Exhibition

"In the diversity with which a piece of nature becomes a landscape, Georg Simmel says that order can be created " if we look at the landscape in the form of a painterly work of art" (Sándor Radnóti: Simmel and the Landscape).

My endeavour to make the interconnection of nature-landscape-artwork part of a creative process defines my work as a painter. The aim of this operation is to record the landscape that is personified and found, and even more so the landscape that is found.

The small group of images entitled Unexpected Journey is intended to document the complex of experiences when, through a sudden decision or a situation of necessity, one sets out on a journey and becomes part of an unusual, unplanned observation.

The Unexpected Journey is a recording of these experiences through my own painterly language."

                                                               István Sinkó

 

István Sinkó (1951) teacher, visual artist, art writer. Since 1975 he has been teaching in primary schools (34 years) and in vocational secondary schools (14 years at the Vocational Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts). He is head of the painting department at the vocational secondary school. Currently retired. President of the Society of Hungarian Painters. Corresponding member of the MMA. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ernő Fischer Foundation. He has taught at ELTE (museum pedagogy) and was a mentor teacher at MOME. He has had 52 solo exhibitions in Hungary and abroad (Germany, USA, Canada, Belgium). His works are in the most important Hungarian public and private collections. His articles on art criticism appear regularly in the Új Művészet, Országút and Élet és Irodalom. He has published in numerous journals. He has published 2 books and several studies on art education.

 

Photocredit: ©Réka Hegyháti