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Looking Round a Different Corner
November 20 – December 31, 2015
Artist Reception: Friday, November 20, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Anya Tish Gallery is delighted to announce the inaugural Texas solo exhibition of Budapest-based artist Árpád Forgó, titled Looking Round a Different Corner. A progeny of the Hungarian Neo-Avant Garde movement, Forgó constructs subtly kinetic paintings and shaped canvases that embody the concepts of cardinality, unity, division and plasticity.
Traditions of Suprematism, Concrete Art, and Spatialism are discernable in each of Forgó’s polished, minimal works, promoting universality through deft reduction to the essentials of form, color, and line. Retreating from the classical handling of paint, the artist uses the medium for its flexibility, and augments the canvas itself into twisting segments and three-dimensional, wall dependent forms. Forgó’s shaped canvases are supported by several carefully constructed stretchers, undulating in concert to and from the wall while emphasizing the artist’s exceptional craftsmanship. Statuesque shapes emerge from the canvas, simultaneously creating both peace and tension on the surface. These fluid relationships between the whole and the segment become the crux of Forgó’s practice. Each piece reveals abundant variations of compositions as it is moved about, creating what the artist calls “illusory drift”, and initiating a malleable space that gradually unfolds and transforms.
Árpád Forgó has exhibited in many international venues across four continents, among them the Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy; Hun Gallery, New York City, New York; X-Power Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; SNO Gallery, Sydney Australia; and Iletisim Kitabevi Gallery, Ismir, Turkey. Forgó has been awarded with numerous grants and residencies, including the Visegrad Artist Residency, Warsaw, Poland; the Visual Artist Grant from the National Cultural Fund of Hungary; the Artist Grant from Can Serrat International Art Center, El Bruc, Spain; and most recently a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.
