Peter Sulo creates paintings and drawings inspired by popular, nostalgic,
Peter Sulo creates paintings and drawings inspired by popular, nostalgic, likeable or otherwise fetishised images which capture and hold attention. His early influences include Egon Schiele, Francisco Goya, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, among others, and this is sometimes visible in his work.
Sulo hails from Slovakia, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts and Design from 2004 to 2010, gaining a BA followed by an MA in Painting and other media. Besides his academic studies, over the past decade and a half Sulo has participated in a number of workshops and residencies across Europe (Austria, Hungary, Slovenia,Germany), as well as both solo and group exhibitions in UK, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria and Russia. He has been living and working in London since 2013.
Sulo’s work is rich in storytelling and is conceived as a kind of language, created for the purpose of sharing phantasmagories with other people. He employs visual stimuli from his surroundings and recreates them in painting and/or drawing in order to explore the elements from which they are constructed and to expand the meaning of an image through his own stories and interpretations. The ultimate aim of his art is to establish communication with other people through image but without insisting on a particular meaning, allowing the observer to connect with his works on their own terms, through their own narrative paradigms.