Jozsef Gyecsek

1970 Born in Szentgotthard " Jozsef Gyecsek's painting expands and grows richer with slow, subtle, hardly observable changes and conquers for his paintings those scenes of the world perceptible to our senses which he has already stalked. His materials: sackcloth, packthread, glue, plywood, oil colour, chalk, graphite, paper, copper, brass and brass plate. He tears, cuts, binds, screws, threads the edge of the canvas, sticks, primes, he applies mass with hand or with a spatula. He paints at once or in more layers, uses glaze or scribbles. He makes use of luck and contingency. The fallible, patched, torn waste-canvases, which are stuck on the picture bring the sight closer to the spectator, they resemble familiar sensations of touching and bring back obscure memories. Sometimes painting does nothing more but emphasizes the spatial elements of the relief-composition made up of patches, sewings and threads. Jzsef Gycsek knows that a surface should not be burdened with more than it can take optimally. Some of his paintings are imbued with a kind of ease. The quantity, weight and proportion of shapes, colours and formations are calmly considered. It can be suspected that the seemingly simpliest, elegantly executed composi...

1989-1993 Academic studies at Berzsenyi Daniel Teachers' Training College in Szombathely Major: Drawing and History 1994-1997 Student at the Master's School of Fine Arts, Janus Pannonius University in Pecs Faculty of Painting, Prof. Ilona Keserü ,

2016 "From A to V (& back)", Gallery Arcis, Sárvár (H)
2015 Church Gallery, Szentgotthárd (H)
2013 "Reflexions", ArtBázis, Budapest (H) (with Csaba Oroszy and Zoltán Telek)
2008-2009 "ENTROPY", ArtBázis, Budapest (H)
"ENTROPY", Szombathely Art Gallery (H)
"ENTROPY", Small Gallery, Pécs (H)
2006 "18 Small Heidelberg's", Buchhandlung Himmelheber, Heidelberg (D)
2005 Embassy of The Republic of Hungary, Ljubljana (SLO)
Gallery of Ljubljana's Painters Association, Ljubljana (SLO)
2004 "Closing Pictures", House of Arts, Szombathely (H)
2003 "Closing Pictures", Small Gallery, Pécs (H)
Hotel Lipa, Szentgotthárd (H) (with Ferenc Király)
2001 Zsida (H) (with Imre Nagy and Gábor U. Nagy)
Downtown Antique, Budapest (H)
2000 Paracelsus Clinic, München (D) (with Krisztina Lehoczky)
Hotel Rubin, Budapest (H)
MEGA Sat GmbH, Düsseldorf (D) (with Csaba Oroszy, Balázs Telek and Zoltán Telek)
1999 Town Theatre and Slovenian Information and Culture Centre, Szentgotthárd (H)
1998 Gallery Eremitage, Göttingen (D)
"Home Dreams", Town Concert and Exhibition Hall, Zalaegerszeg (H)*
"Home Dreams", House of Culture called Ferenc Erdei, Kecskemét (H)*
"Home Dreams", House of County Culture, Eger (H)*
(*with Ágnes Árvai, Márta ...