Kovács Zita, N.: Baky Péter. Találkozások - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 37. (Baja, 2020)
Zita N. Kovács: Encounters „Painting and drawing can't be stopped, I paint even when I steep" Péter Baky has a rather special career. He graduated as a painter from the Hungarian College of Fine Arts in 1977. He considers Endre Domanovszky, Jenő Barcsay, László Sándor Veress, János Blaski and Károly Klimó as his masters, whom he admired when started, with whose principles he was engaged for a lifetime, but the decisive liberation arrived for him after long, difficult years (he didn't take even a brush in his hand for a decade) as a particular Baky's path: a special symbiosis of surrealism, expressionism, constructivism, and symbolism. More specifically, the creative attitude he drew and converted for himself from the inspiring sources of these four trends. The artist's oeuvre, which has been exhibiting since 1979, combines desire and reality, dream and wakefulness, engineering precision and overwhelming sensuality, the structure of which, however, is consciously thought out, and chance has nothing to gain from them. Initially, between 1980 and 1986, Péter Baky worked primarily as an applied graphic artist, from 1986 to 1992 he taught at the Illyés Gyula Teacher Training College in Szekszárd, then from 1993 to 2012 he was the director of the House of Arts in Szekszárd. At the same time, between 1996 and 2011, he worked as the artistic director of the Cellar Gallery in Ferencváros. He has run several art colonies. He currently lives and works in Balatonkenese. Tolna County 'Príma' Prize winner, 'Pro Űrbe Szekszárd 2000' prize winner, in 2014 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit, in 2020 he received the Munkácsy Prize. He is the member of the Association of Hungarian Fine and Applied Artists, the National Association of Hungarian Artists, the Association of Artists Guild of Veszprém, the Society of Hungarian Painters and the Society of Hungarian Watercolorists. MAOE board member, member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, member of the College of Fine Arts of National Cultural Fund delegated by professional organizations. The vision, symbol system and meaning of his works tear us out of the limitations of contemporary reality, current time and space. It's as if scenes from a strange drama take
