NEWS ART tension as well as depth and surface as they are moved about, unfolding and transforming along the gallery walls. This fluid relationship between the whole and the segment are the crux Artist Reception: Friday, of Forgó’s sophisticated November 17, 6:00 – 8:30 practice. pm Árpád Forgó has exhibited in various inter“I respond to the material. It wants national venues across me to shape and caress. It’s how the four continents, among material responds to you working with them the Museo della it that creates the object . . .” – Arpad Permanente, Milan, Italy; Forgo Hun Gallery, New York City, New York; X-Power Anya Tish Gallery is delighted to anGallery, Taipei, Taiwan; nounce the second solo exhibition of the University of Hawaii, Budapest-based artist Árpád Forgó, Honolulu, Hawaii; SNO titled Tales From the First Floor. In the Gallery, Sydney Austradition of the Hungarian neo avanttralia; Iletisim Kitabevi garde, Forgó utilizes shaped canvas to Gallery, Ismir, Turkey; create visually alluring, subtle kinetic Hungarian Academy, works while embracing the heritage of Rome, Italy; Rómer European abstraction and developing Flóris Art and Hisit further through his own geometric tory Museum, Györ, methods, such as reflection, shifting Hungary; and Milano and rotation. Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. By eradicating any reference to the Forgó has been awarded with numervisual world, Árpád Forgó’s carefully ous grants and residencies, including painted shaped canvas structures crethe Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, ate an entirely new object that instead Vermont; Third prize in the Leonardo references its own form. Each effulda Vinci Contemporary Art Biengently minimal work is pared down nale, Rome, Italy, the Visegrad Artist to its basic elements - form, color and Residency, Warsaw, Poland; the Sydney line, and created from various species Non Objective Contemporary Art of wood, such as Tasmanian oak, cedar Projects, Sydney, Australia; the Visual and balsa wood, into a unique spatial Artist Grant from the National Culturconstruction that retains the material’s al Fund of Hungary; the Artist Grant inherent integrity and beauty. By utiliz- from Can Serrat International Art ing what the artist calls “illusory drift” Center, El Bruc, Spain; the Lademoen as a visual tool to prompt a reading Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norof the works, Forgó questions how we way; the Rómer Flóris Art and History look, perceive and reveal the physical Museum, Györ, Hungary;The Golden aspects of space. Each viscerally proFoundation, New Berlin, NY, USA; and portioned work reveals compositional most recently was chosen to participate variations of lines, strips, or chords in the Swatch Art Peace Hotel’s AIR that simultaneously produce peace and Program in Shanghai, China.
ÁRPÁD FORGÓ Tales From the First Floor November 17 – December 23, 2017
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