Lorant Agoston

I mould my philosophy into visual form in such a way that I consciously give up using various painting tools in order to focus solely on the gist. Therefore the figures in my pictures are plain-like, unshaded, I rarely apply 3D effects in the background and even if I do so, they are only indicative. The emphasis is on the figures’ movements, on simplified colour-usage, on the choice and application of different materials. The strong outlines of shapes act as cohesive frames of our selves. Collages are made of materials (rubbish) useless to others. They are mainly paper-based. The pictures are very personal, most of them were born actually due to a special kind of cooperation.
The surfaces of my figures are filled with children’s drawings. Namely for my first such picture I used up my eldest daughter’s old divinity notebook with my 3rd grader girl’s psalm. She wrote the following: „Be my sister blest for she is an autist. For she has to behave well at school and her teachers’ have to pay attention to her. Give her happiness in her full ages, as well!” It is merely thought-provoking where this kind of sensitivity, love, empathy disappears from most of us. After this I started collecting my autist daughter’s scribble drawings and ...

2008-2010 JASU, MA, Teacher of Art and Visual Culture,
Szeged, Hungary
1995-1997 JASU, BSc (Ecology), Szeged, Hungary
1991-1995 JGTTC, BA, Teacher of Arts and Geography,
Szeged, Hungary

2015 OPEN HOUSE exhibition, Budapest
2014 SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2014 Gallery of the University of Szeged, Hungary
2012 ‘zETNA Gallery’, Senta , Serbia
2012 Szilády Áron Gimnázium Gallery, Kiskunhalas, Hungary
2010 Grand Café, Szeged, Hungary
2009 Dobó Tihamér Gallery, Kanjiza, Serbia
2008 Teacher’s Training Collage Gallery, Subotica, Serbia
2008 SULUV Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia
2006 Duna Múzeum Gallery, Esztergom, Hungary
2005 MÉH Gallery, Szeged, Hungary
2005 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2005 City Library, Kiskunhalas, Hungary
2003 Diákotthon, Subotica,Yugoslavia
2002 Elvis Cafe, Budapest, Hungary
2001 Zöld Ház Gallery, Esztergom, Hungary
2000 József Attila Gallery, Esztergom, Hungary
1999 City Library, Senta, Yugoslavia
1999 Kanjiza, Yugoslavia
1998 Rimska Dvorana, Beograd; Library, Novi Knezevac, Yugoslavia

A large number of Group Exhibitions in Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovakia, Finnland, Romania, France, Poland and Italy.