Biography

 

 

Born in Budapest, Hungary 1958. I left communist Hungary the age of 23 and migrated to Australia as a political refugee in 1983 since then I live in Australia. I have been a practising artist and sculptor for the past thirty five years; have taken part in several group and solo exhibitions. Also designed and implemented a range of public art projects as well as have work in private and public art collections in Australia and overseas. I studied at the Fine and Applied Art Collage in Budapest, majored in as a Ceramic Designer and Maker. Also have a Visual Art Degree from the University of Southern Queensland majored in sculpture, Australia. And completed my Master of Contemporary Art Degree at the University of Tasmania.   

 

Artist statement

 

Due to my experiences and social background, I am interested in creating moments of displacement, through the use of contradictory logic, paradoxes and broken narratives.  My sculptures reference recognisable architectural details, but the slippage of scale and the manipulation of space create an illusion of irrationality and impossibility, resulting in an alienation of the familiar.  What emerge are unknown spaces and illusions, which force us to confront multiple possibilities and ultimately acknowledge the space of transit between the object and the viewer.

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“The new condition of the object must be between in an imaginable sense as well: it is something which is almost this, or almost that, but not quite either.  The displacing experience is uncertainty of partial knowing”.

 

                                         Peter Eisenman

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György Szerencsi