- Dates
- 13 June 2001 – 29 June 2001
- Venue
- Godot Galéria · A korabeli cím ellenőrzés alatt.
- Press contact
- [email protected]
Short listing
An exhibition resurrected from the original WordPress archive of the Godot Gallery.
Full exhibition text
Tamás Szikora
the exhibition at Godot Gallery
2001. June 13, Wednesday 20 June 29 – until.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday from 10 to 18 o’clock. At a different time, prior arrangement is required.
on my 322-52-72 telephone number.
GODOT GALLERY-
The Creator's Freedom – The Collector's Passion
...Its main motif is a geometrical shape that can be conceived in a recognisable form (box?, compartment?), and its variable possibilities – it seems – are almost inexhaustible, both compositionally and in terms of painterly techniques or style.
Katalin Néray
art historian
...They all share the same traits … (Szikora, Elsworth Kelly, Frank Stella) – the economics of using very tight forms, and the inner creative independence and freedom that creates the outer, rigid forms. (...)
Passuth Krisztina
..The dramatic nature of its brushwork is counterbalanced by the daring, almost impossible‑looking perspectives, or by the tension created by the divergence between the perspective and the shape of the canvas.. (...)
Gábor Pataki
deputy director
MTA Art History Research Group
Tamas Szikora
1943 Nyíregyháza
1962-68 Kalinyin Polytechnic, Faculty of Engineering, Leningrad
1970‑76 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Budapest
1977–80 Derkovits scholarship
1982-91, Professor at Esztergom Teacher Training College
1985–86 Lecturer at the Faculty of Industrial Art
From 1990 he has been a member of the Szentendre Old Artists' Colony.
From 1992 to 93, supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Paris Cité des…
Works at Arts.
1994 Munkácsy Award
From 1994 on, he spends annually between 2 and 3 months in Paris at the Cité des Arts, upon invitation.
In 1997, it also wins the Pollock – Krasner Foundation.
Works in private and public collections:
Ludwig Museum – Hungarian National Gallery – Ministry of Culture – Petőfi Literary Museum – St Stephen's King Museum, Székesfehérvár – Deák Collection, Székesfehérvár – Modern Picture Gallery, Pécs – Ferenczi Museum, Szentendre – Jósa András Museum, Nyíregyháza – Foreign Trade Bank – OTP Bank – AB‑Aegon Insurance – Royal Hungarian Academy – Archive of the Cité Internationale des Arts – Déry Museum, Debrecen – Fischer Collection – Vass László Collection – Merics
Two boxes / 128x162 cm, pastel, cardboard – 1999
Two boxes of negatives / 124 × 93 cm, pastel, card –2000
Large pastel yellow background / 69 x 79 centimetres, pastel, cardboard – 2000
Small pastel with a yellow background / 67 x 58 centimetres, pastel, card – 2000
Pastel, dark silhouette / 65 x 115 cm, pastel, cardboard -2000
Magical box / 119 x 237 cm, mixed technique - 1994
Box Shadow (owned by Kristina Passuth) / 69 × 79 cm, pastel, cardboard – 2000
A box with a yellow background / 50 × 97,5 cm, oil on panel – 2000
Small oil in a lilac tone / 62x52 cm, oil, cardboard –2000
Small frosted painting / 68x36 cm, oil, canvas — 2000
A box in red / 109 x 88 centimetres acrylic, cardboard –1999