Zsolt Tibor Zsolt Tibor

OPENING
Thursday, 10.12.2009, 6.30 pm

WELCOME
Fritz Oberlerchner, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board STRABAG SE

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Zsolt Petrányi, Director Mücsarnok, Budapest

In a fragmented world, where global issues meet with local problems, human existence is faced with a new vision. The circumstances in which we have to live are drawing a very different picture of the world from the one in which we were socialized. In such a situation the artist has to play a different role from the one played in the past, depicting this kaleidoscope of our world at many levels.

Zsolt Tibor is essentially a drawer, photographer and installation artist and uses the materials and the wall as the basis of his artistic expression to collect real and abstract motifs on a surface where the borders of his works never stop at the edges of the art piece. In his mind, art and reality have the same root which has to be explored. Our understanding can be compared to seeing: we notice elements of the globalized world and we put them together at the level of our intelligence. In Zsolt Tibor’s art as well we try to describe the elements of his pieces and their position on the exhibition surface, and from this experience understand his universe which reflects in its details the fragmentation and complexity of our existence. Zsolt Petrányi, Director Mücsarnok, Budapest

In addition to the drawings and pictures that I have made mainly on paper, on which I am continuously working, I am looking for the possibility of creating larger (intermedia) complex objects. Based on this, I study various phenomena such as visual and mental habits, layers or, for example, the mechanism of appropriation. Through the interaction of the elements and through this "setting in scene" I research their possible analysis.
At work I use photos, conventional techniques, but also projections and various means such as lenses, condensers, adhesive strips.
Although the installations are independent of one another, they contain several aspects that build on one another. I try to deal with it every day as well as with the photos assigned to them, sometimes only used as a starting point, which I take in parallel.
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Photos: Max Moser