ABOUT

I was born in 1965 in Miskolc, Hungary.
I have been making paintings and graphics since starting secondary school. I graduated from the Teacher Training Collage of Eger, in the faculty of Art.
I live in Eger and work as a teacher at Wigner Jenő Secondary School of Technics and Informatics.

My artworks can be seen in permanent exhibitions at the following places :
Hotel Szalajka Liget, Szilvásvárad, Hungary
Hotel Eger - Park, Eger, Hungary
Ormay Gallery, Szeged, Hungary
Oxford International Language School, Eger, Hungary
My paintings and etchings can be found at several points of the world e.g.: Canada, Czech Republic, England, Germany, Holland, USA.

Contact ( E-mail ) :zoltanducsai@gmail.com

About my artworks

The subject of my paintings and etchings has recently been an imaginary world of isles in the sea of fantasy and mythology.
These are my thoughts shaped into pictures with different approaches and various painting methods.
I work on different types of pictures at the same time; sometimes I feel like painting pictures with meticulous elaboration while at other times I prefer more dinamic, more liberal creation. These pictures will later on be sorted to the various galleries.

The series Isles collects the pictures which show buildings (mainly baroque, slim towers with playful, airy forms) and gates (in some cases dimension gates through which we can see into another space). These isles are in most cases tiny, one-man isles - the dwelling places of my dreams in another, timeless world.

The trees (and recently flowers too) are surreal formations: organic sea rocks and minerals growing around my isles in the sea.

The Titania set consists of surrealistic pictures: the dining table of the Titans (with the gigantic vessels left on it) that is flooded during the centuries, overgrown with trees and where boating people are contemplating...

The picutres of the Waterworld gallery are more unbound considering their composition and forms. When looking at them, you feel the weightlessness and floating of the underwater world.

In the Swirl pictures I play with colours without forms. Several of them can be associated with landscapes due to the surmising horizon.

In the Portrait pictures I experiment with forms floating and projected into one another.

Technological data

My smaller pictures are painted on fibreboard while the bigger ones on canvas, with oil, using my own ground colour. I apply the ground colour with a paint roller in several layers that provides a special, delicately rough orange-peel surface. I started to study material and painting technological issues after leaving college when looking for the oil technique methods best suiting me. One of the sources of my theoretical knowledge is "The Materials and Techniques of Painting" by Kurt Wehlte.

The etchings are made with aquatint process in some cases, etching done in 4 or 5 phases, mainly on brass plate.