Ferenc Balint
Masks
These vibrant and colorful masks are combining ancient relief carvings with street art, paying a tribute to Inca, Maya and Polinesian masks with a cartoony edge. They are acrylic and permanent marker works on recycled cardboard.
Large canvases
The world of Balint's large acrylic paintings evolves from the turbulence of his earlier, abstract works, zooming in their structure and opening up towards a more expressive imagery. These works display influences of pop-surrealism, lowbrow and street art, with references to Old Masters and contemporary ideologies.
Abstracts
This series of abstract oil paintings collect the artist's works form the ineties to the first few years of the 00's. Mostly inspired by abstract expressionism, poetry and the violent brushworks of Chaim Soutine, Balint experimented with deepening, immersive spaces and overflowing compositions.
Crayons
This collection of crayon drawings is a selection of imaginary portraits of family members, friends, people from the streets, famous artists and pop-icons. They capture the intimate and playful spirit of drawing together with his small daughters during his stay-at-home-dad-period around the 2010's.
Drawings
Drawing means way more then simply sketching drafts for painting. Doodling on the side of notebooks in school, being penalised in class for drawing the map of all countries on checkered sheets, and remaining a doodler even as a maths student at university paved a way for drawing as a first language for the artist. Later his indie T-shirt brand Gruzzwe-Tees have captured many fans with their cute monstery world.
