Ghyczy was born in Diepholz, Germany in 1970 and would go on to study in Amsterdam, Brussels and Budapest. Known for his painterly compositions fragmented in a state of serenity and meditation, Dénesh Ghyczy dovetails abstraction and representation through his body of work. His paintings break down a single perspective into a montage of the present, bringing the viewer’s awareness to his perception of time and space.

The realistic elements of his compositions appear frozen in time. Ghyczy confidently juxtaposes iconographic imagery against abstracted seismographic brushstrokes capturing how time does not, in fact, stand still, and rather ceaselessly pushes forward.

“In much of my work, solitary figures placed in undefined painterly spaces seem to have a readiness to let go and disperse into the immediate surrounding, loosening and becoming part at the same time. As paintings, these works investigate the boundaries of the body as a mass and an outline. The abstract background that is often composed with loose paint strokes, reminiscent of seismographical recordings, interacts with the figures, somewhat carrying or holding them. It is this in-between state of letting go until the arrival into the unknown that interests me. Dispersing and disappearing even, and having faith in oneself, stretched into eternity.” —Dénesh Ghyczy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Education