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Ferenc K. - A Friendship
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.
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Untitled (16.1SAA-M2)
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