Wächter Dénes

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An exhibition resurrected from the original WordPress archive of the Godot Gallery.

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Wächter Dénes: The Gordian Knot, the circle at its centre regular.

40 × 30, oil, canvas, 2014

The Godot Gallery cordially invites you.

Denes Wächter

for its exhibition, where we display the works the artist has painted over the past three years.

Opening: on 2016 February 3 at 19

Opening: Dr Endré Tálos, linguist

Available until February 27, from Tuesday to Friday between 9 and 14, and on Saturday between 10 and 13.

In a larger size

Wächter Dénes: Sittin' Pretty

40 × 45, oil, canvas, 2015

Sára Bárdi, art‑history student:

"Wächter Dénes (1966, Budapest) studied at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts, where he was mentored by the painter Gerzson Pál (1990). Rather than denying the Cézannist line of sight, he creates from it. He regards the resulting artworks as an equal part of our present world, even using them as a seat, in whatever way. Drawing on his childhood full of high‑profile artistic memories, he collides and weaves together the visual scraps of various ages on his canvases. A mental and physical layering is evident in every single moment of his work. We are forced to understand the accommodation as a kind of associative game. The game is noteworthy, as are his images, which could also stand as psychological self‑portraits. The humour and irony he represents are just as important, if not more so."

He quickly discovered the personal voice he still uses today, a distinctive eclectic style in which classical art appears alongside pop art, the new realist's decollage technique, op‑art illusion, and pattern painting all at once.

It is not believed to be part of art history as a distinct historical narrative and perhaps that is why it does not preserve or emulate the works that appear in his paintings, which seem to have been beautifully and technically painted foundation layers.

In the painting titled 2013‑As Collored Shoe‑Wives, a baroque picnic is shattered by a seemingly non‑figurative “net”, and with lifelike reproductions of past advertisements and postcards it clarifies the title for us.

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Wächter Dénes: Scattered Shoe‑heads

65 x 50, oil, canvas, 2013

In the realm of Rajzo’s motif, and on the “networks” (often borrowing from classic artistic media: mosaic, lead‑stained glass, Arabic floor motifs, etc.), another striking element is the frequent use of pin‑up girls as symbols of childhood sexuality, the women cast into the trade.

Through their work we are given the chance to immerse ourselves in colours and forms, like a disintegrating, sometimes sparkling chaos, but when we stop and visually re‑assemble the picture we must realise that thought layers over material culture, and the historical spectacle itself becomes a distinctive interpretation of existence.

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Wächter Dénes: Summer

(40 x 30), oil, canvas, 2014

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