Biography:

Budapest born artist Zoltán Krizsan (1981-) is best known for creating large scale layered oil paintings on wood and charcoal drawings, as well as architectural concept designs and glass works.

From 2000 to 2005 he studied painting at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. His MFA diploma work was a series of four monumental layered chiaroscuro paintings.

The Dean of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts called him the most powerful young master of Hungarian chiaroscuro since Tibor Csernus and Munkácsy.

Krizsán opened his first art studio in 2009 in a factory building located in Budapest. Although he has worked on a series of paintings in New York, he is mainly based in Budapest, working with charcoal and oil.

Between 2009 and 2019 he focused on transitioning his works with the fusion of traditional techniques and nihilist concepts in order to outline a new and expressive language.

In search to accept his own art, he went through basically three well identifiable phases from realistic chiaroscuro through surreal-deconstructive to OuterSpace-like tactile emptiness.

From 2020 to 2024 his works started to shape a free articulation allowing him to imitate reality and language without being verbally decodable or representing any traits of known realism.

He usually calls his works “Space Baroque” referring to his urge to create something cosmically distant from the common human experience but expressively picturesque and playful at the same time.

His newer open compositions trigger the viewer’s conscience to form their own version of the artwork as their subjective subconscious vision.

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