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László Fehér
Narodený(á) 17. březen 1953, SzékesfehérvárLived in Budapest
Lived in Tác (3)
László Fehér is a Hungarian painter and visual artist, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, and a recipient of many research fellowships abroad (including Rome). He is a representative of hyperrealistic painting whose attributes he has modified to include current topics: reflection on social themes, Jewishness etc. In 1990 he participated in the Venice Biennale. Eighteen years later the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna arranged a retrospective exhibition of his work. He is a winner of a number of awards and was appointed the ambassador of Hungarian culture in 2007.
painting, photorealism
1971
László Fehér attended Magyar Képzőművészeti Főiskola/ The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts between 1971 and 1976. In the middle of the decade he started focusing more systematically on provocative photorealistic painting, adding a specific social and critical accent. His series of paintings called Brigade Records (1975) reflected the debility and emptiness of an ID photo. He proceeded in the same way in his works titled Aluljáró I/ Underpass I (1975), Földalatti/ Underground Railway (1976), and Aluljáró II/ Underpass II (1978), respectively, which represened a formally perfect depiction of the triviality of everyday life, the gloominess that was so typical for the second half of that decade.
Studied at Hungarian University of Fine Arts
1977
The formal representation and the topics of Fehér's canvases evoked photographic moments. They were specific due to the atypical cut-outs and shifts in perspective, with the domination of black and white, although some of them copied the radiant chromaticity of ORWO photographic film. In fact, they were an alternative to the family photograph style of the 1960's (Életkép/ Genre, 1979).
[László Fehér] (solo exhibition, Kincsesbánya)
1978
Received grant from Derkovits art scholarship
1979
[László Fehér] (solo exhibition, Székesfehérvár)
1980
The series of paintings with Jewish topics was a certain parallel to the family photographs, a reflection of Fehér's personal affiliation. In 1980, Fehér worked on a canvas titled LT/ Diptichon/ LT/ Diptych (1980), a highly contrasting photorealistic painting in a black and blue contrast, depicting a man of Jewish origin, a Jewish flag and a detail of an inscription in Hebrew. Diaszpóra/ Diaspora, the last of his black-and-white paintings in the photorealistic style, originated in 1982
1982
Received award from Studio of Young Artists’ Association
1983
Between 1983 and 1985, Fehér also dealt with stylized landscape painting. For a certain time he more or less gave up photographic concreteness, reducing his palette to the combination of red, black, white and ochre. This reduction abated in the mid decade
[László Fehér] (solo exhibition, Budapest)
1986
In 1986, Fehér won a scholarships and stayed in Rome. The change of environment was manifest in the increased chromaticity of the palette and canvas monumentalization (Róma/ Rome, 1986
The Italian scene with angel (painting)
Received grant from Hungarian Academy in Rome
[László Fehér] (solo exhibition, Székesfehérvár)
1987
Received award from International Festival of Painting Cagnes-sur-Mer
19th International Festival of Painting Cagnes-sur-Mer (group exhibition, Cagnes-sur-Mer)
Nová maďarská malba: Fehér, Kelemen, Koncz, Mulasics, Nádler, Soös, Szabados, Szirtes (group exhibition, Brno)
Nová maďarská malba: Fehér, Kelemen, Koncz, Mulasics, Nádler, Soös, Szabados, Szirtes (group exhibition, Brno)
1988
His return from Italy resulted in quite a dramatic reduction of chromaticity. Fehér restricted the range to the triad of basic colours, yellow, black and white. While yellow typically forms the background, black is used for the architectonic and – together with white – also the figural staffage. Fehér's process gradually became strictly codified, it was used in almost realistic variants Presszó (Café, 1988) and Este 1953-ban (Evening in 1953, 1988), as well as in canvases from 1990 and 1991, tending more and more markedly to transcendence (Testvérek/ Brothers, 1990
1989
In 1990, László Fehér participated in the Venice Biennnale, where he presented this current collection (Emlékműnél/ Memorial, 1989
Dialógus II. [Franz Pichlerrel] (solo exhibition, Budapest)
1990
XLIV. Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia (group exhibition, Venezia)
Signs in Motion (group exhibition, Prague)
Signs in Motion (group exhibition, Prague)
1991
At the beginning of the 1990's, Fehér returned to a black-and-white palette, also using a range of grey and silver. He also revised the original photographic approach
1993
Received award from The Munkácsy Mihály Prize
1995
In mid 1990's, Fehér engaged in making portraits of artists, friends, famous personalities (Gabor Bachman, 1995
New Objects - On László Fehér's Paintings (solo exhibition, Budapest)
1996
Mítosz, Memória, História (group exhibition, Budapest)
1997
At the end of the 1990's, the dramatic feature of Fehér's palette attenuated, one of the manifestations of this was his preference for a soothing combination of blue and grey tones. His canvases became populated with more figures (Réten/ Meadow, 1997
1998
1999
Aspects / Positions. 50 Years of Art in Central Europe 1949-1999 (group exhibition, Vienna)
2000
Received award from Kossuth Prize
László Fehér (solo exhibition, Budapest)
Millennial serie of exhibitions in the Mucsarnok (group exhibition, Budapest)
Art in Central Europe 1949–1999 (group exhibition, Barcelona)
Millennial serie of exhibitions in the Mucsarnok (group exhibition, Budapest)
Art in Central Europe 1949–1999 (group exhibition, Barcelona)
2001
László Fehér (solo exhibition, Budapest)
László Fehér (solo exhibition, Budapest)
Idohid / Zeitbrücke. Ungarische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung der Gemäldegalerie Budapest (group exhibition, Passau)
László Fehér (solo exhibition, Budapest)
Idohid / Zeitbrücke. Ungarische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung der Gemäldegalerie Budapest (group exhibition, Passau)
2002
Situation Ungarn - Kunst vor und nach der Wende (group exhibition, Berlin)
Re-Conciliations (group exhibition, Budapest)
Re-Conciliations (group exhibition, Budapest)
2003
2004
László Fehér (solo exhibition, Budapest)
Passage d´Europe (group exhibition, Saint-Étienne)
technoreál (group exhibition, Dunaújváros)
Passage d´Europe (group exhibition, Saint-Étienne)
technoreál (group exhibition, Dunaújváros)
2005
Europe in Art (group exhibition, Prague)
Laszlo Feher – A Selection (solo exhibition, Budapest)
Works on the Edge A New Selection of the Collection of the Ludwig Múzeum I. (group exhibition, Budapest)
Laszlo Feher – A Selection (solo exhibition, Budapest)
Works on the Edge A New Selection of the Collection of the Ludwig Múzeum I. (group exhibition, Budapest)
2006
Landscape - Dichotomy (group exhibition, Budapest)
Ninety-Nine Years. The Antal-Lusztig Collection in the Modem (group exhibition, Debrecen)
Ninety-Nine Years. The Antal-Lusztig Collection in the Modem (group exhibition, Debrecen)
2007
Retrospective exhibition of László Fehér (solo exhibition, Budapest)
Body language - Antal-Lusztig collection II. (group exhibition, Debrecen)
Hungarian Art (group exhibition, Bratislava)
Body language - Antal-Lusztig collection II. (group exhibition, Debrecen)
Hungarian Art (group exhibition, Bratislava)
2009
Ungarische Kunst der 1970er bis 1990er Jahre aus der Sammlung der Neuen Galerie Graz (group exhibition, Graz)
The Art of Tolerance (group exhibition, Bratislava)
Hommage á El Kazovszkij (group exhibition, Budapest)
A kép képe (group exhibition, Budapest)
arc, pofa, ábrázat (group exhibition, Budapest)
The Art of Tolerance (group exhibition, Bratislava)
Hommage á El Kazovszkij (group exhibition, Budapest)
A kép képe (group exhibition, Budapest)
arc, pofa, ábrázat (group exhibition, Budapest)
2010
ON PAPER (group exhibition, Budapest)
Olomouc Central European Forum III. Hungary | Hungarian Art from the Collections of the Olomouc Museum of Art (group exhibition, Olomouc)
Unmistakable Sentences. The Collection Revisited (group exhibition, Budapest)
Olomouc Central European Forum III. Hungary | Hungarian Art from the Collections of the Olomouc Museum of Art (group exhibition, Olomouc)
Unmistakable Sentences. The Collection Revisited (group exhibition, Budapest)
2011
Cities on the River: Identity in Central Europe (group exhibition, Bratislava)
30 éves a Fészek Galéria – Születésnapi kiállítás I (group exhibition, Budapest)
Művek vízre – tervek, modellek (group exhibition, Budapest)
Laszlo Feher (solo exhibition, Saint-Étienne)
East of Eden - Photorealism: Versions of Reality (group exhibition, Budapest)
Hungarian Bath Life - a selection from the Völgyi - Skonda Collection (group exhibition, Debrecen)
30 éves a Fészek Galéria – Születésnapi kiállítás I (group exhibition, Budapest)
Művek vízre – tervek, modellek (group exhibition, Budapest)
Laszlo Feher (solo exhibition, Saint-Étienne)
East of Eden - Photorealism: Versions of Reality (group exhibition, Budapest)
Hungarian Bath Life - a selection from the Völgyi - Skonda Collection (group exhibition, Debrecen)
2012
Faces (group exhibition, Budapest)
Reloaded - A Selection From The Collections Of The Kovács Gábor Art Foundation (group exhibition, Budapest)
What Is Hungarian? (group exhibition, Budapest)
From Tizian to Warhol / Olomouc Museum of Art 1951-2011 (group exhibition, Olomouc)
Reloaded - A Selection From The Collections Of The Kovács Gábor Art Foundation (group exhibition, Budapest)
What Is Hungarian? (group exhibition, Budapest)
From Tizian to Warhol / Olomouc Museum of Art 1951-2011 (group exhibition, Olomouc)
2013
Focus Ungarn 1988 – 2013 (group exhibition, Kitzbühel)
Through A Glass Darkly - Faces Past And Present (group exhibition, Budapest)
Century of Relativity. Permanent Exhibition of 20th Century Fine Arts (group exhibition, Olomouc)
Through A Glass Darkly - Faces Past And Present (group exhibition, Budapest)
Century of Relativity. Permanent Exhibition of 20th Century Fine Arts (group exhibition, Olomouc)
2015
Siliconvalse. Hungarian Reality (group exhibition, Brno)
2016
LÁSZLÓ FEHÉR│Works on paper (solo exhibition, Budapest)