József Burkus
He was born in 1957 in Bükkszentlászló. During his high school years, inspired by Dr. Lajos Végvári, he participated several times in the Zebegény artists' colony. He graduated from the Nyíregyháza College of Art, majoring in drawing.
In the early 1990s, he established connections with Switzerland through his painting. In 1995, he went to the USA, where he achieved significant success. In 2000, he became a member of the Hungarian Association of Fine Artists.
His attraction to hyperrealism became evident early on, as he consciously worked to make his paintings visually deceptive, turning real elements into art with illusionistic solutions. He is capable of meeting the requirements of representational art, but also able to transcend into the realm of abstraction. His compositions come from such a deep, internal place that they are often rationally incomprehensible.
Tibor Gyurkovics wrote, in relation to a significant exhibition: "He places cracks on the canvas as time places wrinkles on the human face."
His depictions of women, sometimes based on real individuals, other times serving as symbols, are often present as attributes in his works. His evolving artistic world has been significantly influenced by his travels. The light experiences he had in Florida resulted in the increasing prominence of gold in his recent works, and the power and brutality of tornadoes also appear in some of his paintings.
He has succeeded in creating a unique artistic identity that reflects his individuality, where both visual approach and technique follow a personal path. His organic, root-based abstract conception, his ideals and visions rising into the universe, his dreams and connections, his strong desire for freedom, his new ideals of beauty, respect for traditions, his transcendence and groundedness, the preservation of both idea and nature by his hand, all contribute to elevating his painting into a phenomenon.
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