featured artists: Dénes Marόti-Bόdy

Hungarian
Dénes’ work immediately strikes the viewer as being strongly rooted in a very thorough understanding of the traditions of the pictorial idiom. His work is strewn with references to classical imagery (such as St Michael and the Dragon) yet this may not be immediately apparent other that in the titles. Figures in well known groupings and portraits of unknown faces are as Dénes puts it, observed through his ´ controlled application of forms of colour, not to mention spatiality´. Repetitive figures and the use of few but powerful colours coupled to a very fine drawing technique lead the viewer further along from the strong initial visual impact. We come to consider the notion that ´the use of repetition, as a conscious constituent element, stresses that artistic creativity is not a discrete, simplistic, confined entity; but rather operates in systematically restructured situations’.
Education:
2005                 Hungarian Academy of Fine Art
Exhibitions:
Solo Shows:
2008                 Instinctively, Glasgow
2008                 Austin Gallery, London
    
Group Shows:
2009                 Clase Contemporary, Affordable Art Fair, London
2009                 Clase Contemporary, Buy Art Fair, Manchester, UK
2009                 Figuratively Speaking, Penryn, UK
2009                 Group Exhibition, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest
2009                 Clase Fine Art, D.C. Spring Show, Washington D.C., USA
2008                 From the Street to the Atelier: Homage to Keith Haring, The Art  Factory, Budapest, Hungrary
2007                 Sparks Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006                 Festival of circuit, Budapest, Hungary
2006                 Globalization, Budapest, Hungary
2005                 Freisschess Europe, Berlin, Germany
2005                 KOGART Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2003                 Winter exhibition XVII., Miskolc, Hungary
2002                 Renaissance Gallery, Switzerland
2001                 Papírhajó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2000                 Biennale of ‘Aquarelle’, Eger, Hungary
show biography
Faces
Silkscreen printed in colour, ed. of 40, signed numbered and dated
size: 330x175mm
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St Martin & Dragon
Silkscreen printed in colour, ed. of 20, signed numbered and dated
size: 210x297mm
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St Martin & Dragon
Etching on Fabriano paper, ed. of 11, signed, titled and numbered
size: 210x297mm
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Jacobs ladder (detail)
Etching on Fabriano paper, ed. of 5, signed, titled and numbered
size: sheet size 705mm x 170mm
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Faces
Mixed media on artist's board
size: 71x172cm
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Lewis Cage (the Young Cricketer)
acrylic on canvas
size: 91.5x60.5cm
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Master John Truman-Villebois and his brother Henry
Mixed media on canvas
size: 90x60cm
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Nexus
Linocut on Fabriano paper, ed. of 20
size: 41 x 17.5cm
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Dante's Inferno
Two plate etching on one sheet of Fabriano paper, ed. of 10
size: 13 x 25 (image size)
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Gates of Hell, left wing
Etching on Fabriano paper, ed. of 10
size: 57.5 x 25cm
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Gates of Hell, right wing
Etching on Fabriano paper, ed. of 10
size: 57.5 x 25cm
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