Dániel

Horváth

REPRESENTED ARTISTS

Breathe again

2018

oil on canvas

110x140 cm

Blank III

Blank I.

2024

oil on canvas

70x100 cm

Dániel Horváth mixes traditional techniques with new materials and solutions. His painting programme is outlined by the keywords of reality and illusion.

Blank IV

Blank II.

2024

oil on canvas

70x100 cm

His analytical painterly language is about reality, representation and the intrigues that lurk between them.

Blank VI

Blank IV.

2024

oil on canvas

110x140 cm

His series entitled Blank, he cuts out parts from a photograph that depicted the painting. The remaining frame shows the painting's surroundings and becomes an interesting, abstract fragment in itself.

Blank VIII

Blank III.

Heart and Cherry Limited Editions, Budapest

2024

oil on canvas

130x110 cm

The painting shows the installation of an exhibition, the invisible painting is being placed on the wall by hands wearing white gloves. The presentation of the professional environment of painting as a system of motifs makes the compositions tautolog...ical, creating a spiral of meaning.READ MORE

Blank I.

Blank VI.

2024

oil on canvas

150x110 cm

these paintings are picture-in-picture solutions, conceptual trompl' oeil paintings, and narrative figurative compositions all at once.

Breathe again, 2018, 110x140, oil on canvas

Breathe again

2018

oil on canvas

110x140 cm

An anatomical approach to the human body in this painting that meditates on human life and passing in a magical way.



Dániel Horváth

1980

He is an assistant professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where he gained a degree in painting in 2006 and completed the doctoral programme in 2018. He is the member of the Studio Association of Young Artists since 2001. Since 2016 he is the curator of the Day of Hungarian Painting. From 2017 he is the Vice President of the Hungarian Painting Day Foundation and Participant of the Hungarian Patronage Programme since 2018.

He got the scholarship of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, the Béla Kondor Prize, the Herman Lipót Prize, he won the 2. prize of the Essl Art Award. Between 2008-2011 he was Derkovits scholar. He got the Eszterházy Award, the Maticska Jenő award, the Rome scholarship and NKA Creative Grant – Hungarian State Scholarship.

He lives and works in Budapest.