Valentin Funny

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Valentin Lustig (born October 7, 1955 in Cluj-Napoca , Romania ) is an artist from Transylvania (Romania) . He has lived in Switzerland since 1983 . His art ranges from naive to surrealistic- fantastic and contains numerous allusions to mythical and biblical subjects. As a child of Holocaust survivors, Lustig also thematizes the fate of the Jewish people. But this is not explicitly expressed, since he uses an individual and symbolic imagery that reaches into the grotesque and allows for various interpretations.

The infinite ascent to the Alps, 110 × 80 cm, 1999
Landscape fantasy with the flight into Egypt and the ruins of Bözödújfalu, 90 × 120 cm, 2004
Susanne and the other two old people, 120 × 90 cm, 2002

Life

Valentin Lustig was born on October 7, 1955 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. In 1974 he emigrated to Israel with his parents. From 1977 to 1982 he studied painting at the Art Academy in Florence. Since 1983 he has lived as a painter in Zurich. At the beginning of 1989 he published the fantastic satirical novel Piramida lui Mulgăreanu (Romanian for: The Pyramid of Mulgăreanu ) in the exiled Romanian publishing house Nord in Aarhus (Denmark ). Here a polemical discussion of the Ceaușescu dictatorship in Romania takes place.

His seven-part painting cycle Hoka-Néni was exhibited in the years 2003-2004 in the Frick Museum in Pittsburgh, the Ernst Museum in Budapest, the Hongrois Institute in Paris and the YU Museum in New York.

In creative collaboration with the Swiss writer Urs Widmer , he created the book Valentin Lustigs Pilgerreise, report of a walk through 33 of his paintings , which was published in 2008 by Diogenes Verlag Zurich.

Exhibitions

  • 1994: Binz 39, Zurich; Gallery Pennarz (old school), Gundamsried; Pfaffenhofen (Germany)
  • 1996: Galerie Stubnitz Kontor, Zurich
  • 1997: Allmedia Productions, Zurich
  • 1998: Hewlett Gallery , College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh (USA)
  • 2003: The Frick Art & Historical Center , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania (USA)
  • 2004: Institut Hongrois de Paris, Paris
  • 2004: Dorottya Gallery (Ernst Museum), Budapest (Hungary)
  • 2005: Lebewohlfabrik, Zurich
  • 2006/2007: Yeshiva University Museum, New York City (USA)
  • 2007: Cooperativo, Zurich
  • 2008: Galerie Hauptmann and Kampa, Zurich

Selection of works

  • Piramida lui Mulgăreanu. , Verlag Nord, Aarhus Denmark, 1989, ISBN 87-88398-32-3 .
  • Painting 1997. , published by Lustig / Allmedia Productions, Zurich, 1997.
  • Beauty conquers time and vice versa. Edited by Lustig / Schuster, Zurich and Frankfurt am Main 1999.

literature

  • Achim Hagemeier: 20 years of the Hagemeier Gallery. , Frankfurt am Main, 2000.
  • Edith Balas: The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig. Carnegie Melon University Press, Pittsburgh, 2002, ISBN 0-88748-373-9 .
  • Edith Balas: Hoka-Néni, Seven Paintings by Valentin Lustig. Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, 2003, ISBN 0-9703425-7-8 .
  • Urs Widmer: Valentin Lustig's pilgrimage. Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-257-06634-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Funny, valentine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Cluj-Napoca