About Victor Fota

Victor Fota is a visual artist born in 1989, from Bucharest, Romania. He's been studying arts formally since 4th grade. He is a graduate of the University of Fine Arts in Bucharest. Has a Bachelor's degree (2012) and a Masters's degree (2014) in Art History, specialising in Conservation and Restoration of fine art and cultural heritage works of art. After his University years, Victor focused mainly on oil painting, generating most of his ideas on the canvas with the help of digital tools for conceiving the designs. For his paintings, he uses a clean technique that resembles the old Flemish and Venetian methods of rigid forms and successive glazes of paint. With this technique, he creates allegorical surreal images, almost digital like, that impress with the use of photorealism and rich details.

Recently, he began the journey of Digital Art, recreating some of his best analogue works into digital-enhanced versions of the original oil paintings. The digital augmentation of the paintings is executed using digital software to improve or animate the still image.

Victor Fota’s works describe his inner reality through an eclectic approach to aesthetics. Through a mix of a surrealistic style, combining introspection, reason and a pinch of the subconscious, his works are a handful of maximalism. His images focus on the contemporary man and his inner struggles, his relationship with the technology around him and the effects within. His oil paintings are augmented through digital means, either pure raster editing or animation, to enhance their message and final aesthetics.

His approach is one of generating a different perspective. A visual narration of the artist’s inner feelings and thoughts about human nature and his connections with the environment. From an aesthetic point of view, his aim is to make the viewer wonder about the details and the clean execution of forms through oil paints.

Victor Fota has exhibited all over the world in galleries like Jonathan LeVine - NY, Corey Helford - LA, Ryan Joseph - Denver, Hauch - Prague and Galateca - Bucharest. Some of his paintings were featured in international magazines such as WIRED, Vice, Hi-Fructose and Juxtapoz.

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