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Ákos Esse Bánki

PAF — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:03:40 +0000

The career of the painter Ákos Esse Bánki is imbued with the spirit of experimentation. His works are mostly fine color dressed cityscape creations. It is governed by space, line, construction. He composes with engineering precision. Following his brushwork, fallen, lovable works are deburring. His curiosity wanders in the triangle of the human soul, material and painting tools.His latest works are influenced by a narrative that radiates geometric shapes.

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Attila Rajcsók

PAF — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 07:25:01 +0000

Attila Rajcsók – the sculptor – was born in 1983, graduated in 2008 from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. His masters were Pál Kő, Zoltán Karmó and Péter Gálhidy. During his career so far, Rajcsók has experimented with several materials and machining techniques. His works, which balance on the border of abstraction and figurativeness, whether of wood or metal, are always concerned with the question of the boundaries, independence and balance of form. His works made of steel are mostly reminiscent of natural forms. Despite the brittleness of the material, the layering of steel hinges lends a unique dynamic to each structure. The snail houses, the plants that form the formal basis of the works, are not simply depicted by Rajcsók, but at the same time they are reinterpreted. The sculptures close into themselves as a result of the layering of the steel and as a result of which the works hide their secrets in an intimate interior. As if the sculpture itself, a sheath, is a closed shell that obscures, makes inaccessible the whole reality of the work.

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György Szabó

PAF — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 02:00:16 +0000

György Szabó was born in 1947. He graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts as a student of József Somogyi. György Szabó’s sculptures deliver a singularly unique form of abstraction. Upon first look, his constructions lack figurativeness and bulk. These bronze pieces seem like haphazard, alien structures. Still, Szabó’s sculptures draw us into their own space where their structure ceases to be foreign, and each detail, each limb is imbued with deliberate philosophy. Willingly submerged in the intricately detailed, refined surfaces and improbable shapes, we cannot find a human figure and yet we do not feel amiss of humanity. Because of the material, the lost-wax sculptures of György Szabó are at once introverted, limited, mobile, and malleable. They delineate freedom, and achieve figurativeness in construction.

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Imre Barna Balázs

PAF — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 01:00:39 +0000

Imre Barna Balázs was born in 1976 and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2001. His masters were Zsigmond Károlyi, Ferenc Kis-Tóth, and Gábor Nagy.
Imre Barna Balázs’s painting is exemplified by an organic network of gestures. Each canvas crafts its own milieu in which colors, shading, light, and layers are at once in perfect harmony and constant tension with one another. These worlds are open, constantly in motion, and multilayered – not only structurally, but also impact-wise. At first, the incredible intensity of Imre Barna Balázs’s images just about overwhelms the viewer. Only after this strong emotional experience does one realize that fortuity does not play much of a role in these works: each shade of color, the entire stunning complexity of the picture space, is designed and completed with painstaking attention to detail. Behind the vibrant, seemingly random cavalcade of color, one senses allusions to a higher realm. Imre Barna Balázs’s paintings point toward a sort of unpolluted wholeness, within reach only if we let the pictures guide us.

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István Csík

PAF — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:54:58 +0000

István Csík was born in 1930, graduated from the Hungarian College of Fine Arts in 1954. His masters were János Kmetty, Gyula Pap and Gyula Hincz. The work of István Csík evokes traditional abstract painting – developed at the beginning of the twentieth century. The interaction of carefully painted shapes creates the structure of the images, the viewer can feel the order on the canvas before he understands the space. Csík often relies on landscapes and natural elements, which he then abstracts with the tools of non-figurative painting. The unity of nature is broken by the forms painted on it, which thus become the imprint of human intervention. However, István Csík’s paintings do not shed light on the incompatibility of the two, but create a new unity between the natural and the artificial.

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Iván Paulikovics

PAF — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 03:00:35 +0000

Iván Paulikovics was born in 1953 and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1977 as a student of József Somogyi. The works of sculptor Iván Paulikovics are figurative and realistic in perspective. His small sculptures are characterized by intricate detail. The figures have dynamism and character – they generate their own space. Their proportions and postures make them seem so real that it feels as if they could move out of their frozen stance inside the sculpture at any moment. The dynamism of the composition often results from the daring combination of materials. Each sculpture has a deep philosophical core that brings together the interior and exterior.

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József Zalakovács

admin — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:21:28 +0000

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József Zalakovács was born in 1954 and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1981. His master was Pál Gerzson.
József Zalakovács’s style is multifaceted and experimental. His oeuvre has space for both abstraction and figurativeness, and he is determined and expressive in both genres. In any picture, Zalakovács’s precise, firm technical base shines through. He works with an easily identifiable network of motifs, which lends continuity to his works. He is fond of using geometric shapes: beyond providing the image with structure, they also bear intellectual content.

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László Gyémánt

admin — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 05:28:28 +0000

László Gyémánt was born in 1935 and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1963. His masters were Gyula Pap and Gyula Hincz. To this day, he remains one of the most important figures in contemporary Hungarian painting. Before the system change in 1989, his works were characterized by a critical, rebellious attitude. He is the most significant Hungarian representative of such great twentieth-century genres as pop art and hyperrealism. As reasonable as the desire may be, trying to put such labels on László Gyémánt’s art would be impossible without losing sight of the added value that makes him a great artist. What may seem like a faithful, photographic representation of reality shrouds content whose manner of speech differs greatly from that of the real world. Although the landscapes, cities, and faces in his paintings seem to come across as familiar, even easy to familiarize, such gaze only scratches the surface. The real immersion into Gyémánt’s style lies not in discovering the similarities between the paintings and the world, but in recognizing the differences. Colors, lights, tones demonstrate that each landscape, each portrait has something to say beyond their display. These gestures make Gyémánt’s art almost literary. Although these paintings feel embarrassingly real, they are copies of a reality that has no original. They will not lead us back to the real landscapes and real faces because they only exist in the particular moment and tone that appears on the canvas.

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PAF

PAF — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:00:56 +0000

PAF was born in 1980, and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2004 as a student of Károly Klimó. The interaction of shapes, colors, and materials plays a particularly important role in PAF’s painting. He creates harmony between contrary factures, and along the substance-encounters they engender pictorial dimensions whose mutual tension and dialogue make up the picture itself. The artist is characterized by a daring, almost aggressive use of color, which further deepens the paintings that are already teeming with an abundance of substances. The central element in his most recent works is a figure that seems to struggle for existence within the force field of substances and colors. PAF’s paintings guide us into the inner world of the artist; each image shares a story or secret. This leads the viewers to their own struggles, sorrow, love, and happiness – i.e. themselves. Looking at PAF’s pictures, we are inevitably compelled to search our souls and engage in those struggles fought by the materials, colors, and shapes in front of us.

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Róbert Csáki

PAF — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:00:11 +0000

Róbert Csáki was born in 1964 and graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1990. His master was Gábor Dienes. Róbert Csáki’s paintings open up vistas that are impossible to imagine or describe. Unlikely figures and sometimes sorrowful colors lure us into a completely different world. With dazzling color and light, Csáki’s pictures take us unimaginably far from where we stand looking at the canvas. As we venture inside the frame, everything becomes more blurry and mysterious, as if we had discovered layer upon layer of this vision-filled world. Csáki’s precise painting style evokes the visual world of such masters as Watteau and Goya. It is not reality that the paintings reflect. Rather, it is the state in-between dreaming and waking, when every object, shape, and landscape is colored by our sensations – when nothing is clearly delineated, and everything is ephemeral. Csáki’s refined, virtuoso technique makes visible and real the fragments of dreams, memories, and visions we may never reach without his paintings.

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