" Plastic Arts at the Art Academy of Iasi, Romania (1977)
" History of Arts at the Art Academy "Nicolae Grigorescu" of Bucharest (1982)
" Mentor professors: Dan Hatmanu, Dimitrie Gavrilean and Victor Mihailescu-Craiu
" Sstarting with 1977 he activates as a drawing and art history teacher in Tg.Ocna, Bacau, Romania
The painter Mihai Nechita-Burculet was born, at 5 February 1949 in Sarca village, in the area of Iasi form the north-east of Romania, in an orthodox family. He is married to Georgeta Nechita who has studied music at the University of...., and together they have two children. The Nechita-Burculet family is living at present in Targu Ocna town, Bacau.
A short definition of Mihai Nechita's art - one harmonic combination of surrealism, humour and deep feelings.
" The Universal painting - the basis of composition and colours from the XVII-XVIII century: Spanish School (Velasquez, Zurbaran), the Flamand School (Rembrandt), the Holland School (Vermeer)
" The XX century, subconscious research - Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Victor Brauner, Tristan Tzara
" Romanian painting influences seen in the specific elements of Corneliu Baba, Victor Mihailescu-Craiu, Dan Hatmanu
" The Orthodox influence: there is a visible connection between Mihai Nechita and the Orthodox religion. The painter is also making religious paintings inspired from the Byzantine art.
The painter Mihai Nechita-Burculet has shown since childhood a high interest for landscapes and the surroundings of his natal village, whose colours and shapes can be noticed even in his later paintings. The most important period of time from the artistic development point of view were the years spent next to the painter Victor Mihailescu-Craiu, one of the greatest Romanian peisagists. Craiu represented the first and the most important mentor professor next to whom Mihai Nechita discovered the secrets of colours and composition and the deep love for painting.
The technique he uses is the one of classic oil on canvas. The compositional harmony and colour's harmony follow the rules of the classic composition. His paintings are very detailed both in concept and technical part. He makes the frames himself, those being part of the painting. There have also been times when he used to prepare the colours and other special products following the old customs.
The work of Mihai Nechita-Burculet is based on the Byzantine and Romanian traditional elements and tends to universality. Most of his paintings are surrealists created in a realist technique. His painting shows his own image of the surrounding world. Many of his paintings show connections with his natal village through landscapes, colours, houses, but also through the objects he used in different compositions. A preferred theme is the one of human attitude but also the fake treated with light irony, shortly the theatre of our world. The portraits present imaginary people and some very close characters of his life: his mother, his wife, the daughter, the son and strange self portraits like the "Self portrait at 80 years".
An important face of the work of Mihai Nechita is connected to the Orthodox believe. He does not make only icons, but he also restoration work of cult objects and church paintings, for technique and for history of art reasons.
Besides painting, among the painter's interests are also urban design and peisagistic projects of restoration of historic and art monuments. He realised and ran the construction and execution of the following projects:
- The Monument of the politic prisoners from Tg.Ocna, near the old jail;
- The Monument of the entrance in the same town;
- The Concept and the realisation of interior design of "Costache Negri" High school of Tg.Ocna.
- The Concept and the realisation of the exterior walls of the "Neon Wiesbauer" in Regensburg, Germany.
Personal Exhibitions:
" 2004 Sittard (Holland);
" 2002 Onesti, (Romania);
" 2001 Bucharest, (Romania);
" 1996 Regensburg (Germany);
" 1991 Rixheim (France);
" 1989 Ploiesti, (Romania);
" 1988 Cluj, (Romania);
" 1987 Bacau, (Romania);
" 1979, 1983, 1995, 1999 Onesti, (Romania);
" 1975, 1977 Iasi, (Romania);
Group Exhibitions:
" 1976-2001 in Iasi, Bacau, Chisinau, Galati, Suceava, Bucharest
The painter's works are in private collections in France, Germany, Holland, Canada, Israel, England and Romania.
