7 February – 11 February, 2024
Exhibition
SZABOLCS VERES’s paintings primarily draw their inspiration from the artist’s raw memory, as well as candid personal photographs, and artworks throughout history. Images spawn from a flawed recollection and destruction through a process which foregrounds spontaneity, layering, erasure, and dynamic composing. The sketch-like technique of alla prima, where pencil or oil paint is applied in decisive yet rapid strokes aim to capture the movement of the figures and the angles of the mind’s eye. The figures, objects, and landscapes that inhabit the canvases are therefore hazy in their edges, with distinct features and energized movements fading into obfuscation. In keeping with the theme of EJES, Veres brings his figure and objects to life in their most intimate, sensual, brooding, yet playful selves. Still objects are imbued with motion, and the facelessness of his characters embody more than just one.
Artist Bio
Szabolcs Veres (b. 1983, Satu Mare, Romania) is a painter currently working and living in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is part of the Cluj School of painters alongside well known artists like Adrian Ghenie and Victor Man. He received his PhD, MFA, and BFA at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Veres has had solo exhibitions at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany; at Bazis - The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj Romania and Galeria Radio Cluj, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His work has been featured in several group exhibitions in New York, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, and Italy.