Gábor Pintér also creates paintings, paper works and installations made using the traditional oil-on-canvas technique. His paintings are pictures of life that process strange situations and primarily reflect a critical view of the consumer society of our time. Vivid colors, powerful gestures and thick brush strokes characterize his expressive canvases, which at the same time record both real and hypothetical scenes, often conveying a realistic and surreal effect at the same time. However, Pintér does not try to mislead by painting pictorial puzzles that require solving through the surrealistic juxtaposition of everyday things. With these paintings, he would rather point out a specific phenomenon of thinking, the process when things come to mind arbitrarily and involuntarily without any kind of context or larger narrative, when one image leads to another without any apparent connection.
Studies
2003-2008 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, majoring in painting
His exhibitions at Deák Erika Gallery
2021 The fly always tries to fly out through the closed sash of the window after great ideas
2019 Socrates asks the orator Protagoras to cut himself short, because during a long speech he forgets what he was talking about
2017 Threshold reaching the sky
2015 Seven seasons
2014 On paper
2013 Aliens in your target shot
2011 Now
Selected individual exhibitions
2021 All you can’t eat, Dinghi, Budapest
The fly always tries to fly out through the closed sash of the window after great ideas, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
Untitled (Untitled), aqb Project Space, Budapest
2019 Socrates asks the orator Protagoras to cut himself short, because during a long speech he forgets what he was talking about, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
2017 Threshold reaching the sky, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
2015 Seven seasons, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
The same somehow, Óbuda Társaskör Gallery, Budapest
2011 Now, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
2009 Goodbye, Fészek Club, Budapest
Group exhibitions
2021 Esterházy Art Award exhibition, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Boys Boys Boys, Camera Obscura, Perdika
2019 Leverkühn formula, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2018 Reverso, Spazio22, Milan
Be clear, aqb Project Space, Budapest
2017 Esterházy Art Award, Ludwig Museum
2016 Reproduced Paradise, Váncza Villa, Budapest
2015 Vacation simulator, Dunaújváros
Hungarian Painting Day, Bálna, Budapest
2014 On Paper, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
2013 Strangers in their target, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest
2010 In between, Pécs
2009 More light, Holdudvar Gallery, Budapest
Fresh 2009, Kogart Ház, Budapest
2008 The end, Dorottya Gallery, Budapest
Best of Diploma, MKE, Barcsai room, Budapest
The latest refutation of time, Iroquois Collection, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Lena Roselli Salon exhibition, Szentendre
2007 Pop, Objects, Etc, acb Gallery, Budapest
Pop, Objects, etc., Irokéz Gallery, Szombathely
Enter, Thurzo Gallery, Budapest
2006 Tour Festival, Budapest
2005 7. Tannery Capriccio, Székesfehérvár
Minimum Festival, Kultiplex firewall, Budapest
2004 Public, Street, Tactical, Műcsarnok Bistro, Budapest
ARC billboard competition, Budapest
Second floor, Műcsarnok Bistro, Budapest
2003 Guerrilla propaganda, Dinamo Club, Budapest
Awards, scholarships
2021 Telegraph residency program, Olomouc CZ
Esterházy Art Award nominee
2009 Creative Scholarship
2007 Ludwig Scholarship, MKEĐ