Nicolae Haiu is an intense Romanian artist who cannot be approached light-heartedly. In fact, there are multiple complex layers of interpretation that one must enter, experience and traverse to fully capture the essence of such an extraordinary artist.
There is a long and noble tradition that acknowledges the cross modal nature of art, from Goethe through to Mondrian and Kandinsky and in fact, Haiu himself describes his work as “visual music”; a description that perfectly illustrates the graceful fluidity of his work. A young mixed media artist whose work is elementally informed by his spiritual beliefs. The crisis at the heart of human interaction with the natural world, the erosion of morality, these are themes that figure prominently in the cosmology of Nicolae Haiu.
Haiu’s choices are fundamental. The choice of media highlights his eclectic abilities and capabilities; the choice of colour creates a powerfully dramatic and significant effect; the choice of subject is inspired by a free flowing motion of the hand that evolves into Surrealist elements of conscious/subconscious nature; the choice of the structural harmonic architecture of the artworks are like Dadaist breakouts from the bonds of ratiocination – reality is dismembered, overturned and transmuted into an almost inscrutable visual metaphrastic composition.
Nicolae’s search for that mystical existing or non-existent point, conjunction, union between the biotic and the mechanical; his pursuit of the symphony within the cacophony, is a passionate enterprise that questions our coherences and vehemently turns them into doubts. We know not where we stand when facing Haiu’s artworks, he challenges our steadfastness in an extreme attempt to wake our consciousness to the distance we have created between the temporal and spatial cosmic extremities.
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES | 2012 – 2014 | Master Degree in Graphics, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2012 | Bachelors, Graphics Faculty, National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania 2008-2011 | student of the National University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania |
OTHER STUDIES | Academy of Cosmohumanism, Kiev, Ukraine; Universal Healing Tao School, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Radiant Technique School, Bucharest, Romania; Qi Gong, Tao Yin, Kendo, badminton, swimming; |
EXHIBITIONS (group) | 2017 – Russian Design Week, Moscow, Russia 2017 – London biennale, UK, Chelsea Hall 2015 – Bucharest, Romania, “Exhibition of Romanian Graphics ‘15” 2015 – Chianciano biennale, Italy, Art Museum 2014 – Bucharest, Stirbei Palace, “Diploma” Exhibition 2014 – Stuttgart, Germany, Italian Cultural Institute 2014 – Bucharest, Romania, “Exhibition of Romanian Graphics ‘14” 2014 – Cerveira, Portugalia, rezidence and exhibition 2014 – Spoleto, Italy, International Festival of Art 2013 – Chianciano biennale, Art Museum, Italy 2013 – Chishinev biennale, Moldova 2007 – Sinaia, Romania, Memorial House “George Enescu” 2007 – Brashov, Romania, National exhibition-competition, art of post 2007 – Sibiu, Romania, National exhibition-competition of traditional icons 2007 – Sibiu, Romania, National exhibition-competition of traditional masks 2007 – Bucharest, Romania, Municipal exhibition of traditional icons 2007 – Bucharest, Romania, Municipal exhibition of traditional masks |
AWARDS AND DIPLOMAS FOR PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES |
2017 – First Prize of the Russian Design Week Comité, Moscow, Russia 2017 – First Prize of the International Confederation of Art Critics, London, UK 2015 – The Leonardo Award, Special mention for Excellence at Chianciano Biennale, Italy 2013 – The Leonardo Award, Special mention for Excellence at Chianciano Biennale, Italy 2013 – Certificate for artistic merit, Chianciano Art Museum, Italy 2013 – Special mention for Excellence, Chianciano Art Museum, Italy 2008 – Diploma for III-th prize at the National exhibition-competition of traditional icons, Sibiu, Romania 2008 – Diploma for I-th prize at the National exhibition-competition of traditional masks, Sibiu, Romania 2008 – Special Award at the Municipal exhibition-competition of traditional icons, Bucharest, Romania 2008 – Diploma for I-th prize at the Municipal exhibition-competition of traditional masks, Bucharest, Romania 2007 – Special Award at the exhibition “The angels of our hopes”, National Library “Ion Creanga”, Bucharest, Romania 2007 – Diploma for excellence at the exhibition-competition “Dalog between generations”, Sinaia, Romania 2007 – Diploma and Special Award at the Art exhibition-competition “Journey to the post’s world”, Brashov, Romania 2007 – Diploma for II-d prize at the National exhibition-competition of traditional icons, Sibiu, Romania 2007 – Diploma for I-th prize at the National exhibition-competition of traditional masks, Sibiu, Romania |
OTHER PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES | Psycho-informatiologist predictor; Radiant Technique practitioner; Universal Healing Tao practitioner; Diploma for 2-d prize at the National badminton Competition; |