Istvan Peto cultivates painting like a garden. Shapes of botanical appearance invade fallow plots. Istvan Peto's painting is never where you expect it to be. The delicacy and subtlety of nuanced yellows are sometimes rooted in greys, while elsewhere the flaming cry of an orange-red saturates the eye. The plots are added one to another, and juxtaposed. The sensation of the fragmentary is required, simulating the apparent discontinuity of plant growth. Yet the composition intuitively organized, meets the principle of necessity. With the demanding practice of engraving and the scholar mix of its techniques, he cultivates this discipline as a gardener, slaved to the discontinuous time of seasons. Istvan PETO masters the invasive fertility of its indoor garden, sometimes gently, by a delicate plot, almost slender of an evanescent flower, sometimes with the violence of a black graffity, thick and bushy . Between disparates and paradoxes, each work gains its internal coherence and invites us in a stroll where our eyes, still amazed, will preserve the freshness of the first emotion.
Painter and engraver. Born 1 September 1955 in Hungary
Lives and works in Saint Denis (France 93) since 1984
Education: Workshop Lenkey, School of Decorative Arts in Budapest
Recent exhibitions
2010 - Artogue Gallery, Clermont-Ferrand - BBV Galerie, Paris
2011 - BBV Galerie, Paris
2012 - Art Brussels - Gery Art Gallery, Namur
2014 - Galerie Atelier des Marches, Paris
2015 - Bonnet gallery- Dufay Bonnet, Paris - Malebranche Gallery, Paris
2016 - Galerie ART aujourd'hui, Paris "Abstraction" (May), "Minimenta" (June).
Paintings and engravings permanently visible at the gallery since may 20016