Péter's work is bright and exciting. I love how he uses colour blocking and décollage, and how dissimilar these two techniques usually are. His technique of never being finished editing his collages is familiar with some of us, and I think some of the best collages can become even better with endless tinkering...
Name (Real or Screename): péter kupás
URL (Blog, Website): http://www.flickr.com/photos/happy-nasal-cavities/
Location (Where are you from?): Pécs, Hungary
Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: Illegal bordercrossing between abstraction and reality, structure and meaning, originality and plagiarism.
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Mostly found images from magazines and books, illustration, and leftovers from my own, or other peoples' work (like stickers, letters, shopping lists I find on the street, stuff I pick up from sidewalks).
Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: Since 2001. I was writing poetry back then, and on some pages of my notebook, I glued together random images, and I liked it so much that I started experimenting with it, and created my first piece.
Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I'm also a graphic designer and an English teacher.
Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: No.
Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: Getting out a dozen of images from my collection, arranging and rearranging until it looks good. From this point on, two things can happen. I either decide it doesn't look good anyway, cut it up, and use it somewhere else, or throw away the whole thing; or, add something more to it, rework it. half of my works are in a constant stae of flux, it is a sort of continuous re-evaluation.
Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: It's a very simple collage: a roughly cut photograph of an albino buck glued to the middle of a white photocopy paper.
Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: Basquiat for his wildness, Twombly for his calligraphy, Warhol for his ideas, Kippenberger for his attitude. And basically all artist who work with large installations like Jason Rhoades, Jessica Stockholder and Phoebe Wasburn, but this list is by no means complete; I also admire a lot of other people from a lot of other areas of art.
Thanks Peter!