Molnár Levente
Biography
CREDO
Levente’s works open a window to a WORLD where we find ourselves communicating with our innermost selves left without reflection. His artistic drive summons the discourse of the self created by the transcendental powers of aesthetics way beyond figurative depicting.
Sculptor, creator and works are entities that cannot be cut off from each other. They are soul/sole together till the ideality goes out to start a new life through the spectator’s eyes. This figurality becomes the bridge between the creator and the acceptor. The artist: Pontifex making the figure alive by taking advantage of the materials and the composition of the elaborate pieces.
Art that is formed by free playfulness. Style that shows unbound shaping. Levente’s instinctive playfulness makes the hardly definable creator’s impulse exiled to the very depth of conscioussness complete and unfold. This way his art is getting mature, developing independently, reifying his artistic credo and life-loving.
His subject, on one hand, is human as the ultimate being. Yet, on the other, it is the one placed in social and cultural context. This fascinating mixture of reality and imagination is presented to us driving the attention to matters of existence through the artist’s rich association.
F.T.
EXHIBITIONS
2015 Voices made of steel, Bang & Olufsen, Vienna, Austria
2014 Diplomatic Fair, Hotel InterContinental Budapest
2014 Art Market, Millenáris, Budapest
2014 Dől a bálvány exhibition, Partizán Gallery, Budapest
2014 Exit joint exhibition with painter Msl, Dr Rose, Budapest
2014 Kempinski Art Soirée, Kempinski Hotel Corvinus, Budapest
2013 International Arts Festival, Shanghai
2013 Internal Games exhibition, Kempinski Hotel Corvinus, Budapest
2013 Kunst und Buch, Vienna
2013 Solo Show, Spirit Hotel, Sárvár
2013 Parallax Art Fair, London
2010 Skin-exhibition, IT Service Gallery, Debrecen
2010 Torsion – exhibition, Budapest
2010 Premier – exhibition Duna Gallery, Budapest
2008 Graduation exhibition
2006 One minute stillness ,Budapest-Epreskert, Kálvária
2006 Exhibition of MKE Students
2006 Art Expo, Szentendre
2006 Without Borders 2, Slovakia
2006 Barcsay exhibition, Budapest
2005 Collective exhibition, Temesvár
2005 Collective exhibition, Mátészalka
2004„ Redemption 2004” installation, Levente Molnár – Tamás Komlovszky – Szvet, Kossuth Cinema, Budapest
2003 Closing exhibition of Colony of Artist, Heves
MEMBERSHIPS
2009 MAOE membership – Fine Arts Section
STUDIES
2002-2008 Fine Arts University of Hungary, Sculptor speciality
Master: Pál Kő, Kossuth Prize winner sculptor (2003- 2008)
Zoltán Karmó sculptor (2002-2003)
1999-2001 Bokányi Dezső Ornamentalist Technical College, Stone sculptor speciality
Master: ENES Sándor Nagy
1997-1999 Ornamentalist and Building Industrial Technical College, Ceramist speciality
Master: Tamás Szarka
PRIZES
2008 AEGON Scholarship of Fine Arts
2007 First place of competition of MKE and Aegon Insurance Company
2006 Prize of MKE and SOTE Fine Arts Competition
2005 Barcsay Prize
STATUES AT PUBLIC PLACES
2010 Elisabeth, Pócspetri
2008 Saint Elisabeth from the House of Arpad, Ibrány
Water, Ibrány
2007 Portait of Kenéz, Kenézlő
In memoriam of the expelleds, Rátka
Portrait of Árkövy József, SOTE Budapest
2005 Way of the Cross – Gomboshegy, Hercegkút