Duration of the exhibition: 3rd of November 2023 – 13th of January 2024
Opening: Friday, 3rd of November 2023, 6 p.m., the third floor of the Transylvanian Art Centre
The exhibition was opened by Beáta Bordás, art historian and Deodáth Zuh, historian of philosophy, curator of the exhibition.
The short biography of the artist:
Zsolt BODONI (b. Aleșd, 1975), after graduating from the High School of Art in Târgu Mureș, obtained a diploma in Graphic Arts at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts. He is one of the founders, main organizer and permanent participant of the Art Colony of Aleșd, which has turned 27 years old this year. He opened solo exhibitions in Milan, London, New York, Buffalo, Los Angeles and Dubai.
From the early creative period as a young artist, he has been interested in the creative use of constraints and their feasible transformation, as well as the possibility of stepping out of the frame of the more specific genres of visual creation through experimentation. Zsolt Bodoni’s paintings repeat and mix key elements from the universal history of art and his own work. All this is done in a way that collage technique creates something new, invisible to the naked eye.
Solo exhibitions (selection):
2006: Hungarian Cultural Institute, Brussels • 2008: Monuments, FA Projects, London • 2009: Yesterday’s Heroes, Tomorrow’s Fools, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles; The Foundries of Ideology, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York • 2010: Son of the White Mare, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York • 2011: Gods and Mortals, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles; Remastered, Brand New Gallery, Milano • 2013: King Give Us Soldiers, Green Art Gallery, Dubai • 2015: The Shining Path, Green Art Gallery, Dubai • 2017: Forest, Art+Text Budapest • 2019: E.H.M.S., Art+Text Budapest; Duo Exhibition with Márton Nemes, BuBu, 1120 Gallery, Buffalo • 2021: Hybrids, David Kovats Gallery, London (in partnership with Einspach Fine Art & Photography)
Brief description of the exhibition:
Zsolt Bodoni's works exhibited here are the fruit of the last three years, here the artist realizes his collages through the hybrid imaging technique: in the same frame, through different light effects, two successive compositions unfold on the painted surface.
The exhibition is accompanied by a trilingual catalogue in a special design with a foreword by Zuh Deodáth, a biography of the artist, a list and high-quality photographic reproductions of the exhibited works.
Organisers:
Town Hall of Sfântu Gheorghe
Transylvanian Art Center Association
Sponsors:
Bethlen Gábor Fund
Einspach Fine Art & Photography, Budapest
