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BIOGRAPHY |
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| Born in Hungary
in 1966, Peter Solymosi grew up in Dunaujvaros, a small town on the Danube.
In 1985 he left Hungary and immigrated to Sweden as a political dissident.
As a linguistic student in Sweden, Solymosi began to paint seriously. His
most interesting works from this period are his "excavation paintings".
These paintings consist of objects seemingly uncovered, layer by layer as
if the canvas is an archeological site. In 1992, after the sweeping political
changes in Hungary, he returned to attend the prestigious Academy of Fine
Arts in Budapest. At the Academy Solymosi studied under Gabor Dienes. He
began to focus on landscapes, portraits and still lives. These paintings
are marked by his intense attachment to line and light. Like his earlier
works, they are layered with subtle allegory, but this time told by the
curve of a horizon or the shadow of a glass filled with water. His first
New York paintings and graphic print series are inspired by the lifeforms
and unconscious shapes in the city. These series are made on themes as "cockroach"
or "pilings". Painting and printmaking go hand in hand, the different techniques
develop eachother. "Your printmaking is a significant reminder of your technical inventiveness in eloquent service to your strange and evocative images. The forms you conjure up out of the richly layered textures stir up complex responses: flashes of figuration followed by visceral reactions to what seem to be pure light and heat. The beauty of your surfaces serve up a feast for the eyes, but tantalizingly invite the viewer to touch, and while the textures assert their existence on the surface of the paper, the space you suggest is difficult to measure. The darks are a foil to the light emanating from within". Roberta Waddell, Curator of Prints at The New York Public Library. May 2000. Lately I've been applying a certain intuition for redefining (Euclidean) geometry. I enjoy meditating by the riverfront and the latest works reflect on the rhythm and athmosphere seen there. F.e.: "The river as a symbol represents the flow of mind, its appearances and shapes change every second, therefore there is no such thing as East River in New York City but a drifting with the flow of images anchored in moods of realization. This city is a Beast, i.e. the collective mind of its inhabitants appears as a brute, instinctive creature." April 2007. Currently alive in New Delhi, India Related education 1992-1997 Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest Hungary Fine Arts Degree, Painting Faculty (MFA equivalent) Exhibitions:
Permanent: 1998 The New York Public Library 1997 Dunaujvaros City Hall 1997 Swedish Embassy Budapest |
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