"ARTKA galéria - Batthyány u. 1. Debrecen 4024"

about me

I was born in Oslo, Norway in 1977. My parents are Hungarian and came to Norway as refugees in 1956. At the moment I living in Debrecen with my wife and my daughter having my own studio space here.

My interest in art began to develop when I was living in Rome as a teenager surrounded by antiquities, architecture and arts. In this period 1990 -1995 my father worked full time as an art historian in Rome. The endless visits to different cultural sights and museums made me more and more curious about easthetics. Not to mention the nature, light and athmospheres made a huge impression on me.

Debrecen (where I stay today) is also a place that influences my work. The urban planning and different modernist and neo-classic buildings is regulary capturing my eyes attention. Although the paintings I make is not an direct attempt to reproduce or imitate the architecture itself. Structures can be found in all organisms, atoms and cells and I believe that the process of making these with an open mind can produce, develop my avareness of what structures and easthetics really is about.

I cannot deny that music has influenced my art either. On my mothers and fathers side there are musicians, composers and music teachers. I was basically surrounded by this world my entire life and was even playing the violin as a child. In the later years I have realized that this also can be «seen» in my art.

Repetition of pattern, structures and a strong focus on composition is only a few examples of pararells that can be drawn between sound and easthetics. I grew up in a working class area in Oslo and had alot of jobs in factories and warehaoses during the past years. Industy and production has an own functional expression that has fascinated me because it belongs to the way we created necassary patterns.

Structures and patterns as mentioned is the main source of inspiration in my paintings. The systems that occur in the progress allows me to study its nature with its innumerous combinations.

I move towards abstraction by gradually avoiding imitation of the figurative and physical laws that meets the eye on everyday basis (avoiding perspective is one example) The progress of completing a picture consists of many stages. For example when I compose a painting I start with sketching up a random, monotone often rigid structure. Each element are then rearranged, reconstructed, simplified or advanced according to its needs. After a certain point in the process, more complex decisions are taken. This is the stage where the picture is born and start living.

The word «Abstract» which comes from the latin word abstractus, means «drawn away». As a reference to this I would like to pinpoint that, perspective, shadow, and an attempt to create a three-dimentional space on a two-dimentional canvas is in this case is more or less «drawn away». Depth and dynamics can still be observed regardless of these laws.

The texture beneath the painting reveals the continuity and progress in my work. The layers or texture that can be seen as ruins that once excisted and is an important element in my work.

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