Peter Ridovics

From the speech given by Fernando Perpiná Robert at Péter Ridovics’ exhibition:

“Every painting of Peter Ridovics is, indeed, full of life, full of his passion for life, full of his
intense emotional relationship with the object he paints. Light plays an essential role in his
paintings and that is why it has been written that “his motivations are endless since he is
living in a world of changing light.”

Fernando Perpiná Robert,
Ambassador of Spain,
Budapest,
04. 12. 2000.

“We are in the world to be at home in it. Indeed, the dominant aesthetic, visual quality of these
pictures is the non-alienated life, and the beauty that carries it. In Ridovics’ composition and
colours, the themes of humanity are in harmony, and such aesthetic qualities, such as ugliness, grotesqueness are lacking or barely appear. The artist’s ars poetica encourages him to seek the themes and tools that express the approval of life, to see the beauty and humanity, and he finds these in his interiors, portraits, landscapes, stills, or in appropriation of interpersonal relationships.”

Dr Péter Szigeti,
Philosopher of Law.


Born on the 19th of July 1953 in Budapest, Hungary.
Studied photography at the Secondary School of Visual Arts, B...

1972-77 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Fin Art - Painting. Master: Szilárd Iván

1967-71 Secondary School of Visual Arts in Budapest,
Photography. Teacher: Klára Langer

Selected Exhibitions:

2013
Städtisches Museum Engen + Galerie, Engen, Germany;

2012
Gallery of Cegléd, Cegléd, Kossuth Cultural Centre & Library (group exhibition);

2011
100 years old the Art Colony of Százados Street, Siklós Castle, Siklós (group exhibition);

2010
József Attila Cultural Centre of 13. District, Budapest;

2009
Museum of Fonyód, Fonyód;

2008
ELTE University Club of Professors, Budapest;
ELTE University Club of Professors, Budapest (group exhibition);

2007
Feng Shui Gallery, Fonyód;

2006
Bibliotheque of Kaposvár, Kaposvár;
OTP Bank Gallery, Budapest;
Retrospective: 95 years of the Art Colony of Százados Street, Pataki Gallery, Budapest (group exhibition);
Retrospective: 95 years of the Art Colony of Százados Street, Moldvay Győző Gallery, Hatvan (group exhibition);

2005
Csók István Gallery, Budapest;

2004
Ráday Gallery, Budapest;
Kempinsky Gallery, Kempinsky Hotel, Budapest;
Retrospective: 90 years of the Art Colony of Százados Street, The Historical Museum of Budapest (group exhibition);

2002
World Bank, Budapest;

2001
Armenian Cultural Center, Budapest;
Holló Gallery, Debrecen;
Astra Zeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden;

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