Dream of Dionysos Painting

"Ákos BÁNKI was born in 1982 in Hungary. He gained a Master degree in painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2006. He lives and works in Budapest. Ákos is one of the main figures of the new non-figurative painting wave in Hungary. As a total abstract painter who relates to actionism, expressionism, but also conceptualism, and who paints not only with his hand but with his whole body, not only with his mind, but with his guts, the dripping, leaking, flowing energy fields of Ákos Bánki’s works often slap the viewer with their energy, radiance and vibration. Ákos BÁNKI usually associates photographic studies of figurative elements to his series, extracting, transplanting and translating some of them into his abstract language and then integrating it to his paintings. An experienced reality therefore becomes a physical and psychic manifestation. Sweeping aside figuration, he seeks and sneaks into the psychological, emotive, subconscious quarters of chromatism and visuality in order to make it burst from inside, aiming to generate an effect, in other words to affect the viewer." (Róna Kopeczky, curator and art historian)