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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

 

Awards:

2010                 Runner up, Nemzetközi Festészeti Kiállítás, Budapest, Hungrary

 

Exhibitions:

 

Solo Shows:

2011                 Instinctively, Madách Theater, Tolnay Salon, Budapest, Hungary

2011                 Galleria 18, Budapest, Hungrary

2008                 Instinctively, Glasgow

2008                 Austin Gallery, London

 

    

Group Shows:

2011                 Contemporary Printmaking, Orion Contemporary, London

2010                 Potokoll Gallery, Contemporary graphic-art fair, Piliscsaba, Hungary

2010                 Orion Contemporary, AAF, London

2010                 Potokoll Gallery, Price Waterhouse HQ, Budapest, Hungary

2010                 Bi-cycles, Csepel Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2010                 Orion Contemporary, AAF, Brussels

2009                 Clase Contemporary, AAF, 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