A Face from the Square (Arc a Körtérről)(2007),Oil on canvas,250×180 cm,Courtesy of the artist 

Sleeping Homeless (Alvó hajléktalan)(2014),Oil on canvas,180×250 cm,Courtesy of the artist

Spanning over four decades, the career of László Fehér began in Hungary during the 1970s, a time when Hungary belonged to the Socialist bloc. His paintings often address motifs of the family, banalities of everyday life, lonely landscapes, and lonely people. 

The Face from the Square is a series of portraits of homeless people and visions captured in Fehér’s everyday experiences while walking through the square near where he lives. Enlarged and spectacular in scale, these portraits contain within them a sense of paradox and ambivalence, where personalities engulfed in pitch-black backgrounds are pushed into the periphery of society. They are anonymous characters, suspended between reality and dream- like vision. They stare at the emptiness and their expression is filled with deep solitude and loneliness.