Péter Földi exhibition

The ex­hi­bit­ion shows a cross-sec­ti­on of the oeuvre of Kos­suth and Prima Pri­mis­si­ma Award-win­ning pain­ter Péter Földi. It fo­cus­es in par­ti­cu­lar on his works crea­ted after the turn of the mil­len­ni­um, but also of­fers an in­sight into the de­ve­lop­ment of his cha­rac­te­r­is­tic style of paint­ing. Péter Földi gra­du­a­ted in ma­the­ma­tics and art from the Tea­cher Train­ing Col­l­e­ge of Eger, and after his stu­di­es re­turned to the vil­lage of his birth, So­mos­kő­új­fa­lu in Nóg­rád County, where he has lived and crea­ted ever since. He takes his ins­p­ira­ti­on from the day-to-day life of the vil­lage, the farms, gar­dens, pets and li­ves­tock or the local pubs, but this micro-en­vi­ron­ment is en­lar­ged onto a cos­mic, trans­cen­den­tal plane th­ro­ugh his art. He po­pu­la­tes his works with di­ver­se human, ani­mal and plant forms of life, pain­ted using a sys­tem of vivid pat­ches of co­lo­ur, often dra­wing the sce­nes from an unu­su­al pers­pec­tive – such as from very high up, or per­haps from se­ve­ral view­points. His mini-dra­mas, with their ge­ne­rous hel­ping of play­ful­ness and irony, have much in com­mon with the world of child­ren’s dra­wings and folk art. The wor­ka­day events are som­etimes given a fan­tas­ti­cal or myt­ho­log­i­cal ho­ri­zon, but there is no point in se­ar­ch­ing for fa­mi­li­ar sce­nes be­hind the pic­tu­res, as the nar­ra­tive al­ways re­ma­ins in­di­vi­du­al and sove­reign. Bes­ides the oil paint­ings, Kun­sthal­le Bu­da­pest’s first ret­ros­pec­tive ex­hi­bit­ion of Péter Földi’s work also inc­lu­des a se­lec­ti­on of bron­ze sta­tues.

cura­tor: Zol­tán Rocken­ba­u­er