From the series My Father Painted at the Greatest Height | Făgăraș Mountains, with Moldoveanu, Peak in the background
2025
digital capture; archival pigment print
102 x 80 cm
Fekete Zsolt (1935-2016):
Făgăraș Mountains, with Moldoveanu Peak in the background
1987
watercolor
65 x 45 cm
Judging from the fragments of Zsolt’s exhibition My Father Painted at the Greatest Height, I sense an attempt at reconciliation and reaching harmony with his paternal legacy. Whether it concerns the village of Ikland (Icland, Romania) with its landscape, golf course and memories, his artistic path, or even his own name, Zsolt seems to present a puzzle assembled from intimate family fragments, which anyone may engage with in their own way.
(Eliodor Moldovan)
photo: Fekete Zsolt
Zsolt Fekete
(1967, Marosvásárhely / Târgu Mureș, RO)
He graduated with a degree in photography from the Hungarian University of Art and Design, where his tutors were Imre Benkő and Tibor Miltényi. He often works with large-format film, creating photographs from multi-row panoramas. He received a József Pécsi Scholarship from 1996 to 1998. His album Az idő fényképe [A Photograph of Time] won a Beautiful Hungarian Books award in 2010. Between 2016 and 2019 he had three solo exhibitions in his hometown. His works feature in the collections of the Kész Group and the Flemish Cultural Institute.