Vasile Hutopilă

Painter (b. 1953)

Vasile Hutopila (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Готопи́ло; born March 17, 1953, in Izvoarele Sucevei (Ізвори), Suceava County, Bukovina, Romania) is a contemporary Romanian painter of Ukrainian ethnicity. His works belong to impressionism.

Awards

1983 - 3rd place at Cântarea României festival - the county final
May 20, 1985 - 1st place at the Participation, development, peace art festival in Brașov, awarded by the Committee of Socialist Education and Culture of Brașov 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 Brașov 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 Constanța
1988 - participation diploma at the Graphic Virtues of the Romanian Landscape national painting exhibition in Constanța
1989 - participation diploma at the Artur Verona national festival, Dorohoi, Botoșani County
In May 1997, at the 4th edition of The Bukovinian International Salon of Photography it was awarded the Vasile Hutopilă 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
May 9, 2010 - 1st place at Il raduno mongolfiere in Calabria - Estemporanea di pittura, Santo Stefano di Rogliano (CS)

Exhibitions

Some of Vasile Hutopila'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.

individual exhibitions
Câmpulung Moldovenesc (1975, 1979, 1981, 1995, 2003), of which, the most important in July 2003, as part of Întâlniri bucovinene / Bukowińskie Spotkania / Буковинські зустрічі festival, at the Wooden Art Museum in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, varnished by prof. dr. Ion Filipciuc, haiku poet
Brașov (1983, 1984)
Bucharest (1985)
Negrești, Vaslui County (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994)
Iași (1989)
group exhibitions
May 1983, Brașov
March 1984, Brașov
December 1986, Anuala '86, Vaslui
November 28–29, 1987, Virtuți plastice ale peisajului românesc, Constanța; vernissage by prof. Ion Sălișteanu, painter
December 1987, Anuala '87, Vaslui, at the Arta hall of the Ștefan cel Mare County Museum; vernissage by prof. Ion Sălișteanu, painter
June 6–12, 1988, Săptămâna culturii și educației socialiste, Negrești
1988, Virtuți plastice ale peisajului românesc, Constanța
December 1988, Anuala '88, Vaslui
March 21–30, 1989, Decada artelor, Vaslui, vernissage by art critic Valentin Ciucă
June 5–11, 1989, Săptămâna culturii și educației socialiste, Negrești
December 1989, Anuala '89, Vaslui, vernissage by art critic Valentin Ciucă
December 1990, Anuala '90, Vaslui
December 1992, Anuala '92, Vaslui
December 1993, Anuala '93, Vaslui
November 21–27, 1994, Săptămâna culturală a orașului Negrești, Negrești; vernissage by Doina Rotaru
December 1994, Anuala '94, Vaslui
October 1–4, 1993, Negrești
November 29 - December 30, 1997, Salonul de toamnă târzie, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, vernissage by prof. dr. Ion Filipciuc, haiku poet
May 5–7, 2002, Sărbătoarea Sfintelor Paști în Bucovina, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
December, 2002, BTT, Câmpulung Moldovenesc
May 7–9, 2010, Il raduno mongolfiere in Calabria - mostra di pittura, in the historical centre of Santo Stefano di Rogliano (CS)

What art critics say

Vasile Hutopila'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 Hutopila 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, Iași 21 July 1989, after one of the rare watercolour exhibitions of Hutopilă, 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, Pățania lui Pișpirică, Brașov, 2003
Alexandru Bogza, Antinomii tonale, Biblioteca Miorița, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, 2006
Decebal Alexandru Seul, Muntele din beznă, Bacău, 2008

Mass Media

You can see below some of the newspapers, magazines, TV channels and radio stations to which Vasile Hutopilă gave interviews, from the early '80s till present