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| '''Gábor Városi''' (born 10 December 1965) is a contemporary Hungarian painter, sculptor, photographer and |
'''Gábor Városi''' (born 10 December 1965) is a contemporary Hungarian painter, sculptor, photographer and architectural designer.<ref name=":02">{{cite web |title=Biography of Gábor Városi - East of Eden Gallery |url=https://www.eastofeden.hu/gabor-varosi |website=]}}</ref> | ||
| He is the creator of the Poet’s Garden Villa Park and Gallery,<ref name=": |
He is the creator of the Poet’s Garden Villa Park and Gallery,<ref name=":12">{{cite web |date=6 March 2023 |title=Everyday endorphins - Interview with Gabor Varosi |url=https://fashionstreetonline.hu/2023/03/06/a-mindennapok-endorfinja-interju-varosi-gaborral/}}</ref> a residential complex and avant-garde, habitable sculpture built around a statue park, a Zen garden and an exhibition space. He was a student of ], Ignác Kokas, Gábor Dienes and Zoltán Tölg-Molnár. He is known for his monumental, kinetic, glass sculptures with varying lighting, abstract expressionist paintings, atavistic glass masks and unique buildings. | ||
| He is known for his monumental, kinetic, glass sculptures with varying lighting, abstract expressionist paintings, atavistic glass masks and unique buildings. | |||
| His activities centre around efforts to integrate works of art into the buildings of major real estate investments using 1% of their budget, with a view to promoting art and artists. Another key theme of his work involves exploring ways to reduce the distance between people and art, making art a part of everyday life. | |||
| ⚫ | His most recent work includes experimenting with |
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| ⚫ | == Early life and |
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| ⚫ | His most recent work includes experimenting with connecting of physical paintings to ] and ]. Traditional panel paintings complemented by monitors allow for a slow metamorphosis, hiding messages that are also integrated into the virtual space as ]. <ref name=":22">{{cite web |last=Bodó |first=János |date=10 November 2023 |others=Page 195 |title=Biography of Gábor Városi - Bodó Gallery Auction Catalog |url=https://bodogaleria.hu/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/10-teli-aukcio-katalogus.pdf}}</ref> | ||
| Gábor Városi was born in ], ], the son of a military officer father and journalist mother. Displaying a talent for fine art, he studied to become an artist from high school. | |||
| From 1980 to 1984 he attended the Secondary School of Visual Arts as a student of artists Zoltán Tölg-Molnár and István Gábor, architect György László Sáros, literary aestheticians Zsuzsa Pál and Ágnes Ék, and professor of history Dr. Péter Kőszeghy. As a student he won several competitions and awards, including the Domanovszky Award and the March 15 Concept Award. | |||
| He continued his studies from 1985 to 1989 at the ], Department of Painting. He was the student of the masters Ignác Kokas, and later Gábor Dienes. In 1987, he was invited by Layota Art AB to paint in Sweden, and exhibited his work in Stockholm. He presented his first ever solo exhibition in the fall of 1987, in La Galerie de La Rochefoucauld in Paris where his mentor and master, Victor Vasarely gave the opening speech. | |||
| In 1992, he completed the three-year Master’s course at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts with distinction, while at the same time he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities of ], majoring in Philosophy and Sociology. <ref name=":0" /> <ref name=":2" /> | |||
| ⚫ | == Painting == | ||
| ⚫ | == Early life and studies == | ||
| ⚫ | In the second half of the 1980s, Városi’s painting moved towards abstraction, using tachisme, stain painting and action painting, simultaneously combining geometric forms with lyrical elements. These lyrical abstract paintings using mixed techniques attracted the attention of ], the world-famous father of |
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| Gábor Városi was born in ], ], the son of a military officer father and journalist mother. From 1980 to 1984 he attended the Secondary School of Visual Arts as a student of the artists Zoltán Tölg-Molnár and István Gábor, the architect György László Sáros, literary aestheticians Zsuzsa Pál and Ágnes Ék, and the history professor Dr. Péter Kőszeghy. He continued his studies at the ] from 1985 to 1989, Department of Painting. He was a student of the masters Ignác Kokas, and later Gábor Dienes. In 1987 he was invited by Layota Art AB to paint in Sweden, and exhibited his work in Stockholm. In the autumn of 1987 he held his first solo exhibition at the Galerie de La Rochefoucauld in Paris, where his mentor and master, Victor Vasarely gave the opening speech. In 1992 he graduated with distinction from the three-year master's course at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, while at the same time completing his studies in philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of Humanities of ] <ref name=":02" /> <ref name=":22" /> | |||
| ⚫ | In 2019 Városi returned to art |
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| == Photography == | |||
| Városi has visited more than 90 countries. He photographed his travels using the best analogue and digital techniques available, creating portraits and landscapes. His 1980s Practica camera was followed a decade later by Hasselblad’s Xpan, and later, when analogue cameras were phased out, the camera of choice became the lens of the current best phone. As Warhol said about Polaroid: “It’s not the technique, it’s the composition that matters.” | |||
| == Exhibitions == | |||
| ⚫ | == Painting == | ||
| *Group exhibitions: “Plein Air” and “Water”, at the latter of which he won first prize. | |||
| ⚫ | In the second half of the 1980s, Városi’s painting moved towards abstraction, using tachisme, stain painting and action painting, simultaneously combining geometric forms with lyrical elements. These lyrical abstract paintings using mixed techniques attracted the attention of ], the world-famous father of Op-Art, who invited the young painter to become his student. After a scholarship in Sweden, he made his debut in Paris in a highly successful solo exhibition opened by Victor Vasarely. In the decade following the of the old master's retirement Városi turned increasingly to abstract encaustic technique. | ||
| * In autumn 1987, his first solo exhibition was held in Paris, at La Galerie de La Rochefoucauld. His mentor and master, Victor Vasarely gave the opening speech to the exhibition. | |||
| * In November 1988, an exhibition at La Galerie d’Art Internationale, Paris. | |||
| * In April 1989, an exhibition in Budapest, in the Barcsay Hall. | |||
| * 1990, exhibition in Bochum, Germany | |||
| * 1991 exhibition in Karlsruhe | |||
| * 1992 Budapest, Duna Gallery, solo exhibition | |||
| * 1996 Budapest, Pesterzsébet Museum, solo exhibition | |||
| * 2002 Szentendre and Budapest, Barabás Villa Gallery | |||
| * 2004 Budapest, Lurdy Gallery | |||
| ⚫ | In 2019, Városi returned to art after an almost twenty-year hiatus<ref>{{cite web |title=Városi Gábor (1965): Gesture, 2021 – Bodó Gallery auction item |url=https://bodogaleria.hu/aukciok/10-teli-aukcio/tetel/4089/varosi-gabor-1965-gesztus-2021?lang=en}}</ref> and began creating new, abstract expressionist works during the pandemic lockdown. The paintings, created with his new technique are layered and partly three-dimensional. They are artworks based on psychic automatism, in the spirit of the new ] - painted and printed by hand, and also partly created digitally.<ref name=":02" /> | ||
| After the 2004 exhibition, he took a break from painting for almost two decades, then returned during the Covid 19 period by paintings in memory of loved ones he had lost. | |||
| == Buildings, "Habitable scluptures" == | |||
| * 2022 Budapest, Poet’s Garden Villa Park and Gallery, solo exhibition titled Multisensory journey | |||
| Városi has for many years been involved in photography, sculpture, and architectural design, where he is best known for his "habitable sculptures". The most famous of these is the Poet's Garden Villa Park and Gallery, a residential complex and avant-garde, habitable sculpture built around a statue park, a Zen garden and an exhibition space where architecture, sculpture, and painting are reinforced in a revolutionary complex 3D composition.<sup><ref name=":12" /></sup> | |||
| * 2022 Art Market Budapest, VIP Lounge – Focus on the glass sculptures of Városi | |||
| * 2022 Art Market Budapest, Erdész Gallery & Design exhibited his abstract expressionist paintings. | |||
| == Other Artistic Endeavours == | |||
| === 1. Buildings, “Habitable sculptures” === | |||
| These are designed as sculptures that also function as high-end apartments, created around/near Városi’s sculptures and paintings made with co-creators – architects, interior designers, landscapers, contractors and investors. <ref name=":1" /> The buildings in their entirety, with their carefully placed artistic details and the artworks, are designed to evoke emotions in residents and visitors, which are consciously composed into a coherent experience for the viewer. The technocratic approach of the West is softened by the philosophical tranquillity of the East in the form of zen plant islands, water surfaces and garden areas. His forerunners in this field include the Austrian ] and the Catalan ], who also used techniques to blur the dividing line between exterior and interior spaces, while the plants that symbolize nature and are an integral part of the composition often continue into the living spaces. | |||
| 1992 Construction of the first “Sculpture House” – followed by twenty more. | |||
| 2004 Shambala Home | |||
| 2010 Art Home | |||
| 2016 Invitation to the competition for the design of the Budapest Museum of Ethnography, for which designs were created by Szabolcs Nagy-Miticzky, Ádám Vesztergom, Lajos Hartvig, Béla Bánáti, and László Lelkes. | |||
| 2022 Poet’s Garden Villa Park and Gallery. | |||
| === 2. Kinetic glass sculptures === | |||
| Monumental, moving glass sculptures with varying internal lighting. The rotation and varying color and intensity of these unique, kinetic, multi-ton works of art are controlled by artificial intelligence, adapting to the lightshow projected onto the surrounding gardens and buildings. They perceive and react to the viewer. They comprise a homage to the works of ] and ]. | |||
| === 3. Bent glass masks, totems === | |||
| “Primitive and ancient”, these are works that allow the hardening glass to have its own will. When first made, it is impossible to calculate when and how the stiffening, cooling material will crack or break – so the outcome is never the mask originally planned. This unpredictability is precisely the point, and was inspired by ] and ]’s experimentation with African and Alaskan tribal masks, which challenged contemporary conceptions of art. | |||
| == Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
| ⚫ | 2022 Journalist Tamás Nagy and Munkácsy Award-winning graphic artist László Lelkes wrote a book summarizing the oeuvre of Gábor Városi.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tamás |first=Nagy |last2=László |first2=Lelkes |title=Gabor Városi - Stories, Artworks, Artistic Periods |url=https://varosibook.com/book/}}</ref> The 350-page publication was presented on 5 October 2022 as part of a new exhibition of abstract expressionist paintings and kinetic sculptures in the newly built Poet's Garden Villa Park and Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Biography of Gábor Városi - Kieselbach Gallery |url=https://www.kieselbach.hu/artist/varosi_-gabor_6549 |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=Kieselbach |language=en}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | 2022 Journalist Tamás Nagy and Munkácsy Award-winning graphic artist László Lelkes wrote a book summarizing the oeuvre of Gábor Városi.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tamás |first=Nagy |last2=László |first2=Lelkes |title=Gabor Városi - Stories, Artworks, Artistic Periods |url=https://varosibook.com/book/}}</ref> The 350-page publication was presented as part of a new exhibition of abstract expressionist paintings and kinetic sculptures in the newly built |
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| == NFT, Metaverse, Crypto (2022-) == | |||
| In 2018, with the growing popularity of the term ‘]’, many saw a new and unique opportunity, and from the second half of 2022, that promise bore fruit for many. However, for Városi, the chief interest in ]s lay in their ability to render works of art in the digital space unique and unrepeatable, just as paintings and sculptures are in physical reality. And, having created such digital works, blockchain promised to be the best way to get them to the user. His buildings, paintings and sculptures exist in reality, but for that very reason they are limited by geographical distance from a larger potential audience. In a digital metaverse, by contrast, the whole world potentially has access to an artist’s creations. <ref name=":2" /> | |||
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Hungarian Artist
Gábor Városi (born 10 December 1965) is a contemporary Hungarian painter, sculptor, photographer and architectural designer.
He is the creator of the Poet’s Garden Villa Park and Gallery, a residential complex and avant-garde, habitable sculpture built around a statue park, a Zen garden and an exhibition space. He was a student of Victor Vasarely, Ignác Kokas, Gábor Dienes and Zoltán Tölg-Molnár. He is known for his monumental, kinetic, glass sculptures with varying lighting, abstract expressionist paintings, atavistic glass masks and unique buildings.
His most recent work includes experimenting with connecting of physical paintings to blockchains and virtual reality. Traditional panel paintings complemented by monitors allow for a slow metamorphosis, hiding messages that are also integrated into the virtual space as NFTs.
Early life and studies
Gábor Városi was born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of a military officer father and journalist mother. From 1980 to 1984 he attended the Secondary School of Visual Arts as a student of the artists Zoltán Tölg-Molnár and István Gábor, the architect György László Sáros, literary aestheticians Zsuzsa Pál and Ágnes Ék, and the history professor Dr. Péter Kőszeghy. He continued his studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts from 1985 to 1989, Department of Painting. He was a student of the masters Ignác Kokas, and later Gábor Dienes. In 1987 he was invited by Layota Art AB to paint in Sweden, and exhibited his work in Stockholm. In the autumn of 1987 he held his first solo exhibition at the Galerie de La Rochefoucauld in Paris, where his mentor and master, Victor Vasarely gave the opening speech. In 1992 he graduated with distinction from the three-year master's course at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, while at the same time completing his studies in philosophy and sociology at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University.
Painting
In the second half of the 1980s, Városi’s painting moved towards abstraction, using tachisme, stain painting and action painting, simultaneously combining geometric forms with lyrical elements. These lyrical abstract paintings using mixed techniques attracted the attention of Victor Vasarely, the world-famous father of Op-Art, who invited the young painter to become his student. After a scholarship in Sweden, he made his debut in Paris in a highly successful solo exhibition opened by Victor Vasarely. In the decade following the of the old master's retirement Városi turned increasingly to abstract encaustic technique.
In 2019, Városi returned to art after an almost twenty-year hiatus and began creating new, abstract expressionist works during the pandemic lockdown. The paintings, created with his new technique are layered and partly three-dimensional. They are artworks based on psychic automatism, in the spirit of the new Pop Art - painted and printed by hand, and also partly created digitally.
Buildings, "Habitable scluptures"
Városi has for many years been involved in photography, sculpture, and architectural design, where he is best known for his "habitable sculptures". The most famous of these is the Poet's Garden Villa Park and Gallery, a residential complex and avant-garde, habitable sculpture built around a statue park, a Zen garden and an exhibition space where architecture, sculpture, and painting are reinforced in a revolutionary complex 3D composition.
Bibliography
2022 Journalist Tamás Nagy and Munkácsy Award-winning graphic artist László Lelkes wrote a book summarizing the oeuvre of Gábor Városi. The 350-page publication was presented on 5 October 2022 as part of a new exhibition of abstract expressionist paintings and kinetic sculptures in the newly built Poet's Garden Villa Park and Gallery.
- ^ "Biography of Gábor Városi - East of Eden Gallery". East of Eden.
- ^ "Everyday endorphins - Interview with Gabor Varosi". 6 March 2023.
- ^ Bodó, János (10 November 2023). "Biography of Gábor Városi - Bodó Gallery Auction Catalog" (PDF). Page 195.
- "Városi Gábor (1965): Gesture, 2021 – Bodó Gallery auction item".
- Tamás, Nagy; László, Lelkes. "Gabor Városi - Stories, Artworks, Artistic Periods".
- "Biography of Gábor Városi - Kieselbach Gallery". Kieselbach. Retrieved 2024-05-09.