Tamás Hencze

(1938, Szekszárd - 2018, Budapest)

About the Artist
Tamás Hencze is a classic of the Hungarian neo-avantgard, who was born in 1938. He received numerous awards, among them the most prestigious Hungarian honor, the Kossuth Prize. He exhibited with IPARTERV, an important group of young Hungarian avant-garde artists in the 1960’s. At the beginning of his career, he travelled to Paris and was greatly influenced by the abstract tradition, op-art like grids and re- and disappearing shapes ruled his canvases. During the 1970’s, his work became more conceptual, he did performances, silk-screen and land art works, and also created his influential burnt canvases. He later returned to painting, and as his titles refer to it, he focused on painting space itself, on the illusion of showing substance through delicately smooth tone-changes. Hencze often paints series, his most often used colors are variations of black, white, blue, yellow and red. From larger gestures he arrived to softer, calligraphy like forms in the 1980’s, employing less color combinations. Beautiful signs, writing-like constructions ruled his canvases, all arranged in a peculiar perspective. In the 2000’s Hencze turned back to rather immense gestures, vibrant structures, damaged edges and ragged motifs characterize his last several series. He yet wants to prove the harmony of spontaneity and reason, as he freezes the accidental paint drops into the language of calligraphy, into the of language eternity.
Tamás Hencze’s paintings are in the most important local and international, private and public collections.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
Shaping Realities with Márton Nemes, Deák Erika Galéria, Budapest
Works from the 1990s, Neon Gallery, Budapest

2015
Parallel lights, Art. Salon: Társalgó Gallery, Budapest
Shaped pictures from the early ‘80s, Neon Gallery, Budapest

2013
Organic gestures, Biksady Gallery, Budapest

2012
Günter Damsich, Hencze Tamás, Österrechisch Kulturforum, Budapest

2011
Found pictures, Neon Gallery, Budapest

2010     
Vertical light, Prestige Gallery, Budapest

2008     
BTM - Kiscelli Museum, Gallery of Budapest, Budapest

2004     
KOGART House, Budapest

2002     
Somogyi József Gallery, Pápa
Licht und Farbe, Hungarian Embassy, Berlin
Tamás Hencze, Kulturinstitut der Republik Ungarn, Stuttgart

2001     
Vadnai Gallery, Budapest

1998     
Kaposfüredi Gallery and Sculpture park, Kaposfüred   
  
1997     
Oil/Canvas. Contemporary Hungarian Art, Műcsarnok/Palace of Art, Budapest

1996     
Rátz Gallery, Budapest

1994     
Körmendi Gallery, Budapest
Gallery MM, Tokio

1993     
Galerie Gaudens Pedit, Innsbruck
Gallery MM, Tokio

1992     
Galerie Synthese, Linz

1990     
Galerie Bawag Foundation, Wien
Positionen VII. (Wien-Budapest), Fészek Gallery, Budapest

1988     
Galerie Eremitage, Berlin
Gallery MM, Tokio

1987     
Ernst Museum, Budapest

1984     
Plaster and paint, Fészek Gallery, Budapest

1981     
Dorottya street exhibition space, Budapest

1980     
Burnt Pictures, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Exposition Internationale des Arts Plastiques, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1979     
Black-white-red, French Institute, Budapest

1977     
Visual stories, Józsefvárosi Gallery, Budapest
King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár

1970     
Structures, County Library, Veszprém

1969     
Central Institute of Physics Research, Budapest

1968   
University of Technology, Vásárhelyi Pál College, Budapest
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019     
Harmonia Structuralis, Art Gallery Paks, Paks, Hungary

2017     
Shaping Realities, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest

2016     
Standing before objects, Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest

2013     
Divine formula, light, Kepes Institute, Budapest

2012     
Loop, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest

2010     
Time, accelerating, Prestige Gallery, Budapest

2009     
Hommage á El Kazovszkij, XO, Budapest

2008     
Egress and magnetism, Centrális Gallery, Budapest

2006     
Real and virtual spaces II., Vasarely Museum, Budapest

2004     
Hungarian Geometry Today, Galerie Mesta, Plzne
Passage d’Europe, Musée(s) Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne

2003     
Vass László Collection, Modern Gallery, Veszprém

2001   
New mechanism, MEO Contemporary Gallery, Budapest

1998     
Avant-garde in the 20th century, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz
The first generation of the Hungarian neoavantgard, 1965-1972, Szombathelyi Gallery, Szombathely
Hungarian Presence 1998, Zachenta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsav

1997     
Oil/Canvas, Contemporary Hungarian Painting, Műcsarnok/Palace of Art, Budapest

1996     
My museum (Vass-collection), Ernst Museum, Budapest

1993     
Hungarian art of the 20th century (1980-1989), King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár
Konfrontationen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien
Hungary Before and After, Washington, New York, Budapest

1992     
Reductivism, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien
Hungaricae, Arte Ungherese degli anni ’80 e sue origini, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano

1991     
The Sixties, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Pozitionen, Ungarische Kunst der Neuziger Jahre, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich
Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Art Cologne, 25. Internationaler Kunstmarkt, Cologne
Hungarian Modern Art, Seoul Arts Center, Art Museum, Seoul

1990     
Movement 1970-1990, Modern Gallery, Pécs
Metaphor, Modern Gallery, Pécs

1988     
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

1985     
Drei Generationen Ungarischer Künstler, Neue Galerie, Graz
Snapshot (Three Generations of Hungarian Painters), Műcsarnok/Palace of Art, Budapest

1984     
Wet paint, Ernst Museum, Budapest

1982     
Black-and-White, Műcsarnok/Palace of Art, Budapest
Art Hongrois Contemporain, Musée Cantini, Marseille

1981     
Ungesk Konst 1905-1980, Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm; Konstmuseum, Göteborg; Konsthall, Malmö

1980     
Iparterv 68-80, Iparterv, Budapest
XXXIX. Biennale de Venezia, Padiglione Ungherese, Venice

1978     
Józsefváros Gallery, Budapest
Painting ’77, Műcsarnok/Palace of Art, Budapest
Tendencies in contemporary Hungarian painting, Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest
Hongaarse Konstruktivistische Kunst 1920-1977, Hertogenbosch, Utrecht, Arnheim
Ungarische Konstruktivistische Kunst 1920-1977, Kunstverein, Munich, Düsseldorf

1976     
Serial works, Csók István Gallery, Székesfehérvár

1975    
New Hungarian constructivism, Kunstmuseum, Bonn

1972     
Art System, Buenos Aires

1971     
New Works, Műcsarnok/Palace of Art, Budapest

1970     
Movement ’70, Modern Gallery, Pécs
„R” (New Hungarian avant-garde), University of Technology and Economics, Budapest
Amerika Haus Galerie, Wien
II. Internationalen Malerwochen im Burgenlan, Eisenstadt
Wystawa Grupy Aristow wegierskych, Poznan

1969     
Pannonia Biennal 1969, Murska Sobota (Yugoslavia)

1968     
II. Iparterv exhibition, Iparterv, Budapest

1966     
Zuglói Circle, Ady Endre Cultural House of the 4th District, Budapest
 
Works in Collection
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, Budapest
Kassák Lajos Múzeum, Budapest
Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscsaba
Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum/ Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest
Kiscelli Múzeum, Budapest
Artaria Alapítvány, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
BNP-Dresden Bank, Budapest
Modern Magyar Képtár, Pécs
Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár
Szombathelyi Képtár, Szombathely
Sárospataki Képtár, Sárospatak
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Bécs
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Bécs
Neue Galerie am LandesMúzeum Joanneum, Graz
Folkwang Museum, Essen
National Museum of Contemporaray Art, Seoul
Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen
Muzeum Okregowe, Chelm
Vass László Gyűjtemény, Veszprém, Budapest
Lentos, Kunstmuseum, Linz
MEO, Kortárs Művészeti Gyűjtemény, Budapest
Raiffeisen Gyűjtemény, Budapest



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