"Scar Islands / edition of 10 plus 2 artist proof, Giclée print" Photograph

Peter Kiss's ouevre embraces a wide range of genres and almost all kinds of mediums which not only the field of fine arts might yield, but the wide and rich environment surrounding us might have. For he conceives art as a special dimension within life, a state of mind, more like a playground, where forces of the universe, scientific experiments, logical and rational observations coincide with human, organic fallibility, uncertain and vulnerable personal subjective feelings, perceptions, sensational intuitions and decisions and in his works they all together come into reaction so as to make up a strange concoction which once yields a kind of phenomena, a newborn creature which we could call work of art. Peter Kiss was born in Siklós (Hungary) in 1962. Graduated as a painter in 1987 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, where he was called back to become assistant artist professor at the faculty of painting in 1995, which he still maintains. As an individual, he has been a practicing professional fine artist for almost 30 years by now. Over the years he had several solo shows and participated in many collective exhibitions including Hungary, Germany, South Korea and US and Australia. During a period of his life he also worked as a scene painter and storyboard artist. As a gifted young man he was impressed by the work of great old masters, and thus dedicated himself to be a painter. As an adolescent, he already acquired the knowledge of the masterstrokes of studium drawing and traditional painting. During the years of the Academy he became interested in traditional b&w photography and began using traditional darkroom techniques and working with photographic materials such as silver gelatin and ammonium dichromate metods. Taking advantage of his already acquired exhaustive repertoir of diverse mediums he even developed his own secret alternative processes. As a result came the productivity of countless innovative projects, images and installations. Although, according to himself, he never has actually given up painting, his works became much more photography based. However, due to his past and the everlasting, romantic affection to painting, his photographs always contain a slight hint of painting, we could say they are 'paintings painted by light' (László Kelemen, 1989). From this time on, his works became undoubtedly conceptually based, as he himself explains it. /'My work is conceptually based whilst being emotionally charged.