Having completed his art academy studies just a few years ago, Gergő Szinyova has developed an approach that is marked by a respect for classical predecessors and the exploitation of the potential tension generated by oppositions. Besides traditions, the young painter takes inspiration from numerous contemporary phenomena. Surfing the World Wide Web on a daily basis, he checks out the latest posts on his favourite photography, architecture, music, and design blogs, to collect inspiring sources in electronic folders. Over the course of his visual roaming, he has accumulated an archive of several thousand digital images and references. Surveying his collection of impressions, he analyses them from the emic (internal) and etic (non-participatory) perspectives that derive from cultural anthropological field work, integrating them into his own visual systems, while listening to electronic experimental music. Through the simultaneous application of the emic and the etic perspectives, the source images he analyses – be they references to the history of painting, architectural plans, sprayed graffiti or minimalist photos of objects – are made to transform into his own motifs in a way that often leaves the original elements and properties recognisable. Therefore the viewers have a feeling “as if” they had already met the elements emerging on the surfaces, in a different sense and context. Rather than belonging to the artist’s individual vocabulary of forms, this method of composition is a phenomenon extending to almost all the segments of the visual culture of our time. Using the chain of abstraction of “removal, filtering, integration”, Szinyova reflects on the current (crisis) situation of visual representation through its own set of notions.
Mónika Zsikla
EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2005 – 2010
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
One Way Ticket to Anywhere, Kisterem, Budapest
2019
No Abracadabra, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
2018
Comfortable / Comfortless, Kisterem, Budapest
2016
Imaginary Viaduct, Art+Text Budapest, Budapest
2015
Unplugged (7 works), Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
2013
Late Works, Art Gallery Paks, Paks
2012
Kisterem, Budapest
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Ereklye, Haydnkopf, Tihanyi Bencés Apátság Galériája, Tihany; Q Contemporary, Budapest
Winter Listing, Kisterem, Budapest
2021
When Art Meets Society / When Society Meets Art, aqb Project Space, Budapest
Sketch, Kisterem, Budapest
2020
Finally We Can Learn Something, Kincsem Palace (organised by Kisterem), Budapest
AIR 2019, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2019
Esterházy Art Award Hungary 2019, Ludwig Museum – Contemporary Art Museum
Listing VIII., Kisterem
2018
Meanwhile in Painting, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
The Rest / In Peace, 115–106, Budapest
2017
Abstract Hungary, Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz
2016
Not.a.t.work, Wangechi Mutu’s studio, Brooklyn, New York
Come As You Are, Annarumma Gallery, Naples
2015
The Dys-Picture Generation, Art+Text Budapest, Budapest
2014
Listing III, Kisterem, Budapest
BOOGIE WOOGIE, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
2013
Listing II, Kisterem, Budapest
B side, B55 Gallery, Budapest
2012
Cell, MODEM, Debrecen
Loop, Virág Judit Gallery, Budapest
Listing, Kisterem, Budapest
Stolen Objects, FUGA, Budapest
B.C.#2.1, Beach London, London
B.C.#2.1, Mexico Project Space, Leeds
2011
You stand here, public art project organised by Miskolc gallery, Miskolc
GEOMIX 2.0, B55 gallery, Budapest
Paper Panorama, Virág Judit gallery, Budapest
Face Control, ROHAM Gallery, Budapest
2009
I think sixteen hours a day before going to bed, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Contemporary Drawing, VICE gallery, Prague
Contemporary Drawing, Kasarne Kulturpark, Kosice
…to be continued, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2008
50 days, Studio gallery, Budapest
What’s up?, (with SZ.A.F.) Kunsthalle, Budapest
EDITIONS
2012
B.C.#2, Published by B.C. (UK)
UNTITLED 03, Published by Untitled Zine (BE)
2011
UNTITLED 03, Published by Untitled Zine (BE)
E (M) 01-11 / evenness (minus) 01-11 (personal), Published by Klorofill (HU)
The Past Doesn’t Have To Control Your Future (personal), Self-published (HU)
2010
ONE-WAY TICKET TO ANYWHERE (personal), Published by Kaugummi (FR)