Zoltán Kovács

Sculptor

I N T R O D U C T I O N I’ve graduated from the Sculpture department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2018. During my academic years I began studying geometry as a means of visual representation in sculpture. The principal theme of my works is the functional representation of the perception of infinity. The abstract, geometric forms open the door to a pictorialness which is not immediately understood; but such coded content that can’t be decoded simply with the knowledge of form linguistics, but only collectively with intuitive, emotional approach. My works, besides sensory perceptions, present opportunities for interpretation and further thinking along geometrical orthodoxies. I’m continuously toying with the inseparable link between sculpture and space. This link is present in my structures through interferences and intersections. My creative methods can be characterized by a constructive approach: I make no sketches but from the start, solve the spatial controversies by manipulating shapes. Sometimes I treat even the mock-ups as completed works and either keep them as they are or graft them into a different material. My statuettes are mostly serried shells, or carved structures blossoming out of stone or wood. Planar surfaces are of great significance to me, because they demonstrate that a statue not only supplants but partitions off a region of space. These mostly manifest al closed shapes, which are imbibed by space through a kind of “window” or it can befall that by opening the integument we can stare into it’s intimate, inner space. COOPERATING: Molnár Ani Galéria

Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem (MKE)

Budapest