He takes his inspiration from the day-to-day life of the village, the farms, gardens, pets and livestock or the local pubs, but this micro-environment is enlarged onto a cosmic, transcendental plane through his art. He populates his works with diverse human, animal and plant forms of life, painted using a system of vivid patches of colour, often drawing the scenes from an unusual perspective – such as from very high up, or perhaps from several viewpoints. His mini-dramas, with their generous helping of playfulness and irony, have much in common with the world of children’s drawings and folk art.
The workaday events are sometimes given a fantastical or mythological horizon, but there is no point in searching for familiar scenes behind the pictures, as the narrative always remains individual and sovereign. Besides the oil paintings, Kunsthalle Budapest’s first retrospective exhibition of Péter Földi’s work also includes a selection of bronze statues.