Márton TAKÁTS

graphic artist, painter

  • Award winner
  • In the press
  • Solo exhibitions
  • Work in a public collection

"In his impressionistic, figurative painting, he thematizes everyday life, with the painterly exploitation of personal presence in the depicted locations. It is as if his goal was "an authentic re-creation of the formal language of figurative painting that has fallen to pieces", as he formulated in 2006, speaking of Tibor Csernus. The paintings in our exhibition offer a contemporary reinterpretation of outdoor, sunlight, or plein air painting without idyll, in the tension of today's life." – Miklós Sulyok, art historian

 

"Approximately sixteen years ago, I put aside the etching needle and started painting. Since then, I have been working on a continuously developing, long-term cycle, which I like to call the "following my missing time" series. These works are part of my personal visual diary. A set of seemingly unordered images, from Paris to Budapest, from the studio of Tibor Csernus to the asphalt road leading to my parents. Jobbára city skylines, street details, interiors, studio details and portraits make up his material. They are all places or people that have somehow played an important role in my life so far, but I hope that, beyond their individual history, they give an interesting impression of the beginning of the twenty-first century in a personal way."

Works available

Works from the artist's oeuvre

Solo exhibitions

2022
Budapest Gallery, H

2019
Kogart Tihany, Tihany, H

2018
Koller Gallery, Budapest, H

2015
Galéria Bartók 32, Budapest, H

2012
Forrás Gallery, Budapest, H

2011
Kogart Gallery, Budapest, H

2010
Forrás Gallery, Budapest, H

2008
Béla Kondor Gallery, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, H

2007
Budapest Gallery Exhibition House, H

Group exhibitions

2022
Free play / II. National Salon of Fine Arts, Gallery

2016
Masters of Hungarian Graphics Almaty, Astana, National Museum (Kazakhstan) Budapest 

2008
Estampe Europeenne Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts 

2007
100 Graphics-100 Contemporary Artists, Hungarian University of Fine Arts 

2006
Exhibition with graphic artist Pierre Delvincourt at the Municipal Museum of Volvic, as part of the Chamalierre Graphic Triennale

1999
"Salon 1999″ Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris

1997
Hungarian Salon, Art Gallery

1996
Every year since 1996, Vásárhely Autumn Exhibition

1995
"Piranéző" Budapest Museum of Fine Arts

1994
Bologna International Illustrator Exhibition 

Press releases

2022
Országút 2022 May Kosinsky Richárd Fine Art online

2019
November 2019 Emese Révész Moving World

2018
March 2018 László Gárdonyi New Art

2007
May 2007, XVIII/5. No. János Sturcz Nouvelles de l'Estampe, July-September

2004
New Art

2002
February 2002

2001
Mogó World Vol. 27 No. 12 (December 2001) Graphics by Márton Takats, with an introduction by Imre Szemethy 

Prizes

2020
Three-year artistic scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Arts

2017
Award of the Foundation for Municipalities of Csongrád County at the Vásárhely Autumn Exhibition  

2010
Rome scholarship

2008
Koller fee 

2006
Miklós Galyasi award at the 2006 Vásárhely Autumn Exhibition 

2001
Orbis Pictus, prize of the city of Veszprém

1999
Chain Bridge Contest grand prize; "Salon 1999" Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris bronze medal

1998
1998 MAOE award at the Autumn Exhibition in Hódmezővásárhely

1993, 1995
Barcsay award