Represented artist
Éles Lóránt
szobrászat · fémszobrászat · installáció
Sculptor who reinterprets the visuality of the industrial world through metal sculpting techniques and installation solutions.
Lóránt Éles (Miskolc, 1989) reinterprets the raw visuality of the industrial world in his sculptures. He merges the principles of contemporary, progressive sculpture with sophisticated metal‑working techniques. In the medium of installation his works sometimes sit on the edge of the conventional palette, moving beyond the usual post‑modern colour‑plastic arrangement – often displayed by hanging from ceilings or mounted on walls.
The works achieved with enigmatic technical bravado, however, are philosophical pieces that occupy an indeterminate position along the past‑present‑future axis as a sort of fictitious relic.
Éles’s works frequently evoke the form‑world of everyday objects, creating the impression of fictitious tools. By recontextualising our ordinary, or even industrial, material surroundings, he asks about the possible directions of their aesthetic approach. Within the industrial shed that characterises Éles’s plastics, he develops scorching, organically‑appearing elements.
The hidden, often highly detailed unity — which stands in contrast to the outer shell, that is the seemingly functional neatness of the sculpture — can frequently be revealed through gaps and fissures. Its sharp sculptures, therefore, compel the viewer to abandon a distance‑keeping stance in favour of a closer, more intimate engagement.
The dark, clattering, organic sculpture fragments deliberately provoke the viewer with sometimes repulsive, uncertainty‑pushing qualities, displacing them into the aesthetic of the bizarre that surrounds the whole of the sculpture.
Works at byGodotEarlier professional biography
Full biography and exhibition history
Miskolc, 1989
Studies
2011 – 2017 Pécs University of Science, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture.
Awards
2022 Grand prize at the Godot Art Expo.
2022 Derkovits Gyula Fine Arts Scholarship
The 2021 Derkovits Gyula Visual Arts Scholarship.
2020 Derkovits Gyula Fine Arts Scholarship
2015 OMDK VII national student conference 2 .placement
2014 Semmelweis Innovation Award design (co‑production) 1. position
2013 II Zsolnay Festival Idea Competition 2. placement
2012 Axiál Public Space Competition 1 placement
Independent exhibitions
2023 Erekkel eleven the house, Godot Labor, Budapest
2020 Hidden Spaces, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts Parthenon‑FRŽ Room, Budapest
Selected group exhibitions
2023 Derkó ' 23, YBL6 Art Space, Budapest
2023 IT’S FINE, Bunker Galéria, Budapest
2022 Derkó ’22, Műcsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest
2021 11. DUNARTCOM International Artists' Colony exhibition. Somorjai
2021 Existence. Outside Ourselves, FUGA, Budapest
2021 Derkó '21, Műcsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest
2020 Derkó '20, Műcsarnok – Kunsthalle, Budapest
2019 Téreró. The meeting of industry and visual art, Pečsi Galerija, Pečs
2018 Sanctity – Counter‐Art. An Inspiration for the Study, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Stuttgart
2018 JARČEVAC, Nádor Gallery Art&Med Cultural Centre, Pécs
2017 Gaze. 650 year old Pécs University, Nádor Gallery Art&Med Cultural Centre, Pécs
2017 Infinite Design, Nádor Gallery Art&Med Cultural Centre, Pécs
2017 Csizek Tamás / Éles Lóránt / Hadházi Balázs, KorTársak, Nádor Gallery Art&Med Cultural Centre, Pécs
2017 Art Moments: ENTRÉE, Buda Castle, Mikve exhibition space, Budapest
2016 DesignPécs. Artistic intervention, or sculptors in the factory, Nádor Gallery Art&Med, Cultural Centre, Pécs
Made in Hungary, Etihad Modern Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi: 2016
2016 Pécs Airport, Art Hall, Budapest
2015 Amadeus, Nádor Gallery, Pécs
2014 Evidencia. Third Sculpture Biennial, Művészet Malom, Szentendre
2014 Amadeus, Nádor Gallery, Pécs
2014 Plusz. PTE MK and ÁOK introductory exhibition, Nádor Gallery Art&Med Cultural Centre, Pécs
2013 Amadeus, Nádor Gallery, Pécs
2013 International Study Centre, Kipar Colony, Jarcevac (Croatia)
2012 Selection from the works of PTE MK graduate and postgraduate students, House of Arts and Literature Pécs
2012 Works and studies by PTE MK sculpture students: Fine Arts and
House of Literature, Pécs
Exhibition moments
Images from a shared history
Solo and group exhibitions
