Sugár Gábor (1976, Budapest)

Gábor Sugár was born in Budapest in 1976. Even as a small child, he was drawn to drawing and the artistic path, but his life circumstances strongly hindered his development in this direction. He owes a lot to Klára Gergely, his drawing teacher, who initially guided and supported him. During his seventh and eighth grades, he won a study drawing competition. He wanted to continue his studies in the field of art, but he needed to earn money. He enrolled in the Tótfalusi Kiss Miklós Vocational School of Printing, where he could constantly draw while working and learning the profession. Here, he obtained a qualification as an offset machine master in 1995. He then deepened his professional knowledge at the Budai School of Drawing, where he got to know various graphic techniques more closely, and later the genre of graffiti. For years, in the evenings after work, he learned and practiced the knowledge of the fine arts profession in an open school. His goal was to train himself from a self-taught artist into a professional. As a result of a passionate creative desire, years followed in which he “poured out his paintings,” as he said. Romantic themes and three-dimensional shapes began to occupy his mind. As a result of hard work, his distinctive style developed around 2006, where initially the main motifs of his paintings were the schematic, geometric representations of the animal world.

When he had a sufficient artistic background, in 2007 he applied for membership in the Hungarian Painters Association. The association welcomed the talented young man with joy, who at that time began to develop his distinctly individual method of image creation, which he later named the SGSTRUKTURA painting movement. By 2013, this work had matured, and since then, the movement he created has been legally protected. Its essence is that non-figurative spatial formations were gradually built on the surface of a geometrically divided panel painting according to the motifs. So far, Gábor Sugár has about 450 works registered. Since the turn of the millennium, he has been a regular participant in the exhibitions of the Hungarian Painters Association and other national exhibitions.

His further plan is to create as many paintings as possible while maintaining quality, expanding his efforts with new and original ideas. He also intends to go abroad, participate in as many exhibitions as possible, and enter as many competitions as possible.