Ákos Birkás

Ákos Birkás has been engaged with the genre of portrait and (self-)portrait since the beginning of his career. In the sixties, he tried to transcend the expected, realistic approach of the age with an existentially motivated, deeply experienced, personal portrait painting.

Ákos Birkás produced his large paintings systematically from the mid-1980s to the end of the 1990s featuring a single motive: an oval shape filling the canvas almost completely, an abstract “head”, the countless variations of which – and the associations connected to the universal form – allowed