Felix Deac

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„Exceeding materiality and material conditions, I started to play shaping the forms respecting the logic of the living, intending to give each of my work its own life. Details and textures are taken from the living and real world in order to create a non anthropomorphical compositional whole. My intention is to provide aesthetic qualities to objects and shapes which would offer the public an unexplained existence due to the illusion of living that I create. By the works that I have in mind to exhibit to the audience I am trying to flame visceral reactions, and to put into the game a purely sympathetic and powerful relationship between the viewer and the creation.” – Felix Deac, statement

1984 – born in Satu Mare, RO
lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, RO

EDUCATION
2009 – 2014  Ph.D. studies, ’’Ion Andreescu’’ University of Arts and Design from Cluj Napoca, RO, Sculpture department
2007 – 2009  Master studies in various tehnics, ’’Ion Andreescu’’ University of Arts and Design from Cluj Napoca, RO, Sculpture department
2006 – With Erasmus program, studying 5 months at University of Fine Arts in Bilbao (Spain)
2003 – 2007 ’’Ion Andreescu’’ University of Arts and Design from Cluj Napoca, RO, Sculpture department, investigation in sculpture and drawing tehnics
1999 – 2003  ’’Aurel Pop’’ Art Highschool Satu Mare

SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 – Felix Deac – solo show Tribute to prostrated nature, Nasui Collection & Gallery
2014 – ”Artificial Life” The parallel program of Manifesta 10, Organisers Gallery 21 & Nasui Collection & Gallery, St. Petersburg, RU
2013 – ”Essence of presence” Solo show 3)5 Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Rieti, IT
2012 – ’’Cluj meet Berlin’’, collective exhibition Bazis Gallery Berlin, Berlin, DE
2012 – “Colouring the Grey – State of Body”, curator Cosmin Năsui, Liverpool Biennial Independents 2012, UK (catalogue)
2012 – „Synthetic Life”, solo show, curator Cosmin Năsui, Aiurart, Bucharest, RO
2012 – ”Artificial Life”, solo show, Gallery of Visualkontakt, Ulm, DE
2011 – ”Artificial Life” solo show, Gallery of  Visualkontakt, Oradea, RO
2011 – Youg Art Show *YAS* group exhibition in House of Art, Piestany, SK
2010 – ’’Life’’, solo show, Laika Gallery, Cluj Napoca, RO
2010 – Collective exhibition with R.I.V.E.R. project artists at The Ark – Bucharest, RO
2010 – Workshop R.I.V.E.R. – Ancona – Rosora, IT
2010 – Workshop in Louvre, Paris, FR 2009 – ”Made of…’’ – solo show , Cluj Napoca, RO
2009 – National Biennale ‘‘Bronze Age’’/“Vîrsta de Bronz”, Cluj-Napoca Art Museum, Group exhibition, RO
2006 – Cluj Napoca ’’Bronze Age’’ Group exhibition, RO
2004, 2005 – ”Fontana Group” Satu Mare Collective yearly exhibition of  local artists, RO
2003 – ”InterArt”, Group exhibition, Satu Mare, RO

PUBLICATIONS
Snapshot Romania, Contemporary Artists from Romania, Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection, 2013
The Soft Power of the Art Market, Vellant Publishing House, 2011