Drift Painting

Csaba Szegedi has had solo exhibitions in Hungary and abroad regularly since 1985 and has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world. His works can be found in prestigious domestic and international public collections and private homes worldwide from the USA to India and from Finland to New-Zealand. He was born in Hungary, and grew up with an unbroken, committed interest in drawing and painting since his early childhood. He studied graphics at the High-school of Fine and Applied Arts 1974-1978 and then completed his award-winning studies at the Academy of Fine Arts 1981-1988 in Budapest. After his early years in search of his own pictorial form language, he was awarded with a DAAD stipendium and artist residency at the historic Atelierhaus Worpswede in Germany and then lived in Munich. His art has been celebrated with prestigious prizes and awards es well as artist residencies in historic Institutions such as the Hungarian Academy in Rome. He lives now in Velence, Hungary, and he is professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest. For Csaba Szegedi, art is about exploring reality, getting to know the world, and marveling at the mystery of existence. Its aim is to capture beauty and achieve the magic of ascension toward an increased awareness. The picture is an imprint of the transcendent moment of creation becoming eternal. His positive philosophy of life is manifested in the vivid yet subtle chromacity of his paintings and his thoughtful compositions reflect his constructive worldview. Csaba is a well-trained conscientious and aware artist with the freedom of a sensitive creativity and imagination. In his words: Art is order and adventure. He creates his abstractions inspired by natural visual experiences or meteorological phenomena with a thoughtful yet impulsive composition and color dynamics. The way his pictures are edited ranges from geometric constructive to expressive abstract, but what characterizes his work in general is a kind of impressionistic abstraction. Although he is at home in most graphic and painting techniques, in recent times he still works primarily with acrylic, less with oil, as this makes it easier to apply his special layer-on-layer pentimenti technique. He has developed this painting method to achieve that characteristic intensity of chromatic richness echoing the complexity of reality in his works.