Victor Bregeda

Victor Bregeda
Виктор Брегеда
Born Victor Viktorovich Bregeda
(1963-07-01) July 1, 1963
Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR (now Russia)
Nationality Russian
Known for Painting, Drawing

Victor Viktorovich Bregeda is a Russian visual artist recognized for his meta-realistic style of painting.

Career

After attending art school in Russia, Bregeda developed his personal interpretation of creative art, that put himself in sharp contrast with his academic art training, but gained recognition in local and international contests. In early 2000, Bregada was invited to promote his work in the U.S. After a successful first art show in Hawaii, his art has been gaining steady prominence in the international art scene.

Bregeda has been particularly recognized for his contribution to contemporary Christian art, resulting in the ongoing solo exhibition at the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, TX. His best-selling artwork, The Eucharist, became first in the series of paintings representing Christian symbolism. Other pieces include images of the Last Supper, Jesus and the idea of divine love.

Recent museum exhibitions

During April 2014 – present, the Museum of Biblical Art (Dallas), the MBA, has featured a private collection of Victor Bregeda paintings from the early and recent periods. The MBA has a simple mission: to display art with a Biblical theme. Nothing of its size exists in the United States, making it a treasure trove for art enthusiasts. Featured exhibits have included: the Marc Chagall Exhibit, the artworks of John Singer Sargent, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, named Texas Tourism’s Attraction of the Year.

In November–December 2014, Victor Bregeda presented his most recent collection of paintings at the Museum of Russian Art in NJ. Since its founding in 1980, the Museum of Russian Art (MORA) has been paramount to the introduction of Russian art to American audiences. With its core collection largely culled from human rights activist Alexander Glezer’s private holdings, the museum’s collection during its formative years was on a par only with that of Norton Dodge for that time. Throughout the 1980s and early 90s, notable artists first exhibited outside Russia at MoRA including Skate’s 5000 notables, Erik Bulatov, Alexander Kharitonov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Evgeny Kropivnitsky, Lidia Masterkova, Vladimir Nemukhin, Ernst Neizvestny—the canon of late Soviet painting today.

Artistic Style

Victor Bregeda at the opening of his personal exhibition in Taganrog, 2007

Bregeda has been often compared to Salvador Dalí and other masters of the Surrealistic Genre. He positions his work in the meta-realism style with some elements of surrealism. In comparison to meta-realism, surrealism was a much broader cultural movement widely popular in the early and mid 20th century. Meta-realism can be viewed as a later Russian offshoot of surrealism with respect to the imaginative visual style. The key difference is that meta-realism primarily appeals to the superconscious - in Victor’s case strong God’s influence - while surrealism was heavily influenced by subconscious expression.

Meta-realism is a direction in Russian art and poetry that was born in the 1970s to the 1980s. Mikhail Epshtein, who coined it in 1981 and made it public, first used the term. "Meta" means both "through" and "beyond" the reality that we all can see; hence, "meta-realism" is the realism of the hyperphysical nature of things. The main expression of its essence is given through a non-visual metaphor or, according to another Epshtein's term, a "metabola" (rather than hyperbole), that means "transfer" or "transition," opening many dimensions. "Metabola" is different from the symbol or a "visual" metaphor, because it assumes the interosculation of realities.

Themes

Personal life

Bregeda was born into a family of painters in 1963 in Taganrog, Russia. He is married to his wife, Olga, and currently lives in Russia, while frequently traveling to the United States to promote his art. Bregeda often spends extended time in Hawaii.

Award-winning artworks

References

  1. ↑ НАУКА И ЖИЗНЬ "ЗАГАДОЧНЫЕ КАРТИНЫ". ИТОГИ КОНКУРСА
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