Menyus Szabó

ARTIST: Menyus Szabó

ABOUT THE ARTIST: 

Menyhért Szabó has been experimenting with the possibilities of the sculptural utilization of thin rubber shells, primarily through the study of the human body. The central theme of his sculpture is the human figure and face. However, he reinterprets the classical theme with a specific approach, formal language and choice of materials. He relies on the traditional methods of sculpting portraits for his work, depicting large heads, with the difference that he shapes the various faces, enlarging them to a frustratingly large scale, deploying a somewhat classical, reserved and distant attitude in form. The sculptures, modelled initially from clay, were only intermediate stages in the creative process. They were brought into existence only to be destructed, as their sole purpose was to provide a mold from which he would take a rubber negative, which he subsequently exhibited, installing and hanging these on the wall. The result was the distortion of perfection, the freefall of a detached, cold attitude into deep drama.

The forms of the face collapse under their own weight, letting the beauty and exaltation of the idealized figures disappear, leaving only occasional fragments referring to the lost original of the skinned figure. His notions concerning sculpture stem from the formal traditions of classical art history.

However, his methods connected to spatial expression raise contemporary questions: how can one use the sculptural tools of realism to describe the contradictions of present-day existence and self definition? His monumental, overarching sculptural response to this issue highlights precisely the numerous contradictions, as his installative groups of works are the imprints of the relativity of three dimensional sculpture, of the plasticity of well-known structures, and the fragile nature of perfection.

REPRESENTING GALLERY: Einspach Fine Art & Photography

ABOUT THE REPRESENTING GALLERY:

After closing Art+Text Budapest and followed that by a two-year long resting period, the founder of the gallery, Gábor Einspach returned to the art market with a new exhibition place founded with dr. Barbara Czapolai, named Einspach Fine Art & Photography, opening in June 2021. The gallery is located near to the Batthány Eternal Flame, on the ground floor of one of the finest palaces of Pest. The place brings a yet unknown, new quality to the Budapest gallery scene, with its own 5,5-meter inner height, its delicately renovated premises and with its enormous glass showcase facing the street.

The business profile of Einspach Fine Art & Photography includes both the most significant Post-War artists and young contemporary creators, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and photography too. The gallery regularly participates in prestigious international art fairs such as Paris Photo or Frieze Masters in London.

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