Laszló MÉHES

Early Life László Méhes is a French/Hungarian hyperrealist painter. He started his art studies in the Budapest Fine Arts High School under the wings of Balázs Viksy, and then he got admitted to the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, where he became the student of Aurél Bernáth. During the end of the 1960’s, he participated on the exhibitions of IPARTERV. His first exhibition in Paris was during the Biennale of young artists in 1971. He settled in France in 1979. He established a Fine Arts Private School called École des Languages de l’Art Plastique de Torcy in 1992, and then he received the grand award of the Salon de Maisons in 1995. About his Art He developed his lyrical, surrealistic style during his studies (Lacházi emlék, 1961), which led him to the surnaturalism - invented by Tibor Csernus (Szentendrei háztetők, 1964).Mehes experimented with new methods and he was influenced by the American pop art. He used to paint miniature pictures and he made collages and glass boxes of the remains of other paintings, minerals and tiny objects. He also used ephemeral materials like pasta, to create objects, which he exhibited on the Iparterv exhibition in 1968 (Lajoska, Lujza, Reflektor). He was fascinated by the conflicts of society and the theme of fire and water; therefore he started to make conceptual works and action photos during the beginnings of the 1970’s (Gyeptégla oázis, 1970; Három meditáció a legkisebb térre, 1972, Tűz-víz akció; Paragrafuslágyítás, 1971). He started to paint hyperrealist pictures since 1967. His series called Langyosvíz (Lukewarm Water) was a radical society criticism, while in France it was recognized alongside with the first American photo realists. He combined the hyperrealist perspectives with the transparency, the prints and the airbrush on his works where he represented female act torsos. Working in France he spreads this technique on his other still lifes and fills them with symbolic meanings (Elfelejtett paletta, 1981; Hommage pour les o Show more