Eugen Varzic

Artist stataement

I paint like I'm breathing. To be the same, and in constant change. So I entered the world of painting and I was left alone on that path. I’m not some based artist. Like, say, an artist from Porec, or from Istria. I don't belong anywhere. At least that’s how I feel, and the feeling is perfect. There is no drawer I will be crammed into. Very early on, as a boy, I defined myself as a painter. From the very beginning, I painted on paper, on benches, on walls, and in 1999 I graduated in painting. Today I am living my boyhood dream wrapped up in this crazy time we live in and which I didn’t count on when I dreamed that dream. Formal education is pushed by some as an imperative, as an alibi. Going to study art for me meant leaving the trenches and throwing a rifle to get a brush. It was so long ago, I almost don't remember. I think the job of a painter is the loneliest job. With it, I communicate with the world, and art frees me from loneliness. Some vicious circle. I want to do something that rarely happens in art. Something that leaves the viewer out of his comfort zone when he stands in front of my picture and makes him wonder - is such a thing possible? That’s where I try to survive and create. That idea is what keeps me going, although I have to admit - it’s not easy. Almost every day I ask myself a number of questions, to which the only answer is: creation. This daily ritual gives me a reason to live. A ritual of constant learning, changing, choosing the hardest path, constantly asking questions, with a clear head and faith. Inspiration is music. In silence I could not bear the brush in my hands. Inspiration is the written word. Inspiration is in history, religion, practically everything. Say, my neighbor, who can encourage me to create five new paintings. In empty streets and abandoned cities. Often the night before bed I make sketches in my head for future ideas and pictures. The paintings come on their own, sometimes turning into dreams, and sometimes going to the canvas. The inspiration is in art history. In everything and everyone. Faces are like books. The face fills a lifetime, that relentless tide of life, and before the water recedes, I record everything in color. Figuration as inspiration. Traditional painting as a starting point. I use every material that is possible in painting. All techniques. After a long time I went back to oil as a medium. I don't have a favorite color. My pictures are like colored diaries telling me when I was happy, when I was scared, when I was hypnotized ..., when I was hungry. When I succeed, I will be twice as happy, for those who doubted and those who believed. 

List of exhibitions - solo

2021.The End, City gallery Labin, Croatia

2021. All your paintings are OK. Museum of modern art Dubrovnik, Croatia

2019. Ludus, Pakrac City Museum, Pakrac, , Croatia

2019. Ludus, Gallery 5 towers, Motovun, , Croatia

2019. Ludus, GUGSB, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

2019. Ludus, Gallery of St. Krševana, Šibenik, Croatia

2019. Ludus, Laval Nugent Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2019. Ludus, Museum of the Đakovo Region, Đakovo, Croatia

2018. Summoning, Bruketa Gallery 2, Rijeka, Croatia

2018. Invocation, Lošinj Museum, Fritzi Gallery, Mali Lošinj, Croatia

2017. Summoning, Marktgemeindeamt, St. Michael ob Bleiburg, Austria

2014. Visualizations of Moments, Fonticus Gallery, Grožnjan, Croatia

2014. NOIR, Sebastian Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2014. NOIR, Alvona Gallery, Labin, Croatia

2014. NOIR, Kopjar Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2014. NOIR, Bruketa Gallery 2, Rijeka, Croatia, Croatia

2012. Another World, Zvonimir Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2012. AnotherWorld, Istrian Parliament, Poreč, Croatia

2012. Another World, Sponza Palace, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2010. Weltsmertz, Tourist Information Center, Pula, Croatia

2010. Dreaming of Istria, School Gallery, Barban, Croatia

2009. A. D. 2009, SINCICH Gallery, Višnjan, Croatia

2009. Sketches for Verses, Church of St. Ivana, Vizinada, Croatia

2009. Circus, Zgor murve Gallery, Funtana, Croatia

2007. Enfer et Paradis, Vladimir Becić Art Salon, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

2006. Paintings from Ablon, CEKAO Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2002. Memento mundi, LUKA Gallery, Pula , Croatia

2002. Trash Art, Small Gallery, Poreč, Croatia

2001. Street Art, Art Studio Varzić, Poreč, Croatia

2000. Chaos, Tourist Information Center, Pula, Croatia

2000. Chaos, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia

1999. Chaos, Olive Gallery, Pula, Croatia

1999. Chaos, Crypt of the Church of St. Martina, Vrsar, Croatia

1999. Kaos, Atelier Vinkovačkih jeseni, Vinkovci, Croatia

1999. Process, Matica hrvatska Gallery, Slavonski Brod 

1998. Process, LG Gallery, Pazin, Croatia

1998. Process, Crypt of the Church of St. Martina, Vrsar, Croatia

1997. Process, Kurhaus, Frankfurt (Bad Homburg) , Germany

1997. Student, Messing Ars Gallery, Samobor, Croatia 

1997. Student, Zgor murve Gallery, Funtana, Croatia

1997. Muka, barracks Borongaj (with Generalić), Zagreb, Croatia

1994. Month of Life, Coffe Gallery Zagreb, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

Group (selection)

2018.

18th Triennial of Painting - Blue Salon, National Museum Zadar, Zadar, Croatia

Algo que mas realismo, Sala artistica Aragonesa, Zaragoza, Spain

Leave a trail, Zvonimir Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

Private and public, XVI International Exhibition, Tromeđa, Bosnia and Hercegovina

Svjetlost, Fonticus Gallery, Grožnjan, Croatia

Art Zagreb, Technical Museum, Zagreb, Croatia

Svjetlost, Charlama, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

2017

4th Biennial of Painting, Varaždin City Museum, Varaždin, Croatia

4th Biennial of Painting, Dom HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia

4th Self-Portrait Triennial, Prica Gallery, Samobor, Croatia

Home without borders, The Workshop of Dubai / Ayala, Dubai, UAE 

2015.

1st USEUM exhibition, Le dame gallery, London, United Kingdom

2014

Crisis line or crisis line, Fonticus Gallery, Grožnjan, Croatia

Diversity, Fonticus Gallery, Grožnjan, Croatia

Diversity, Temple Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina 

BPC, Milotić Gallery, Pula, Croatia

2013

White Blue Red, Chagall Gallery, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Brod Art Circle, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

2012

Exhibition of the art colony Paradiso, Makek Gallery, Rab, Croatia

Exhibition of the Matica hrvatska art colony, Rector's Palace, Ston, Croatia

PeopleMetr, Gallery 9, Prague, Czech Republic

White Blue Red, Max Gallery, Small Synagogue, Trnava, Slovakia 

Made in Croatia, Makek Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

PeopleMetr, Sztuki Gallery, Chezstosowie, Poland

Saint Blaise in Contemporary Art, Sebastijan Gallery, Dubrovnik, Croatia

2011

Permanent exhibition - picture Eva, Phantastehmuseum, Vienna, Austria 

PEOPLEMETR

Galerie Zbraslav (Praha-Zbraslav), Prague, Czech Republic

Galerie 9 (Praha-Vysočany), Prague, Czech Republic

Západoslovenské múzeum, Trnava, Slovakia

Žitnoostrovské múzeum, Dunajská Streda, Czech Republic

Sort by Soproni Egyetem művészeti tanszékén, Sopron, Hungary 

Szlovák Intézet, Budapest, Hungary

Miejska Galeria Sztuki w Częstochowi, Poland

2010

Exhibition of the art colony Ston, Rector's Palace, Ston, Croatia

5th Triennial of Watercolors, Karas Gallery, Karlovac, Croatia

5th Triennial of Watercolors, Becić Art Salon, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

5th Triennial of Watercolors, Zvonimir Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

2009.

Il gusto nel colore, Teatro Signorelli, Cortona, Italy

The first self-portrait triennial, Samobor, Croatia

SAVA Watercolor Colony, Becić Art Salon, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

HDLU Annual Exhibition, Pula, Croatia

2008

Slovenia open to art, City Museum of Idrija, Idrija, Slovenia

Slovenia open to art, Museums of Radovljica Municipality, Radovljica, Slovenia

Velebit Art Colony, Lika Museum, Gospić, Croatia

Annual revival exhibition of HDLU, Pula, Croatia

2007

Print to Art, Luka Gallery, Pula, Croatia

Slovenia open to art, Gallery of Kosovel Home, Sežana, Slovenia 

2006.

NEW ISTRIAN ART, Oprtalj, Croatia

Revue exhibition of HDLU Istria, Pula, Croatia

Print to art, LUKA Gallery, Pula, Croatia

Road to the unknown, Piran, Slovenia

Donna art, Galeria municipale, Bergamo, Italy

2005

NEW ISTRIAN ART, Kaštel Gallery, Motovun, Croatia

Charity exhibition for the Snoopy Association, CVAJNER Gallery, Pula, Croatia

Road to the Unknown, LUKA Gallery, Pula, Croatia

Moggio Udinese: Artist's book, Udine, Italy

2004

Split Salon, Split, Croatia

Humanitarian auction FOR SAFE STEP, hotel DIAMANT, Poreč, Croatia

Annual revue exhibition of members of HDLU Istria, MMC LUKA, Pula, Croatia

2001.

Young authors of Poreč, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia

Authors of the painting plein air Snina, Galeria Miro, Snina, Slovakia

Authors of the painting plein air Snina, National Museum, Mihalovice, Slovakia 

2000.

Group of authors, Pastoreria, Ferrara (Ro), Italy

Group of authors, City Hall, Oprtalj, Croatia

Young authors of Poreč, Zuccato Gallery, Poreč, Croatia

HDLU show exhibition, Pula, Croatia

2nd Krapina Salon, Krapina, Croatia 

Nemes Gallery, Pula, Croatia

Ex tempore, Barcolana, Trieste, Italy

Brod painters, Matica hrvatska Gallery, Slavonski Brod, Croatia

Coastal galleries, Piran, Slovenia, Croatia

18th Riviera Art Colony, Small Gallery, Poreč, Croatia

1999

Coastal galleries, Piran, Slovenia

Bembo Castle, Bale, Croatia

1997

Crystal Cube of Serenity Gallery, Sisak, Croatia

Hotel Belvedere, Vrsar, Croatia

Mogliano Veneto, Hotel Venice, Italy

Vincent Gallery from Kastav, Pula, Croatia

1996

City cafe, Sisak, Croatia

Installation PAPER, Korzo space, Rijeka, Croatia

Krsto Hegedušić Gallery, Petrinja, Croatia

1995

Juraj Šporer Gallery, Opatija, Croatia

Imperial Hotel Gallery, Opatija, Croatia

Church of St. Barbara, Knin, Croatia

Hotel Coning, Trakoscan, Croatia

Austrian Cultural Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

Faculty of Education, Maribor, Slovenia

Final exhibition of students, Small Salon, Rijeka, Croatia

1994.

Pinakothek of the Franciscan Monastery, Split, Croatia

Lika Museum, Gospić, Croatia

Croatian Cultural Center, Rijeka, Croatia

HDLU House, Zagreb, Croatia

Old Town Hall, Zagreb, Croatia

Museum of Slavonia, Osijek, Croatia

Sponza Palace, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Home of Croatian Veterans, Pula, Croatia

Rovinj City Museum, Rovinj, Croatia

Memorial house, Pazin, Croatia

Sisak City Museum, Sisak, Croatia

Gallery of the Franciscan Monastery, Široki Brijeg, Bosnia and Hercegovina

Rondo Art Gallery, Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina

1992

Art club HKD 1993, Rijeka, Croatia

Messing Ars Gallery, Samobor, Croatia

Samobor Museum, Samobor, Croatia

Gallery of the National University, Samobor Gallery, Croatia

Zvonimir, Zagreb, Croatia