Ferenc Lantos Creations of nature

Ferenc Lantos was one of the most important artists of geometric abstraction in the Central European region.

As a student of Ferenc Martyn, a member of the Abstraction-Création, he tapped into contemporary Parisian abstract trends in 1940s Hungary and developed his own geometric language based on the aforementioned international approach. Because of this peculiar situation and his talent, despite the isolation created by socialism, his art progressed in parallel with international practice, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.

With his enamel artworks and experiments with land art, as well as his theoretical concepts, Lantos is regarded worldwide as a unique, original visual thinker.

He depicted the entire workings of nature not by a turn to abstraction, but along the lines of a concept built from geometric elements. However, he cannot be classified as a traditional geometric-concrete artist, as he never excluded the natural basis.

In his works, he explored the creation of nature by geometrizing the pattern of forms found in nature and created an analytical visual language based on the micro-macrosystem of the world, placing the shape of the circle as the basic schema. Lantos applied this visual method in a wide technical range, for example in painting, enamel, printmaking and others.

In particular, Lantos dealt with the theme of water, including the motif of waves or the difference between the “seen and experienced” coastal landscape, which is the main subject of the exhibition and an exciting reflection on the space and concept of Danubiana.

The show includes paintings, drawings, enamels (land art and architectural exterior designs) from the extensive Lantos collection of the Zsdrál Art Gallery, curated by Flóra Mészáros, an expert on Lantos and international abstraction.

Biography

Ferenc LANTOS was born in Pécs in 1929 and died in Balatonberény, Hungary in 2014. Lantos studied painting at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, he also became a painting teacher and a biology teacher, and later earned a DLA degree. Although he had several master teachers, he considered Ferenc Martyn, who was a renowned avant-garde artist, to be his master teacher. Lantos worked mainly as an art teacher in Pécs, meanwhile he supported new abstract formations, e.g. he founded the Pécs Workshop (1969). In the 1990s, he was the head of the Department of Painting at the University of Pécs, and together with his wife, pianist Maria Apagyi, he founded the Martyn Ferenc School of Liberal Arts, which to this day follows their Bauhaus-inspired educational method built on the relationship between nature, music, and the visual arts.

Exhibitor:  Zsdrál-Art
Curator: Flóra Mészáros

Location:

Danubiana, Čunovo, Slovakia

Date: from 06.09.2024 – 20.10.2024

Opening hours:

Monday – closed
Tuesday – Sunday
from 10:00 – 18:00

Admission:

Adults – €10
Family (2 adults and 2 students) – 20 €
Pensioners (over 62 years old) – 5 €
Students – 5 €
Children (under 6 years old) – Free
Danubiana Club Members – Free
Disabled persons, persons over 75 years of age – Free

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