Peter Horvath is a Canadian multimedia and collage artist, whose unique collages manipulate and rework imagery from popular culture. Horvath’s digital collage work references both fine art and mass media. For example, his series ‘Lines and Vectors’ is inspired by Alexander Calder’s famous mobile sculptures, but Horvath juxtaposes these lines and vectors with images from 20th century advertising to create…
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Can you tell us a bit about yourself? I am a Berlin-based artist, born in St. Petersburg, Russia. I finished both, my bachelor and master studies in Fine Arts, at the UdK (University for Arts in Berlin). I studied under Georg Baselitz and Daniel Richter. I’ve been exhibiting since 2002 all over Europe, in the USA, and in Russia. Why…
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What is your artistic singularity? Light and vision have been important themes running through my work for almost two decades. I push my paintings to the limits of visibility in order to get people to see something in a whole new way. For instance, I made a series of white on white paintings that would appear under ultraviolet lights. Later,…
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Can you tell us a bit about you? I lived for many years in the southernmost county of New Jersey, a largely rural, flat, coastal area that is almost 60% water and home to the City of Cape May, the country’s oldest seaside resort. I have always been drawn to the peculiar seasonal pulse of the coast, which varies daily…
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How did you find your voice as an artist? As a child I loved drawing and creating things so I have always had an artistic voice of sorts. I left my job in media when I was 40, took a year off, did up my London flat and went to art college. After that I gradually built up a body…
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You worked many years as a classical music composer. How did you come to art? I have always been drawing. Before I started studying music at university I felt torn between following studies in fine art or music composition. Whilst working on my doctorate I became increasingly aware of how the music I was writing was a visual thing in…
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How did you come to art? Getting into the world of art came to me as a natural progression from a very young age. I always loved to sketch, draw and sculpt. This later led me through the labyrinths of variety of artistic expressions before I started to settle down into what is characterizing my art today. Your work combines…
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How did you find your voice as an artist? Ironically, it was when I was doing my first degree and I was struggling with ideas for a project. I decided to illustrate,in a very literal way, my empty head being devoid of ideas. This led to the first in a long series of etchings that all featured heads with holes…
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You say that our relationship with nature changed – how did it change? One hundred years ago our relationship with nature was something different from three hundred years ago or from what is today. In fact nature it is not something defined, whereas it is a cultural concept and as such it changes with time. Nowadays we perceive nature often…
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How would you describe your photographic and artistic singularity? I find this question quite difficult to answer. It’s not really for me to say. I can say that ultimately I’m interested in intimacy and relationships. Love is a trigger. I don’t like to control or set up photographs, I prefer to discover. I like to look for things not necessarily…
