Bogdan Molea

Bogdan Molea was born 1958 in Bucharest, Romania. He graduated with a Master of Fine Art from the Monumental Art and Restoration Section of the ”Nicolae Grigorescu” Fine Art Institute, Bucharest, in 1984. He worked as a cartoon animation designer at “Animafilm Studio”, Bucharest (1979-1980) and then as a curator and conserver at The National Archeology and History Museum in Constanta (1984-1987). Later, Molea worked as an associated professor at The Fine Arts Institute “Nicolae Grigorescu” (1991-1992). Since 1999 he lives in Toronto, Canada, where he started working as a conceptual artist and also a matte painter at DKP-Toronto. In 2002 he received his diploma in 3D Digital Animation-Maya from Seneca College in Toronto, Canada. In 2001 he worked as a conceptual artist and matte painter at DKP-Toronto and between 2002 and 2004 he taught art at Max the Mutt-Animation School in Toronto.

Bogdan Molea describes his work as “perception” because it involves a personal visual experience where the contrast between reality and utopia generates a spiritual transcendental dimension. The artist explores the concept of perspective and also illusory textile structures which create a ”Virtual Space”. He finds the technical difficulties of realistically rendering the materiality of existing or invented objects challenging, but nonetheless satisfying. ⒸAD

 

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 CONCEPT AND CREATION, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY,
Vienna, Austria
2013 The Catto Gallery, London, Great Britain
2011 GoldArt, Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2010 The Catto Gallery, London, Great Britain
2009 Loch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Loch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 The Catto Gallery, London, Great Britain
2006 Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, Canada
2005 Loch Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2004 The Catto Gallery, London, Great Britain
2003 Inselstuw, Gallery Poel Island, Germany
2002 Peterson Fine Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999 Auf Zeit, Gallery, Wismar, Germany
1998 Inselstuw, Gallery Insel Poel, Germany
1997 Inselstuw” Gallery – Insel Poel – Germany
1993 Gijzenrooy Gallery, Geldrop, Holland
1992 Caminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2022 ART VIENNA, art fair, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Orangerie, Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria
2021 ART INNSBRUCK, art fair, FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Olympiaworld, Innsbruck, Austria
2020 HIGHLIGHTS II; FIVE PLUS ART GALLERY, Vienna, Austria
2012 International Art Fair Toronto, Loch Gallery, Canada
2011 International Art Fair Toronto, Loch Gallery, Canada
2010 Best of Contemporaries, Loch, Gallery, Gallery
2010 Olympics, Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, Canada
2009 Introductory Show, Arcadia Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Best of Contemporaries, Loch Gallery, Canada
2007 International Art Fair Toronto, Loch Gallery, Canada
2006 Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, Canada
2005 International Art Fair Toronto, Loch Gallery
2004 Realism II, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
2003 Caesarea Gallery, Gallery Center, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
2001 International Art Fair Toronto, Peterson Fine Art Gallery, Canada
1998 FORM A(R)T 98 Glinde, Hamburg, Germany
1997 Espace Terre-Paix Sheraton Hotel Bruxelles, Belgium
1996 Espace Mitro, Vernon, France
1996 Grafica, Parliament Palace, Bucharest, Romania
1995 L’Art et la Culture Roumaine, Vicherey, Vosges, France
1991 Crescent, Vienna, Austria
1990 Young Romanian Artists, I.S.E.L.P., Bruxelles, Belgium
1988 National Art Biennial, National Art Museum, Bucharest, Romania
1986 Youth National Fine Art Exhibition, Dalles Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
1984 Pontica, Fine Arts Exhibition, Constanta, Romania

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS
among others: Canada, USA, Great Britain, Romania, Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Turkey, Columbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Australia, India, Mexico

OTHER ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENTS (SELECTED)
2001 concept art, textures and matte paintings, Dungeons and Dragons, interactive movie and other matte paintings for advertisement shorts
2000 paintings for the set of the American movie Serendipity
1998 restoration, mural paintings, University Central Library, Bucharest, Romania.
1997 restoration, mural paintings, Economic Studies Academy, Bucharest, Romania
1993 design and mural paintings, Central Military Museum, Bucharest, Romania.
Other works and design on architectural and public spaces as well as cooperation in projects of monumental art (murals, mosaics, wall decorations, stylistic integration in architecture) and restoration of ancient mural paintings.

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