Artwork of the week - Péter Hecker: Dodo

The vision of the dachshound, floating among the clouds, is not alien in the line of Péter Hecker’s paintings. Among the bright-coloured, cleared forms, every line and speckle carry some significance, and the abstract world on the paintings is familiar and strange at the same time. Besides the obvious humor and the creator’s playfulness, Hecker’s pictures also feature peculiar symbols, personal experience and self-reflection. kArton exhibited his paintings two times in 2001 and 2003.

Péter Hecker (1963, Budapest)

1990-96: Gesamthochschule, Kassel (viual communication, graphic design, photo, liberal arts courses)

1994-95: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, intermedia course, examural student

from 1996: member of Fiatal Képzőművészek Stúdiója and Magyar Alkotóművészek Országos Egyesülete

2000: Painting Prize of Magyar Aszfalt (2nd prize)

/Komornik Eszter/