ARTIST STATEMENT

About the „Birds are coming…”series:  

I wanted to make a collection of birds - to create an own, idyllic one for myself. I wanted to be surrounded with different kind of tableaus, like those you can see in a bird adverb books. Roosters with shimmering tail feathers in a gold-colored country-yard, a peacock on a midden - this is what I began with, but the process had turned into a reseach, a hunt to discover other, rather unusual birds. I organised and represented them in a crowded and stratified, narrow field to emphasize the difference between the spieces. I wanted to avoid the narrative: any kind of movement or physical contact between birds was neglected and only the acknowledgement of the other birds’ disturbing proximity was allowed. To paint them made me really really happy. Buxom pigeons, ruffled doves, black swans, cormorants, blue white peacock, ruff, naked neck, silver gray Dalmatian pelican, vultures, ornamental fowl, ornamental roosters – were the types I painted. Sometimes (maybe because of their tiny size) I rewarded the smallest birds on the tableau with different treats: once, I put a rat into a sparrow’s beak, which was twice the sparrow’s size. It was extremely enjoyable to paint the pinkish or reddish parts of the birds like cams, beaks, crests and craws. They reminded me of glossy and membranous internal organs. It made me feel like I was painting a purple liver and not a gnarled beak of a swan; it seemed rather like a hurt - blood vessels rich than a throat puch of a pelican, or the testicles and not the wattles of a cock.

Deer with peruke:

I wanted to represent the love of the naked man and his animal. I chose my own animals. I wanted to have beautiful animals around me so I chose the peacock, the deer, the vulture, or the wolf. I wanted to recreate myself in the chosen animals. I was able to identify with a peculiar specimen on a deeper level than with the others: I found that my personality is particularly compatible with the so-called deer with peruke. This unusual type of deer is extremly rare and it is only known by few. On account of a testicle injur, the animal's level of testosterone gets upset and instead of growing hard antlers as do the others, the buck gets stuck with a soft and tuberous excrescence. As a result of this, the animal is going to be ignored as a male by the herd, won't be able to recreate, can't defend himself, and in most cases it is doomed to perish soon. 

BIOGRAPHY

1986. Szombathely, Hungary 
Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary  

Education: 
2015. Doctoral Studies, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
2014. Summer Academy Salzburg
2004- 2009. Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary Painting department, in the class of Arpad Szabados 
2007. Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, Germany, 
2000-2004 Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts, Budapest  

Works in Collections: 
Romer Floris Museum of Fine Arts and History, Gyor
Works in private collections are in Hungary, in Switzerland, in Poland.

Membership: From 2011 member of FKSE, Studio of Young Artists Association.

Prizes:
2014. Grant of the Summer Academy Salzburg
2007.Erasmus-scholarship, Nürnberg  

Solo Exhibitions: 
2015. "Butcher's Jewel, Platan Gallery, Budapest, HU
2013. “Birds are coming..”Blitz Galeria, Budapest, HU 
2013. Rolandberger, Organized by FKSE, Budapest, HU 
2012. Bumbum Pop Up, with Szabolcs Szolnoki, Budapest, HU 
2012. Open studios, FKSE, Budapest, HU 
2012. “Portraits and Carcasses” with Zsolt Molnar, LABOR, Budapest, HU 
2011. Bumbum Gallery, Budapest , HU  

Selected Group Exhibitions: 
2015. Boomerang, Írokez Gallery, Off-Biennale, Szombathely, HU
2014.Az én műterem, a te műtered, FKSE, Budapest,HU
2014.”Girls know it, boys theydon’t” Platan Galeria, Budapest, HU
2013. Patron, FKSE, Budapest, HU 2013. December Auction, Blitz Galeria, Budapest, HU 
2013. 45.International Artistic Symposium, Gyor, Romer Floris Museum for Fine Arts and History, HU 
2013. Spring Auction, Blitz Galeria, Budapest , HU , catalog 
2013. Reloaded, Blitz Galeria, Budapest, HU 
2012.Critical Tinkering - Curator’s Network Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, HU(catalog) Organized by FKSE. 
2012.„ORGANS and EXTASY” Central Slovakian Gallery, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia ( catalog) 
2012.„SEXYANIMAL” Institute of Contemporary Art Dunaujvaros, HU Annual exhibition of FKSE Arpad Bucsi, Adam Dallos, Horror Pista, Laszlo Karacsonyi, Veronika Romhany Curator: Petra Csizek 
2011. Budapest Art Market, with BumBum Gallery, Budapest, HU 
2011.Falk Art Forum, BumBum Gallery, Budapest, HU 
2011.„Kezdodik” FKSE, Budapest, HU
2010. Budapest Art Fair, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle ,with BumBum Gallery, 
2010. Budapest Art Fair, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle ,with BumBum Gallery, Budapest, HU 
2010.ARS HOMO EROTICA, National Museum Warsaw, Poland, On the front cover of the catalog. Curator: Pawel Leszkowicz. Ars Homo Erotica was a largely reviewed exhibition in various international media all around the world. ART FORUM INTERNATIONAL, The Artnewspaper, Washington Post, Liberation, Arte.tv, Süddeutsche Zeitung, ZDF, Tetu.com, Gazeta, etc. 
2009. FRESH 2009, Kogart, Budapest, HU 
2008.„DIAGNOSIS” Polish Institute, Budapest, HU 
2008.Ludwig scolarship, Barcsay Hall, Budapest, HU 
2007. I. Photo Biennal, Dunaujvaros, HU 
2007. „A Szabados osztaly” Polish Institute,Budapest, HU
2007. Ludwig scholarship, Barcsay Hall, Budapest, HU  

Bibliography: 
2013. Mucsi Emese: Vedd eszre! Vilagosan itt all! exindex.hu 
2012. “Kontextus” Gallery Karton, edited by Kata Oltai 
2012. “Organs and Extasy”catalog, Banská Bystrica, SK, Zsofia Rechnitzer, Nemes Z.Mario
2012. Curator’s Network Budapest, catalog, FKSE/SYAA 
2012. Humen magazine, 2012/9, Adam Dallos 
2011. The Room 13. „Canon and gunpowder” 
2010. Pawel Leszkowicz: „A muveszet gyozelmet arat a tabuk felett”, Muzeumcafé, 2010. 10/11. 
2010. Tibor Singer: „In the pink”, Time out Budapest,2010/11. 
2010. Maja and Reuben Fowkes: „In the studio/ Adam Dallos”, Time out Budapest, 2010/08. 
2010. Pawel Leszkowicz: ARS HOMO EROTICA 
2010. Gazeta Wyborcza, 2010. 06. 24.
2009. Ujmuészet, 2009/09. 
2007. Photo Biennal of Dunaujvaros catalog