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Revision as of 12:43, 3 April 2006 by Pearle (talk | contribs) (Changing {{wikify}} to {{wikify-date|March 2006}})(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Template:Wikify-date Istvan Arkossy is a Hungarian painter and graphic artist, born in 1943 in Clausenburg, he currently lives in Budapest, Hungary. Istvan graduated at the University of Fine Arts in Clausenburg in 1966. Member of Association of Hungarian Creative Artists, Federation of Hungarian Fine and Applied Arts Societies and Association of Hungarian Graphic Artists.
Individual exhibitions:
1972, 1976, 1982 Clausenburg; 1984 Young Artists Club Budapest; 1988 Gutenberg Gallery Budapest; 1988 Medgyessy Saloon Debrecen; 1989 Dürer Saloon Budapest; 1989 Art Exhibition Center Stuttgart Germany; 1989 Geretsried Germany; 1989 Frankfurt am Main Germany; 1992 Asemwald Stuttgart Germany; 1993 Csók Gallery Budapest; 2003 Korunk Gallery Clausenburg; 2004 Vármegye Gallery Budapest.
Foreign collective exhibitions:
1986 Titograd Yugoslavia; 1978 Joan Miró International Drawing Contest Barcelona Spain; 1979 Small Graphic Biennale Lodz Poland; 1980 Ex Libris Exhibition Linz Austria; 1981 Sint Niklaas Belgium; 1982 Small Graphic Exhibition Athens Greece; 1983 Collective Migrant Exhibition USA; 1983 Graphic Biennale Ljubliana Yugoslavia; 1986 Graphic Exhibition New York USA; 1988 Tampere Finland; 1988 Antwerpen Belgium; 1990 Ex Libris Biennale Malbork Poland; 1990 Mönchengladbach Germany; 1991 Graphic Biennale Lodz Poland; 1992 Exhibition of Artists of Budapest München Germany; 1993 Glinde Germany.
Domestic exhibitions (Hungary):
1987, 1989, 1991, 2000 National Graphic Biennale Miskolc; 1988, 1990, 1992, 1998, 2000, 2002 National Drawing Biennale Salgótarján; 1991 Árkád Gallery Budapest; 1992, 2002, 2004 National Small Graphic Biennale Újpest Budapest; 1992 Exhibition of Graphic Studios Csók Gallery Budapest; 1999 XXXI.-, 2003 XXXIII. – Alföld Art Exhibition Békéscsaba; 2000 Art Kortárs Gallery and Foundation of Hungarian Graphics: Selected small graphics Budapest ; 2000, 2002 National Pastel Biennale Esztergom; 2001 Foundation of National Culture hall Budapest ; 2002 Ernst Museum Budapest.
Reviewers comments
„…István Árkossy is one of the most multi-faceted personality of the graphic school in Clausenburg, his studio of artistic imagination has been established after occupancy of every genre and method (drawing, etching, collography, illustration, ex libris, poster, brochures, magazine-design and graphics). Later on his graphic activity gets more colorful and in 1982 opens his painting exhibition. His graphical composition matured motifs, signs, associative system of indications are renewed and embedded in his paintings according to the delicate, animative theme- and perspective-faith of the masters of the great artistic eras, renaissance and baroque but at the same time also transformed into romantic and surrealistic fantasies. The dual influence of the concrete and presage of fantastic fantasies, imaginative locations are maximised by the special painting method which nowadays can be only sparsely observed, while his superior drawing skill is radiating in endless color shades…”
Zoltán Banner art historian
„… Árkossy is a delicate appraiser, presenter and faithful chronicler of his intellectual and human era with his approach and his virtute. His world of vision is analogous to the poets' afloating freedom, by showing to the dreamy observer the world's marvels, the potential vision of existence and ruination which the characteristic of poets and dreamers…”
Aladár Lászlóffy Kossuth-prized poet
„… Árkossy is a world creator artist, he is storing the experience of reality deep inside and when he is re-creation, everything in transformed again in a new synthesis, relationship. The artist creates his inner world. A new, deeply thought universe is unfolding in his paintings, drawings and etchings. The cosmic view is associated with universal range of interest…”
Hilda Horváth art historian