Dénes Wächter creates his post-top art style paintings, almost unique in Hungary, by combining and combining motifs, figures, patterns and styles from a wide variety of contexts.
He uses unprejudiced memories from the high and popular art of his childhood, which he offsets with more intellectual layers of his adult life by applying newer layers of paint. The style he possesses blends the humour and irony of pop art, the illusionism that confounds the opart senses, the decorative figurativity that characterises the domestic painting of the 1990s and the collage technique of Dada.
His art is characterised by tolerance. By painting side by side, he gives equal status to the American pin-up girl, Röltex-Panni, the GDR sewing machine, baroque putti, the Christian sun symbol and Moorish ornamentation. Just as in the psyche images, images and memories kept on the surface or underneath the consciousness do not separate, in Wächter’s paintings the different figures playfully entangle, blend and melt.
Thus, his paintings can be read as psychological states and reflect a typically millennial, collage-like mental state. In his current paintings, the primary element on which he has built is the card calendar, known to all and collected by many. Nostalgic pieces by today’s standards, they were part of the understated advertising campaigns of the socialist era, and today they represent a few glass grains in Wächter’s kaleidoscope.