Sfântu Gheorghe (Transylvania) based painter and sculptor László Vinczeffy (born in 1946) is a Regular Member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. As a result of the drawing education he received in Zagon, which was characterised by a more direct method of teaching art, his early works feature a narrative that not only transforms reality but also presents a surrealistic approach to the themes addressed. As a conservator and restorer, he is entirely familiar with the behaviour of different materials and techniques that masters of long-gone ages used to apply. Relying on his experimental interests, he uses these materials and techniques quite effectively on the almost ‘touchable’ surfaces he has developed and which he presents in his formal-plastic style. These paintings and graphics represent and visualise spiritual symbols and fairytale-like playfulness. Later on the artist, however, was not content with the constraints associated with his two-dimension wood panels, and for this reason he created sculptural objects and produced untreated and hardly-worked wooden stumps, organic space plastics, and diverse colourful decorative forms reminiscent of pictures, which seem to present a counterpoint to visual images. The larger varieties of these artworks are showcased in the scope of a permanent exhibition installed in the artist’s native village called Atia. In addition, Hungarian and Transylvanian fine artists are also invited to this village every summer to exhibit their artworks in Kakasülő Gallery opened in 2014.

György Szücs 

Curator 

Organiser: Hungarian Academy of Arts’ Section of Fine Arts