ARTIST PROFILE

Péter Szabó

  • Romania (b. 1978 in Targu-mures)
  • Currently in Budapest, Hungary.
  • Analytical interest and critical reflection on everyday reality, documentary character, larger historical view, recycling working method.
Peoples Performativity - 2012 January

Peoples Performativity - 2012 January

  • 2014
  • Pencil, Colored Pencil, Graphite Pencil
  • 270 x 250 cm

  • The process has a strong documentary character: I’m producing digital-collages from the collected material, forming a complex summary of the decisive events, increasing the density. These collages are the starting point of the drawings.

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    Peoples Performativity | 2014

The project is using like starting-point the representation method of the scandalous paintings commissioned for the New Hungarian Constitution (2011. November) by the Government. I try to show the events of recent past with the same method.