20.09-12.10.2019

To jeszcze nie koniec lata / Summer is not over yet

Árpád Forgó - obiekty

Wystawa organizowana w ramach wydarzenia Warsaw By Art 2019

Árpád Forgó, współczesny węgierski artysta pojawił się na warszawskiej scenie artystycznej w 2011 roku. "Summer is not over yet", jego trzecia solowa wystawa w Galerii Milano, prezentuje  najnowsze prace wykonane metodą formowania płótna, gdzie bazę tworzy konstrukcja i podziały siatki. Te trójwymiarowe obiekty ucieleśniają koncepcję pustki przeciwstawionej ukształtowanej formie przestrzennej. Stypendysta Fundacji Pollock-Krasner niedawno uczestniczył w programie studyjnym Fundacji Josefa i Anni Albers w USA.

Hungarian contemporary artist, Árpád Forgó, is present in the Warsaw art scene since 2011. "Summer is not over yet" is his third solo show at Milano Gallery, introducing recently made grid-based, shaped canvas works. These object-like spatial pieces embody the concept of the void opposed to the volume. Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee, recently participated in the studio program of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in the USA.


Wystawy indywidualne

2018    
Beyond the Frame, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Phase, Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary

2017    
Tales from the first floor, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

Second Round, Milano Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2016    
Transitions, with Alicja Gaskon, Platán Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Color Kitchen, with Edith Lundebrekke, BABEL Art Space, Trondheim, Norway

2015    
Looking Round a Different Corner, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA

2014    
Meeting of Parallel Thoughts, with Jerzy Grochocki, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Inner Space, Milano Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2013    
Polarity, with Riki Mijling, Susan Andrews, SNO Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2011    
Warsaw Variations, Hungarian Cultural Institute, Warsaw, Poland

2010    
Blind Date, Hungarian Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium

Forgometry, Gallery Suez, The Hague, The Netherlands

2009    
Hommage a Octagon, Galerija Laterna, Crnomelj, Slovenia

2008    
Bimanal, The Geshwin Hotel Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2006    
Ramifications, Merlin, Budapest, Hungary

2005    
Dice, Retorta Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Desire for the one, Trafik Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2003    
Bales, Iletisim Kitabevi Gallery, Izmir, Turkey


Pokazy zbiorowe

2019    
Galeria Milano 30 years, Milano Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

BAUHAUS 100. Programme For The Now ? Contemporary Viewpoints, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

BAUHAUS 100, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2018    
Abstract, Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary

International Symposium, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

2017    
Stories To Be Told, raum2810 gallery, Bonn, Germany

Geometric Generations, FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest

Light Positions, Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary

Das Esszimmer - space for art+, Weltraum Pop-up, Basel, Switzerland

Made in Paint, Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY, USA

Forms of Everydayness, Latarka Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2016    
Planar and Spatial Reflections, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

x-play, Viltin Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2015    
Spazi Aperti XIIIa Edizione 2015, Accademia di Romania, Rome, Italy

2014    
In Glorious Color by Saatchi Art, Griffin Gallery, London, UK

2010   
2^nd International Biennial of Painters and Sculptors, Milesi Palace, Split, Croatia

2009    
10^th Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI, USA

Paintpresent, LAL at Loudoun House, Lexington, KY, USA

2008    
Grand Small Works Show, The FUEL House, Philadelphia, PA, USA     

WHITE/BOX/GROUP/SHOW2, West Tampa Center for the Arts, Tampa, FL, USA

Premio Profilo d?Arte 2008, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy

2007    
Mantras of nature, 100King Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2003 
Leonardo Da Vinci Contemporary Art Biennale, Rome, Italy / 3rd Prize


PROGRAMY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

2019    
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, USA

2018    
The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China

Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

2017
Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary

2016    
The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation, New Berlin, NY, USA

Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway

2015    
Hungarian Academy in Rome, Italy

Vermont Studio Center, VT, USA

2013    
Druskininkai Artists' Residence, Druskininkai, Lithuania

Sydney Non Objective Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney, Australia

2011    
Visegrad Artist Residency Program, Heppen Transfer Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2008    
Can Serrat International Art Center, El Bruc, Spain

Gershwin Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY, USA



Árpád Forgó: Summer is not over yet

Hungarian mid-career contemporary artist, Árpád Forgó has been present in the Warsaw art scene since 2011. He had spent three month in the city as a Visegrad Artist Residency Program grantee, exhibited twice at the Hungarian Cultural Institute and at Milano Gallery. In Budapest, he had participated in Polish - Hungarian group shows at Platán Gallery, exhibition space of Polish Institute.

"Summer is not over yet" is his third solo show with Milano Gallery, introducing recently made grid-based, shaped canvas works.

Árpád Forgó is interested in experimental painting, in the question of broadening the interpretation of non-figurative panel painting. Basic elements of his works are the proportion, shape, colour and surface.

His revolving composition practice is building from pre-defined-shape, small-scale panels or modules. Led by intuition he builds works by rotating, constructing, deconstructing these modules until reaching an ideal composition, body of work.

At first, Forgó thinks without colours, he builds the form, and then experiments with colours and surfaces.

The exhibited object-like spatial pieces embody the concept of the void opposed to the volume.

Symmetry and asymmetry, rectangular and curved shapes, unfolded structure, relation of the whole and the segments are all important features of the grid set. 

Titles of the pieces do not narrate, letters stand for initials of colours, and numbers refer to the number of units within the work.  

Árpád was invited to present his works to the prestigious Anya Tish Gallery in Houston, he was selected into the Saatchi Art-curated Glorious Colour group exhibition at Griffin Gallery, London, and exhibited with exceptional artists, such as Edith Lundebrekke (Norway), Jerzy Grochocki (Poland), Riki Mijling (The Netherlands) and Susan Andrews (Australia). Currently his shaped canvas works are shown at Bauhaus100. Program for the Now ? Contemporary Viewpoints exhibition at Ludwig Museum, Budapest.

During the past ten years, artist-in-residence programs influenced a lot Árpád?s artistic concept. Select residencies include The Vermont Studio Center, USA; Sydney Non Objective Contemporary Art Projects, Australia; The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai and the Mark Rothko Art Center, Latvia. In 2019, he spent two months at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut, USA and he has been awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for 2019-2020.