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22/9/2010

Attila Szucs

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art is pleased to present The Hidden and the Revered, Hungarian artist Attila Szűcs’ first solo show in the United States, with an exhibition of carefully painted canvases alluding to the assumed reality of the generally depicted by revealing its representation as a mere diversion for our cognitive system and collective intelligence.

Technically and conceptually, in Szűcs’ paintings, information filters through a smoke screen of delicately painted layers covering individuals, animals and objects with a soft blanket of white light, forcing the audience to adjust sensorially to the details of the narrative.

Szűcs leads the viewer through an initially mundane, subsequently odd and alien territory into the depths of the collective unconscious, guiding the senses gently deeper into a world concealed from the human eye.

Using singled out sources from news and mass media, Szűcs stages compositions void of overt explanations, causing a sense of memory loss, angst and alienation rather than the satisfaction of a shared collective memory of imagery.

By magnifying the presence of individual subjects and objects isolated from their historical or pictorial context and insulated by the absence of ad hoc references, Szűcs charges through an uncharted visual repertoire, conscientiously laying the grounds for new framework formations.

Ultimately, Szűcs’ omissions on the canvas leave space for speculation and imagination, providing the viewer with a platform to reconstruct the reality of the depicted and the discourse of the hidden and the revered.

Attila Szűcs was born in Miskolc, Hungary and currently lives and works in Budapest where he is a professor at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and one of the leading painters of his generation. He has shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including exhibitions at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands. His works are also held in permanent collections such as Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; and Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece. He is currently included in the group exhibition After the Fall from September 19, 2010 – July 26, 2011 at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY.

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Until October 23, 2010

Dana Melamed
Black Tide

With this exhibition, Melamed expands her exploration of the relationship between her unique technique, the materials she applies and her theoretical approach to a subject as old as the human race — the conflict between nature’s own creations and manmade interventions.
Melamed constructs a visual world of drawn and collaged imagery, mostly sourced from digital archives forming a pictorial quilt, consequently transforming it with a blowtorch into a densely crusted, layered surface born out of fire.

Using a blowtorch to melt her materials into one another, Melamed fuses sheet metal, Cinefoil, photographic film, acrylic paint and industrial waste into a complex amalgam of textures — left only void of color, but for the singe marks of her instrument. Her intricate black and white palette produces a wide spectrum of hues, provoking a sense of a full palate on a surface, woven together by paint, glue and fire. By transforming a regular blowtorch into a brush that mixes materials rather than colors, Melamed demonstrates the ability of an alchemist with an aptitude for using the element of fire to change the consistency of matter.


Image: Attila Szucs, Three women, 2009. Oil on canvas 39 x 47 in. (100 x 120 cm)

Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
547 West 27th Street 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 to 6:00 PM or by appointment.

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