Background
Szentpétery was born in Rožňava, Czechoslovakia.
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Adam Szentpetery
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From 1971 to 1975 he studied at the School of Applied Arts in Košice (department of graphic arts). From 1976 to 1982, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava at the studio of monumental painting in the course taught by Associate
Career
He is known primarily for his abstract painting with strong geometrically organised canvases in a highly original manner with a very intense but at the same time refined colorism. Professor. Dezider Castiglione and Associate Professor. Ivan Vychlopen. Since 1999 he is the head of the Studio of Contemporary Image at the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University in Košice (since 2004 – associate professor).
Nowadays Szentpétery lives and works in Rožňava and Košice.
Work " When characterizing the works of the prominent Slovak painter Ádám Szentpétery (born in 1956), from the very start it is necessary to emphasize that we shall communicate in the visual language of geometry with strong painting coding. The line, colour and surface are the primary building blocks of his picture system.
Although in the course of decades Szentpétery has built a key monolithic painting programme in the field of geometric abstraction forming a unique contribution to the contemporary language of painting in Slovakia, it still remains a solitary phenomenon in the home environment." Vladimír Beskid Exhibitions The complete list of solo and group exhibitions is available in Adam Szentpétery"s catalogue.
