Peter Horvath is an assemblage artist who has exhibited around the world in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His works remain in prestigious permanent collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Nion McEvoy Collection, Davies Ward Philips & Vineberg LLP, and The New Museum in New York. Peter’s most recent exhibitions include solo and group shows at Galerie de Bellefeuille in Toronto as well as collective exhibitions at multiple locations at Song-Word Art House, ArtCan in London, Art Gallery of Hamilton in Canada, and the AC Institute in New York. 

A TITAN of post-pop surfaces, Peter Horvath by himself instills the art of assemblage as a top-tier artform in contemporary discourse. Unlike many other pop artists, Peter elevates his subjects beyond icons of popular culture into reverence on the scale of shrines to contemporary gods and titans. His subjects typically emanate from the golden era of entertainment from the 1940s to the 1970s. In Peter’s assemblages, the viewer will find stars such as Frank Sinatra, women from James Bond films, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Billie Holiday, and Clint Eastwood. He creates an appeal to these characters which border on mythology between the tears of his books, newsprint, magazines, star stickers, and spraypaint into realms of high-aesthetic nostalgia.

The technique we will find in Peter Horvath’s works entails assemblages with carefully orchestrated composition yet applied in a crude manner. As a result, much of Peter’s works may resemble torn subway posters one would find on the streets and train stations of New York. These compositions bloom and blast towards creating an understanding of how these cultural icons from the golden era of film, music, television, and entertainment have had an impact on our collective social and cultural psyche. Peter’s assemblages investigate surfaces into cosmic realms of creating the sheer tear of the paper in his works to resemble forms similar to lightning. His approach to assemblage redefines the artform and medium beyond expressions of improvisation and into configurations which express a deep aesthetic to subjects which would otherwise be regarded as distant memories. With grand gesture and brilliant craftsmanship, Peter Horvath elevates notions of low-brow symbolism into pieces of grand high-art constructs.