Victor ManBorn in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in 1974.He lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Cluj-Napoca.Only gradually does the eye find its bearings as the contours of the images emerge from the black, gray, and green tones of Victor Man’s intimate, small-format paintings. This gradual process of recognition transforms these images into a threshold, a place of transition into another, inner reality. The space that opens up under the cover of darkness within Man’s works leads viewers into a mysterious world that merges the mundane and the fantastical, mythology and fetish, individual experience and art-historical references, male and female, man and beast. This magical cosmos includes portraits and still lifes as well as beautiful, occult-like, and even erotic subjects. The paintings, attracting and drawing the viewer into their worlds, however, never provide explanations. Instead in their play of suggestions and references, the possibility is ever present to reverse their meaning in the eye of the viewer. In that sense a seemingly harmless still life depicting a bunch of slender, moderate branches in a vase, as in his Virgács (St. Nicolas) (2011), transforms into an object of fear after decoding the reference in the title to Saint Nicholas and his counterpart Krampus, who punishes those who have been bad. When Man draws from literary sources and art he usually favors sources that deal with the thresholds of human existence. The human body—transformed, constrained, tortured, amputated—is often at the center of his timeless and mysterious paintings. A recurring motif is that of decapitation: a seated figure, cut off at the neck by the painting’s format, holds a disembodied head in its lap. Whether the figure is female or male remains unclear. This motif evokes images of Judith and Holofernes or Salome and John the Baptist. The gender ambiguity of the main figure reveals Man’s interest in the Surrealists and their experiments with gender-bending imagery. Some of Man’s

Victor Joseph DeManet (1895-1964) je belgijski kipar, ki je živel v Bruseljih, Belgiji. Rojstvo ga je ob februarju 3., 1895, zaznamenalo v prestolnici Belgije, kjer je umrl februarja 7., 1964.

Njegova umetnost je bila predstavljena na umetniških tekmah Olimpijskih igrač leta 1924, Olimpijskih igrač leta 1932 in Olimpijskih igrač leta 1936. Čeprav ni bilo veliko podatkov o njegovem življenju, njegov opus ostaja fascinanten zaradi kompleksnih simboličnih sporočil.

DeManet je znan po svojih minimalističnih kiparjih, ki so pogosto izdelani iz marmora in okraščenih z zlatom. Čeprav njegova dela niso vedno razumljena kot umetniška mojstrovstva, jih je kritiki ocenjevali kot izraz umetnosti zgodnje moderne skupine.

Njegova najpomembnejša dela so "Luminary Petals on a Wet, Black Bough" (Nepotričeni lepoti svetlobe na mokrem črnem vejju), kjer je prikazana figura obdajana z elegantnimi zelenimi elementi. Človeška glava, postavljena v položaj brez glavnega telesa, simbolizira smrt in prazno mesto življenja. Ta motiv izvira iz evropske umetnosti zgodnje moderne skupine.

Čeprav DeManet ni znan kot velik umetnik, njegovo delo je še vedno predmet raziskovanja in analize. Življenje kipa ima zelo pomembno mesto v umetniški zgodovine Belgije.