“I’m not making pictures, it’s an element of life in the art space again.”I am Antal Turcsányi a painter. He was born in 1940 in Tiszakanyár. He graduated from the College of Fine Arts in 1962, where the great János Kmetty was a master.
As a student, it was a great responsibility to start the career as an independent artist, but he soon found his way and was able to put his own individual vision on canvas quickly. His images are object-oriented, based on free association. It paints spontaneously, only in the rarest of cases as planned. It is an outstanding and unrepeatable figure of Hungarian contemporary painting.
While painting, he is constantly looking for the secret to the idea that motivates and inspires the creation. The real being of man has always been the subject of his interest. The philosophical interpretation and map of mythological figures and the covert formulation of divine laws have always been part of his paintings.
The essence of his art is the compelling power of instinctive love of life and invention. A vigilant spiritual presence, impression, and accumulation of experiences allows for the formation of indispensable imagery in art.
Different creative methods, materials and techniques encourage the creation of different types of images. His paintings are rich against dramatic themes and have a perfectly unique color scheme. His drawings are not the representations of his paintings, but their own images, in their simple technicality, essentially carry the essence of what is being said. Drawings and pictures are characterized by the same pictorial thinking.
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About the exhibitions:
His first solo exhibition opened in 1972 in Budapest, which was later followed by several others. Larger stations were the exhibitions at the Hungarian Institute in Prague in 1994 and in the United States in 1996. He is a regular participant in the group exhibitions of the Hungarian Painters’ Association.
Professional association memberships:
National Association of Hungarian Artists
Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists
Society of Hungarian Festivals
Solo exhibitions:
1972 Csepel Gallery, Budapest
1990 Budapest Gallery Exhibition House
1992 House of Hungarian Culture, Prague
1993 Horváth & Lukács Gallery, Nagycenk
1994 Danube Gallery, Budapest
1994 Hungarian Institute in Prague
1994 Atrium Hyatt, Budapest
1996 J. M. Moudy Exhibition Hall, Fort Worth, USA
1998 Sports Hall, Kelebia
2000 Gulácsy Gallery, Szeged
2001 Sonja Pintér Contemporary Gallery, Budapest
2001 Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
2003 AstraZeneca Gallery, Törökbálint
2003 Ecological College Art Gallery, Budapest
2003 Sonja Pintér Contemporary Gallery, Budapest
2004 Red Salon of the Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest
2005 Zsókavár Gallery, Budapest
2005 Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands (with Miklós Ganczaugh, Albert Kováts, Katalin Mózes)
2006 BRIDGE Transdanubia Visual Workshop, Nagykanizsa
2007 City Gallery, Szigetszentmiklós
2008 Budapest Exhibition Hall
Group exhibitions:
2018 Art Gallery “From 9 Studios” c group exhibition
Fees:
1999 Award of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, “Melancholy” 1999.
2001 Patak Gallery Painting Grand Prix, “Island Vintage”
2005 Farkas István Foundation Award, IV. Szekszárd Painting Triennial
