[1] Dalí also dedicated a 1972 poem to Varia, who awakened the painter's interest in Romanian language and culture.
[2][3] He has also helped set up every major exhibit of Horia Damian's work since the early 1970s.
[4] Among these have been shows at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, the Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou) and Grand Palais in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Documenta IX in Kassel, the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Art Biennial or the Mogoşoaia Palace.
[9][10] In 2011, he was awarded, by the President of Romania, the Order of Cultural Merit[11] and received the Silver Medal of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
[17] By unanimous vote of the city councilors, on September 24, 2020, the critic and art historian Radu Varia became Honorary Citizen of Iași.