Was a Romanian painter and the director of the Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest between 1990 and 2000. He made his debut in 1965 within the Youth Cenacle of the Union of Plastic Artists. Bernea’s paintings were not focused on form but rather on the underlying concept. Simultaneously, they conveyed an effort to engage with the evolving nature of contemporary art. Bernea joins the traditional practice in painting to modern painting, using materiality and texture in order to foster the concept.

In the late 1960s, at the beginning of his artistic career, Horia Bernea became aware of what was called the crisis of representation that the international art scene was feeling. The artist created his own response at the crossroads of pop art and conceptual art.

The Hill is one of a series of paintings that he has developed over time, alongside the concepts of entities and post-cognitive iconography, where the natural landscape is at once image, subject and the starting point for a deeply rooted investigation aimed at fulfilling itself through painting.