budapest issue 203

Mar 2010

Matyas Misetics Photographer

Budapest - photographers

For all its technological advancement, Matyas Misetics' work exudes a return to the figurative painting of previous centuries; his goal, a perfectly fabricated picture. With the use of contrasting light and well-considered locations the photographer constructs his own image code that even works alongside a strong narrative element. According to the Berlin-based theoretician and curator, Horst Kloever, Matyas' photographs are close to the aesthetics of film, especially the modern form of Film Noir: full of atmosphere, latent tension and uncertainty.