magazines:

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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

Countries in which there are paintings of Vasile Hutopilă in private collections

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