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Artist Statement:
In my earlier works I was
examining even and odd
numbers, rhytms, angularity
and roundness, regular and
irregular shapes. Nature and
natural phenomena has always
inspired me the most, though
– as I was grown up in the
Middle East – meeting
decorative and ornamentic Arts
had an inevitable effect on my
visual approach.
In my first, „Bales”
series of paintings I was
looking for abstract features
in landscapes: I was testing
the contrary of using organic
surfaces with geometric
shapes, between 1996 and 2003.
In this period I found oil on
canvas as the proper technique
to create thick paint-welts
that later became my
felicitous device.
In the „Desire for the
one” set (2004-2005) I dealt
with numbers and cardinality,
the relation between one and
more, one and two, one and
three . Keeping the works’
handicraft features in order
to have subjective and
personal reinterpretation of
the numbers I strived for
formal reduction.
In the „Dice” series
(2005), after experimenting
with different techniques I
streched wooden and paper
elements under canvas for
enhancing plasticity,
resulting in a relief-like
surface. I’ve chosen dice as
the subject of my expedition,
because both the fact, that
this object depicts numbers
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Arpad Forgo Biography:
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33
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Painting Oil
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AWARD
2003 3rd Prize at Leonardo Da Vinci Contemporary Art Biennale, Rome, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2007 National Education Print Center, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Merlin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Almassy Square Cultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
2005 Retorta Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2005 Csokonai Theatre Gallery, Debrecen, Hungary
2005 Trafik Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2004 MOM Park Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2003 Iletisim Kitabevi Gallery, Izmir, Turkey
2002 Offroad Cultural Festival, Budapest, Hungary
1998 Kossuth Club Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
1996 IPK Gallery, Debrecen, Hungary
1994 Experimental Gallery, Eger, Hungary
1990 Mezon Gallery, Debrecen, Hungary
Group
2005 Oase Festival, Vienna, Austria
2005 Gödör Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2003 Csiga Gallery, Park Millenary, Budapest, Hungary
2003 Multimedia Happening, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Kispréposti Palace Gallery, Eger, Hungary
1994 National Aquarel Biennale, Eger, Hungary |
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