TAT Contemporary Art Gallery
His non-fig paintings are vibrating with the most beautiful shades of colors. He has an outstanding sense of putting his vivid lines and forms beside each other, his works are full of movement, dynamic and ravishing. With the glinting color contrasts, prevailing color accords and entwining, blending, pulsating shapes, his pictures are massive but at the same time, harmonious. Most recently, he has been greatly inspired by the fantastic natural fenomena of Iceland, which has clearly manifested in his latest paintings, in the so called Iceland Series.
He was born in Sighetu Marmației, Romania. He spent almost his entire childhood there, then he moved to Budapest, Hungary with his family. He started primary school here which he continued in Mezőberény, where he also began his graphics studies under graphics artist Zoltán Papp. In 2009, he graduated from the Department of Applied Graphics – Visual Graphics at the local secondary art school and the same year, he gained admission to the Faculty of Arts at the University of Szeged where he finished his bachelor’s studies as a painter in 2013. His masters were Tamás Szabó, Gábor Roskó and Lehel Gál. Both in 2009 and in 2012 at the Művészeti Diákköri Konferencia (Conference for University Students of Art), he won the 3rd prize, at the latter, in all the three categories of painting, photography and porcelain enamel and this was the year when he was also awarded with 2nd prize at the tender of the Hungarian Academy of Science. In 2010, he appeared amongst the artists of the Csongrádi Művésztelep (Art Colony of Csongrád), in 2011-12-13 he exhibited both at solo- and group exhibitions throughout Szeged, in 2011, he participated in III. Kis Képek Nemzetközi Kiállítás (IIIrd Small Pictures International Exhibition) in Serbia and the same year also in the Contemporary Art Exhibition in Rome. In 2014, he received 1st prize at the art section of the tender of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in the same year in Eger and in 2015 in Budapest, at Tat Gallery, he exhibited his works at solo exhibitions.
Ioan Andrei HEGEDUS
