Attila Szűcs is an Hungarian painter born in Miskolc, who currently lives and works in Budapest.

Since the early 90’s, Atilla Szűcs has been making traditional oil-canvas paintings. As a starting point, he often uses media images, newspaper cut-outs, postcards, film stills. When painting, the artist concentrates on such high-density moments when everyday experiences and viewing practices become obsolete while decoding. Atilla Szűcs creates empty spaces around the objects of thoughts and figures without defining them in a preconceived notion. It is the distance and the concentrated attention on absence that rules his relationship with painting. What he is most interested in is the search for interpretation of knowing and not-knowing, the way they are able to extinguish one another. Szűcs collects inspiration from the rubbish of collective memory, which he then reinterprets through the reality of painting. He attempts to dissolve the already defined and often false structures and introduce new types of looking in a peculiar formal and compositional levitation, where the paintings’ vacuum-like state partially originates in the loneliness of represented elements and partially from the transformation of metaphysical into universal.