Kata SZALAI
painter
- Award winner
- In the press
- Solo exhibitions
- Work in a public collection
"I was first interested in handwriting. The visuality of successive lines, continuous writing can be enhanced to the feeling of infinity."
"Kata Szalai paints the texts accurately, like some runaway title painter. It does not paint their meaning, not what they are about, but the lines of large, printed letters. He acquires it, internalizes it, uses it, enters into a relationship with it, lives with it like a sovereign, so he is a great reader. He paints himself into the text and paints the text into himself, because the process, the path to the finished, painterly reading is at least as important as the final result, the art object on the wall." - Lajos Parti Nagy
Works from the artist's oeuvre
Solo exhibitions
2022
Corridors of repetition, Life Sciences Gallery, Debrecen
2012
Pictures, B24 Gallery, Debrecen, H
2007
Two butterflies flutter, City Gallery, Pécs, H
2002
Dance of Whales, Dovin Gallery, Budapest, H
2011
Soda ride, Dovin gallery, Budapest, H
Group exhibitions
2017
The drawn eros, MODEM, Debrecen, H
2016
Gémpocs, MODEM, Debrecen, H
2015
Redesign, MODEM, Debrecen, H
2006
The Strabag painting prize is 10 years old, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, H
2006
Pinczehelyi and his student, Prague, CZ
1999
Scholarship recipients, Hungarian Academy of Rome, Rome, I
Press releases
2007
Lajos Parti Nagy: Poems, Present
2005
Márta Kovalovszky, Work with feverish slowness, New Art
2004
György Várkonyi, Kon/text/akt/us, Moving world
Prizes
2002
The Lisbon scholarship of the capital municipality
2000
Jenő Barcsay award
1999
Magyar Aszfalt Kft. (Strabag) painting III. fee
1998
Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome
