MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release - 6/09/2010
Directors Cut Exhibition online- Blake Prize, Sydney
György Szerencsi sculptor’s work ‘Escalating’has been selected for the Directors Cut Exhibition online as part of the Blake Prize exhibition in Sydney.
The Blake Prize is one of the more prestigious art prizes in Australia. Since 1951 the Blake Society has been awarding a prize for works of art that explore the subject of religious awareness and spirituality. The forthcoming Directors Cut Exhibition is an online exhibition that will future on the Blake Society’s website from Wednesday 6 October 2010
György works in the minimalist style combined with narratives which provoke questions about our existence, in spiritual and philosophicalcontexts, using architectural elements as an expression of these ideas such as staircases, ladders and building-like structures.György was also a finalist in 2008 Blake Prize.
The exhibition marks an important time frame for as Rod Pattenden states “Religious Art reminds us that the arts have a valuable role to play in a society as we explore the place of passion, love, belief and action. Learning to appreciate the diversity of belief allows more opportunity to act together with understanding and compassion..” Rod PattendenRev Rod Pattenden in an artist, art historian and Chairperson of the BlakeSociety.
“György Szerencsi’s sculpture and painting often imbues a minimalist geometric simplicity with a surrealist interest in the uncanny; adding to the phenomenon of the object, a sublime suggestion of the mysterious, almost noumenal sense of a beyond to the presence of the object before us.” Dr. David AkinsonLecturer Art Theory,Faculty of Art, University of Southern Queensland.
“I began sculpting when I was twelve years old. Due to my experiences and social background, I am interested in creating moments of displacement, through the use of contradictory logic, paradoxes and broken narratives. My sculptures reference recognisable architectural details, but the slippage of scale and the manipulation of space create an illusion of irrationality and impossibility, resulting in an alienation of the familiar evoking the sublime. What emerges are unknown spaces and illusionswhich force us to confront multiple possibilities and ultimately acknowledge the space of transit between the object and the viewer.As Peter Eisenman mention it: “The new condition of the object must be between in an imaginable sense as well: it is something which is almost this, or almost that, but not quite either. The displacing experience is the uncertainty of partial knowing”. Peter Eisenman.” György Szerencsi
“The Contemporary Art Space in UniPlaza on West Street featuring the work of György Szerencsi in an exhibition titled Districts. The pieces, in two and three-dimensional format, use architectural elements arches, recessed doorways, windows and edges of buildings to convey a sense of vacant habitation. Some of the freestanding works are lit from within and include staircases leading nowhere. The feeling of absence and pervasive silence is reminiscent of the atmosphere evoked in the work of artist, Giorgio de Chirico.” (Sandy Pottinger, Toowoomba Chronicle, 2003).
György Szerencsi has been a practicing artist for thirty years. He lives and works in Bell, Queensland. He made several public art works and his work is held in several public art collections in Australia and in private collections in the United States and Europe. He studied at the Fine and Applied Collage of Art, Budapest and the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba. He holds both a Diploma in Art and a Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree. As a sculptor and designer, has also producednumber of large public art works.
He also received awards and grants: First Prize, Crows Nest Acquisitive Sculpture Competition – 2008, First Prize, Kath Dickson Art Award, Toowoomba – 2007, Regional Arts Development Fund, Logan City Council – 2005, Finalist in 2008 Blake Prize.
Selections of his work are available for perusal at his Websites
György Szerencsi,Directors Cut Exhibition online- Blake Society’s website from Wednesday 6 October 2010 -15 January 2011 This is an online exhibition.
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