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Jan Fekete
Biography
I grew up in a small village, so I spent my childhood and youth in the middle of the magical Slovak nature. That influenced me a lot and forever. Even now I don't need a template to paint a landscape, it just comes out of my head.
The time as an adult I lived in the big cities. My studies at the Academy in Bratislava, Vienna and Munich. The city landscape has shaped me in the same way.
I love the big city, the alleys and the people inside. Such motifs for painting are quite natural for me. Many of them don't have a template, they come from memory and my imagination.
I don't want to depict in detail or realistically what we can see with our eyes, but to demand the imagination and inner vision from the viewer. In my picture, everything is open, everything is just interpretation, it is like an introduction to develop the scenery itself and feel it according to one's own.
I see the world without contours, without closed forms and I try to convey exactly the same to the viewer.
In the years 1985-2021, I had 37 individual exhibitions, of which 19 were in Austria, 3 in Germany, 1 at the ISS Orbital Station and 14 in Slovakia.
I participated in more than 40 collective exhibitions in the USA, Japan, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Poland.
My works are in 8 public collections in Austria and Germany.
Education
1994-1996 Lecturer at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna MKL Visuelle Mediengestaltung Vienna, Austria
1996-1996 Habilitation and appointment as assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava Bratislava, Slovakia
1984-1990 University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Institute for Painting Vienna, Austria
1986-1990 Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, painting department Munich, Germany
1990-1990 Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich Munich, Germany
1980-1983 Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, Slovakia
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