TAT Contemporary Art Gallery
Anita KÁNTOR
She was born in 1985, graduated from Medgyessy Ferenc High School and Secondary Art School in Debrecen in 2005 and she obtained her bachelor’s degree at the Department of Visual Arts at the Eszterházy Károly College in Eger in 2012. Since the same year, she has been continuing her master’s studies at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. her masters are Attila Kővári, István Erőss, Tamás Kopasz. In 2011, she had a one-man show at Hallgatói Gallery in Eger, in 2012 at Gallery IX in Budapest and in 2013 – along with Gergő Tornyi – at Gallery Katamsi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where she could spend half a year on a special grant provided by the university. In 2004, she won the 5th prize at the Országos Középiskolai Tanulmányi Verseny (National Educational Competition for Secondary School Students) in the category of drawing, in 2012 she was awarded with 1st prize at the Művészeti Diákköri Konferencia (Conference for University Students of Art) in Eger and in 2013, she finished in 2nd place at the Országos Művészeti Diákköri Konferencia (National Conference for University Students of Art). What’s more, her works appeared at numerous group shows throughout the capital city, at such places as Magyar Művelődési Intézet (Hungarian Cultural Institute), Friss Gallery or Karinthy Saloon, just as well as in Eger at Művészetek Háza (House of Arts), Művelődési Központ (Cultural Center), Hotel Flóra and Templom Gallery and also at Castle Lazar in Lăzarea, Romania.
miscellaneous exhibition, there’s one piece of particularly great significance on display, on which she had been working for more than a year: this two-meter-wide canvas, she had painted on, scratched in, took layers off several times, she applied paint, chalk and even caster sugar.
Anita Kántor’s invention, we might say her trade mark, that she usually uses preprinted linen as her canvas. She re-uses and reinterprets the given patterns, lines and shapes and adding new figures, she creates entirely new contexts, situations. It is also characteristic of her „conventional” paintings though that she operates with unique spaces, dimensions or she even divests her figures of their original context, alienating them or making their movements purposeless. At our
