Artist Information:
Arpad Forgo
Budapest,
Hungary
Member Since: Feb 2007
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Artist Statement:
In my earlier works I was
examining even and odd
numbers, rhytms, angularity
and roundness, regular and
irregular shapes. Nature and
natural phenomena has always
inspired me the most, though
– as I was grown up in the
Middle East – meeting
decorative and ornamentic Arts
had an inevitable effect on my
visual approach.
In my first, „Bales”
series of paintings I was
looking for abstract features
in landscapes: I was testing
the contrary of using organic
surfaces with geometric
shapes, between 1996 and 2003.
In this period I found oil on
canvas as the proper technique
to create thick paint-welts
that later became my
felicitous device.
In the „Desire for the
one” set (2004-2005) I dealt
with numbers and cardinality,
the relation between one and
more, one and two, one and
three . Keeping the works’
handicraft features in order
to have subjective and
personal reinterpretation of
the numbers I strived for
formal reduction.
In the „Dice” series
(2005), after experimenting
with different techniques I
streched wooden and paper
elements under canvas for
enhancing plasticity,
resulting in a relief-like
surface. I’ve chosen dice as
the subject of my expedition,
because both the fact, that
this object depicts numbers
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Arpad Forgo's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Arpad Forgo's Portfolio. Browse Forgo's body of work: In my earlier works I was examining even and odd numbers, rhytms, angularity and roundness, regular and irregular shapes. Nature and natural phenomena has always inspired me the most, though – as I was grown up in the Middle East – meeting decorative and ornamentic Arts had an inevitable effect on my visual approach.
In my first, „Bales” series of paintings I was looking for abstract features in landscapes: I was testing the contrary of using organic surfaces with geometric shapes, between 1996 and 2003. In this period I found oil on canvas as the proper technique to create thick paint-welts ... |
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