Art on Paper Brussels 2023
Faur Zsófi Gallery (Budapest, Hungary) cordially invites you to the ART ON PAPER International Drawing Fair in Brussels. We are happy to introduce you to our Gallery and the participating artists represented between October 5-8. at booth NºB29 of the Gare Maritime - Tour&Taxis.
Founded 22 years ago, Faur Zsófi Gallery's primary goal is to promote and integrate Hungarian contemporary art into the international art scene. It aims to achieve this by its increasingly active presence at foreign art fairs and by building partnerships with foreign galleries. On one hand, Faur Zsófi Gallery intends to address the widest possible appreciative audience, as artworks show their true colours in a living, crowded silence full of people; on the other hand, it aspires to be an ever-bustling, spiritual and aesthetic medium, a "cultural space", where people return to over and over again. In order to promote artists and contemporary art scene as widely as possible, in 2006 it expanded its profile to include publishing.
Drawings have always played a tremendous role in the Faur Zsófi Gallery’s repertoire, thus Art on Paper is an exceptional occasion for presenting this overlooked, but up and coming artistic orientation. This year our Gallery was the first host of EVOCATIONS - A Nomadic Exhibition Project: an international, drawing exhibition traveling to the Palazzo Ducale of Genova and several European cities, curated by Lóránd Hegyi, former director of art museums in Vienna, Saint-Étienne, Naples and Singapore.
Although all the artists in the EVOCATIONS exhibition - including those exhibiting at Art on Paper International Drawing Fair - construct their own micro narratives, with works of distinctive styles on various topics, they also contribute to a larger, cohesive constellation.
“The immediacy and sensitivity of the drawings, in which thought meets extreme dynamism of imagination, and in which the pictorial narrative appears naturally, with a spontaneity that is self-evident, the expression of the spirit of the age represented by problematic reality of current times. The world expressed in the works are intensely intimate, emotionally charged, and is most reminiscent of the spontaneity of direct speech and gesticulation.” / Lóránd Hegyi
About the ART ON PAPER International Drawing Fair:
Art on Paper, a prestigious yearly art fair founded in 2015, is dedicated to showcasing the diversity and quality of contemporary drawing practices. Among amateur and professional audiences alike, the fair has received considerable interest Europe-wide. This year it displays the pop-up shows of 64 collaborating galleries, including the Faur Zsófi Gallery, which is participating for the second time after last year, honored to be the only Hungarian participant.
About the artists:
The Faur Zsófi Gallery has always strived to increase its global presence to promote unique artists abroad and share their vision with the world. For the occasion of this fair, we partnered up with four remarkable talents - Anya Belyat-Giunta, Áron Gábor, Ferenc Forrai, and Christoph Mayer - who represent two generations of significant artists. Here is what you have to know about them!
Anya Belyat-Giunta (1975) was born in Russia but fled the turbulent atmosphere of the dissolving Soviet Union with her family. Moving and training around Austria, Italy, and the United States, she adopted a dream-like visual language to tackle the paradoxes of existence. The drawings of Anya Belyat-Giunta resemble ambiguous constructions that fuse body and soul, strange architectures, and the landscapes of collective memory. Her strange and ambiguous universe questions the enigma of existence that lies somewhere between catastrophe and renaissance, order and chaos, body and landscape, dark matter, and pink flesh.
Áron Gábor (1954) is a Hungarian painter, graphic artist, installation artist, sculptor, and video artist whose works are collected by museums worldwide. While his technique varies, his world of forms is easily recognizable throughout different media. His drawings often feature indefinable faces or vision-like heads that hint at the emergence of a new entity, something compact and real.
Ferenc Forrai (1974) is a conceptual artist from Hungary, who combines observation and intuition in the complex visual systems that form the basis of his series. Most recently, his work has dealt with the enigma of time while drawing on an archaic world order that differentiates the elements of earth, fire, air, and water. For the exhibition in Brussels, Ferenc is preparing a site-specific, metaphorical installation titled Waterline.
Christoph Mayer (1969) is an Austrian painter. The contemporary theatricality in Christoph Mayer's work, shaped by urban subcultures, bears romantic, pathetic, and at the same time neurotic features through a permanent reinterpretation of the pictorial elements and their structural role. Although these images appear enigmatic, irrational, and chaotic, they are held together by an immanent cohesive force that maintains graphic homogeneity despite the eclectic heterogeneity of the visual material.
Check out the works of these four exciting artists, hope to see you in Brussels!
Date: 05-08.10.2023 11-7 pm (public days: 06-08.10.2023)
Address: Gare Maritime - Tour&Taxis, Rue Picard 11. B-1000 Brussels
For further information please visit the event page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/eMp7poaiU6qLpKD2/
For further information please visit the webpage of Art on Paper: https://artonpaper.be/en/galleries/2023