Istvan Mate

I was born in Nyíregyháza, Hungary on June 19, 1983. When I was 9, I started ballroom dancing. I competed domestically and internationally for 14 years. In 2007 I graduated from the Hungarian Dance Academy. I am still educating young people. I finished active dancing this year, after nearly 30 years. I started working in the fine arts in 2018. At first I was engaged in portrait drawing, after a year I switched to painting. I soon realized that I wanted to deal with the abstract trend, because in it I can best express my currently feelings, thoughts, mental state. So anyone looking at my paintings can get to know a piece of me as well.

One of the most important aspects of my art is to break out of the rules and traditional frameworks. My main source of inspiration is music, including Rock, Punk, and Hungarian Undergrund styles. Their main message to me is freedom. Or the desire for freedom, to experience the feeling of freedom as many times as possible. Every time I paint, I feel perfect freedom over and over again. With my works, I want to convey this to the audience. The colors I use reflect my emotional state, and the forms are made up of the rhythm, melodies, and harmonies of the music I’m listening to.
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2024 Nomadshow (Nomadworks New York, &Amp; Golden Duck Gallery Budapest) New York, United States

2024 Abstractum 24' (Golden Duck Gallery) Budapest, Hungary

2024 Papillon Carnevale Catalog Exhibition (Fine Arts Capital Art Association) Dávid Art Gallery Budapest, Hungary

2024 Artdeco 24 (Golden Duck Gallery) Budapest, Hungary

2023 Christmart 23' (Golden Duck Gallery) Budapest, Hungary

2023 No Limits 23' (Golden Duck Gallery) Budapest, Hungary

2023 Artbias 23' (Teravarna Art Gallery, Los Angelals C Golden Duck Gallery, Budapest) Budapest, Hungary

2022 Monaco Art Fair Monte Carlo, Monaco

2022 Colorida Galeria De Arte (Collective Exhibition) Lisbon, Portugal