Péter Donáth (1938-1996)

Visual artist, stage designer. Donáth’s activity as a visual artist was focused on the problem of the image surface and its possible materials and compositions. He started working with graphic techniques in the ’50s, then in the ’60s and ’70s he switched to relief images, which he created by embedding various objects in putty and gypsum mass and frame. Most of his works are monochrome from the late 1960s, when he created his Blue- (1969) Gray- (1970-71) and Yellow-series (1971-73). From 1969, he designed sets and costumes for Péter Halász’s theatre, and in 1973 he quit his artistic practice and got involved mainly in filming, then from 1977 he worked as a stage designer at the Gergely Csiky Theater in Kaposvár. He returned to fine art in the beginning of the ’90s, continuing his artistic program in the ITIA-series, exhibitioned at Óbudai Társaskör.