Tamás | Szimpla caffe

“I’ve been painting and drawing intensely since I was two years old. Of course, I drew whiff doodles at the beginning, then the objects around me, cars, trams, then my family and soon sport became my favourite topic, I was interested in movement and how to illustrate it. Though my drawings were scratchy, it could be seen that they are kicking a ball or playing ice hockey. Then urban movement appeared, plus the buildings, different city objects and really, I have been drawing ever since.
Then one starts to make portraits, nudes, still lives, these were also important in Kisképző (art school), and nightlife, Ráday Street and the area where we are now became important in my life in that period. I took photos, I made sketches, dynamic drawings, shapes with bright colours.”
“What tools do you use?”
“I use pencil for the sketches, later watercolours and oil paint on canvas. I’m interested in the city very much, the movement, the night, the different forms of entertainment and how to show them. I painted waitresses, the interiors of cafés and ruin bars, I try to grab the moments that are important for me in this exciting world. I’m interested in the coffee house culture and its objects very much, what equipment, coffee machines can be found nowadays and what remained from the coffee house culture, of course. I came to this place, where we are now, first when I was a university student and I made sketches for a few of my sequences. This place inspired me much, and it helped me a lot to get to know this world and be a part of it.”
“What is the goal ahead of you?”
“At the beginning I was moved by how I see it from the street. How I can show it from the outsider’s point of view but now I would like to show it from the inside with pictures that makes you feel that the artist is part of this all. I would like to exhibit constantly at such places, it happened in Fuga also, where I and my artworks can get in touch with architecture. To take part in multi-arts events. I find it very good and inspiring that these places exist and even young people can sit down and talk to each other and a place and community can be created that is not possible anywhere else as there is no way to do that and maybe not even the need. It is another dimension, people still talk to each other here, not always burying themselves in their phones all the time. The diversity: foreign languages, writers, poets, creative people, they are growing and altering side by side.”