Martin Kapošváry
I am a person who loves to create. Some may call me an artist. I’ve been making art for over 25 years. That’s because painting is natural for me. Ever since I was a child, I was more interested in pictures than text. I am dyslexic and dysgraphic, which has paradoxically helped pave the way to a more creative approach to life. I am inspired by renaissance thinking. Artists of that time were aware of a variety of techniques and types of art and had to understand the principles of how the world works. The essence is in the word creativity itself – to create and be created, thus becoming a creative scientist. Art is interconnected with other scientific fields; it is not a discipline on its own. This is opposed to the modern day approach of very narrow specialisation.
I studied Graphics at the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts and then I earned my master’s degree in Studio Painting and Art Education at the University of Ostrava – Faculty of Pedagogy, Department of Creative Arts.
I started tattooing in 2001, although I did design bespoke tattoos several years before. In 2001 I went to get a tattoo at a studio in Ostrava and I was offered the opportunity to try it myself.
I don’t have a specific tattoo style. Because I studied graphics and painting, I prefer realistic and biomechanical tattoo styles, as well as graphics and aquarelle. Depending on the individual designs, I also enjoy fantasy or painting-like tattoos. Quality is more important for me, rather than quantity. However, it’s not about what I want to create personally – I would like to create a piece of art together with the client, where we are both happy with the result. That is why I carefully consult the design and try to develop the original idea with the client.
Each piece of art requires time, whether it is a tattoo, painting or decoration. Art is always the same; it’s just the canvas that changes.
GRAPHICS
Poster
graphics – for Help the Children events (two years), Night of
Fighters (boxing exhibition)
Complete promotion of events and
gigs at the Arena Underground Club in Ostrava – Poruba
Booklets
– for the following bands: Xeranthenum (2005), Hyperion (2006),
Purity (2007)
Website design – www.xeranthenum.wz.cz,
www.arena.undergroundcz.com
Logos – Gym Ostrava Gladiators,
bands: Xeranthenum, Darkgod, Hyperion, Enwyllion and Purity, company
logos: Arena Underground Club, Mondo Bizarro, Cattivi fencing group,
Honey from Beskydy (Med z Beskyd)
Advertising banners:
Xeranthenum (band), Arena Underground Club + club events and gigs,
Sleepy Hollow Fest
Complete creation of a drawing book for
Pasterova Primary School
Graphic realisation of window displays
for hairdressers and collaboration on graphical works for the Czech
subsidiary of the Spanish company SALERM
CONCEPT
2004 – Budoucnost Gallery, “Earth” exhibition hosted by the Department of Art Education, Textile and Spatial Art Studio at the University of Ostrava
PAINTING
1999
– Shared exhibition with the group Baby at the Petr Bezruč Theatre
Gallery
2000 – First individual painting exhibition at the U
Chemiků Gallery, Secondary Industrial School of Chemistry,
Ostrava
2002 – Exhibition at the Petr Bezruč Theatre Gallery
– “Pandemonium”
2003 – Exhibition at the Hobbit Club in
Ostrava – “The Secret of Summer Two Years Ago”
2006 –
Exhibition at the Akord House of Culture in Ostrava-Zábřeh for the
Night of Fighters event
2007 – Exhibition at the Šambala
Teahouse in Ostrava – “Forgotten Dreams”
2011 –
Exhibition at the opening of Ficek Mystic Art Studio
2011 –
Oil painting exhibition at Art té kafé MANDALA in Kopřivnice –
“My Fantasy World”
Glass painting – decorative
glasses for Atom Hotel (now Clarion Hotel Ostrava)
Decorative
paintings for the Iris Pharmacy office
Decorative paintings for
the Arena Underground Club
Bespoke painting for the Petarda
Production Rock Club
Painted backdrops for the Akcent Dance
Club, Ostrava
INTERIOR PAINTING
Classroom
decoration at Volgogradská 6a High School
Clubhouse decoration
for a tourist group
Decoration of Club Bogotá – bar
painting
Foyer entrance decoration at Ostrčilova Primary School
(this has since been rebuilt)
Interior decoration of the shisha
section at the Na Větrném Kopci Teahouse (now closed)
Interior
decoration of X Laser Game Ostrava
Interior decoration of the
Panžáb (Podostrava) Teahouse
Interior decoration of Čaj Bar
Ostrava
AIRBRUSH
2011
– Exhibition at the Imperial Hotel Ostrava – Harley-Davidson
Ball
2011 – Painting exhibition at Euro Bike Fest in
Mušov
Airbrush bar decoration and airbrush decorative paintings
for Spider Tattoo
Airbrush painting on Reiter electric violins
(www.elektrickehousle.cz)
Airbrush painting on shutters for the
Petarda Production Rock Club in Třinec
Airbrush painting of
portraits for Babiččin fruit tea
Airbrush painting on t-shirts
for Seven Souls Tattoo (D)
DRAWING
1995
– 1998 Participation in two school exhibitions held by the
Secondary School of Arts and Crafts
2000
– Exhibition hosted by the Department of Art Education; Faculty of
Pedagogy at the University of Ostrava, Drawing Studio; held in
Havířov – “Birth and Death”
2000 – Exhibition hosted
by the Department of Art Education; Faculty of Pedagogy at the
University of Ostrava; plein air drawings
Bespoke tattoo designs
for Spider Tattoo
Wall drawing for Spider Tattoo
interiors
Illustrations for the Legends of Armandia board game
(www.fantasyobchod.cz)
PAPER
2003
– International Symposium on Paper – “Paper03” at the Na
Palmovce Synagogue in Prague
2003 – Exhibition hosted by the
Department of Creative Arts at the students’ gallery of the
Department of Creative Arts, Paper Studio – book named
“Paper”
Bespoke creation of diaries and books – guest book
for the Na Větrném Kopci Teahouse, chronicle for the Tae Kwon-Do
School in Ostrava
ASSEMBLAGE
2002 – Exhibition at the Petr Bezruč Theatre Gallery – “Human Machines”
DECORATIONS
2014
– Teahouse at Ufo Bufo – Psychedelic Music and Art Festival
2015
– Vypusťte Psy psytrance party – Plan B Club – Ostrava
2015
– Teahouse at Ufo Bufo – Psychedelic Music and Art Festival
2015
– Winter Horizont psytrance party – Šenov
2016 – Winter
Horizont psytrance party – Šenov
2016 – Progressive Stage
at Bio de Janeiro Open Air Festival
2016 – Installations for
the gallery at Ufo Bufo – Psychedelic Music and Art Festival
2016
– Teahouse at Beats for Love Festival
BODYPAINTING
2008
– Painting – “Faces of Czech LARP”
2008 – The Night of
Fighters – Thai box evening
2008 – Second anniversary of the
Zlatá Rybka Teahouse – performance
2010 – Student ball in
Polanka
2010 – VII Czech Bodypainting Championship – 3rd
place – Fairy-tale category
2010 – Harley-Davidson Club Ball
– Ostrava
2010 – Kindergarten in Ostrava-Jih –
bodypainting ZOO – animal face-painting
2010 – Halloween –
Fabric Club Ostrava
2010 – Hanka Salon Ball – Imperial Hotel
Ostrava
2010 – Afternoon for children from children’s homes
– Imperial Hotel Ostrava
2011 – Company event – ČSOB
Opava
2011 – Rotary Club Charity Ball – Imperial Hotel
Ostrava
2011 – Airbrush Art Festival – 1st
place in categories Airbrush bodypainting and Freestyle
2011 –
One World Festival – accompanying event in Fiducia – special
bodypainting studio for children
2011 – Euro Bike Fest –
Mušov – competition with “Motorbikes and Freedom” theme
2011
– Fashion Crossroad Ostrava – performance
2011 – World
Bodypainting Festival (A) – Brush and Sponge category – 17th
place
2012 – Harley-Davidson
Club Ball – Ostrava – Mining museum – performance
2012 –
World Bodypainting Festival (A) – Airbrush category – 5th
place
2012 – Bodypainting weekend at Masaryk Cottage – first
free bodypainters’ meeting
2012 – American car exhibition –
Černá louka Ostrava
2012 – Pencil, Ink, Skin – Exhibition
of Tattoo and Bodypainting Photographs – Ostrava Library
2012
– Bodypainting during the “Cirkusem trochu jinak” performance
for Rolls Royce – Prague
2012 – Bodypainting show for Hasil
a.s. – Park Inn Hotel Ostrava
2012 – Ostravský strakáč
meeting – Bodyart
2013 – Gienger Fair – Ostrava
2013
– Czech Raildays 2013 – Imperial Hotel Ostrava
2013 –
World Bodypainting Festival (A) – Airbrush category – 10th
place
2014 – Motorcycle Ball in Bílovec – Bodypainting
show
2014 – Halloweed Psychedelic Carnival – Marley
Club
2015 – Halloween Party – Speak With Me Language
School
2016 – Miss Caddy – UV bodypainting
2016 –
Judge at Interbeauty – Incheba Bratislava
2016 –
Bodypainting at the Czech Railways company event – Olomouc
2016
– Bodypainting and tattoos for the film Muzzikanti
2016 –
Judge at World Make-up Wars during Interbeauty Prague
TATTOO
2010
– Tattoo Action Česká Třebová
2011 – Poysdorf Tattoo
Weekend (A) – 3rd
place in Realistic Tattoo category
2011 – Tattoo Convention
Lübeck (D)
2011 – Tattoo Session Silesia (CZ)
2012 –
Tattoo Convention Dresden (D)
2012 – Tattoo Expo Liepzig
(D)
2012 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Innsbruck (A)
2012
– Rotterdam Tattoo Convention Ink and Steel (NL)
2012 –
Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Wien (A)
2012 – Wildstyle and
Tattoo Messe – Salzburg (A)
2012 – Tattoo Convention Erfurt
(D)
2012 – Rock'n'Ink Tattoo Festival – Chemnitz (D)
2012
– International Tattoo Convention Prague (CZ)
2012 – Tattoo
Convention Halle/Saale (D)
2012 – Tattoo Session Silesia
(CZ)
2012 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Passau (D)
2012
– Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Linz (A)
2013 – Tattoo
Convention Klagenfurt (A) – 3rd
place in Black & White category
2013 – Wildstyle and
Tattoo Messe – Wien (A)
2013 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe –
Salzburg (A)
2013 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Innsbruck
(A)
2013 – Tattoo Session Silesia (CZ)
2013 – Tattoo
Convention Villach (A)
2013 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe –
Dornbirn (A)
2013 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – St. Pölten
(A)
2013 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Linz (A)
2013 –
Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Graz (A)
2013 – Bodyart
Festival Ostrava (CZ)
2014 – Tattoo Convention Dresden
(D)
2014 – Tattoo Expo Liepzig (D)
2014 – Tattoo
Convention Klagenfurt (A)
2014 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe –
Wien (A)
2014 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Salzburg
(A)
2014 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Innsbruck (A)
2014
– Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Linz (A)
2014 – Tattoo
Convention Graz (A)
2014 – Tattoo Session Silesia (CZ)
2014
– Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Wr. Neustadt (A)
2014 –
Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Graz (A)
2014 – Wildstyle and
Tattoo Messe – St. Pölten (A)
2015 – Tattoo Convention
Dresden (D)
2015 – Tattoo Expo Liepzig (D)
2015 –
Tattoo Convention Klagenfurt (A)
2015 – Wildstyle and Tattoo
Messe – Wien (A)
2015 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe –
Salzburg (A)
2015 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Innsbruck
(A)
2015 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Linz (A)
2015 –
Tattoo Session Silesia (CZ) – 2nd
place in Skulls category
2016 – Tattoo Convention Dresden
(D)
2016 – Tattoo Expo Liepzig (D)
2016 – Tattoo
Convention Klagenfurt (A)
2016 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe –
Wien (A)
2016 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Salzburg
(A)
2016 – Wildstyle and Tattoo Messe – Innsbruck (A)
2016
– Tattoo Session Silesia (CZ) – 3rd
place in Flowers category
2017 – Tattoo Convention Dresden
(D)
2017 – Tattoo Expo Leipzig (D)
2017 – Tattoo
Convention Klagenfurt (A)