Spiritual Faces #1

András Szirtes known mainly as a movie director. It is not a surprise as his movies were shown on the Hungarian Film Festival from the seventies on... more

by Andras Szirtes

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25.000 x 20.000 cm.

Title

Spiritual Faces #1

Artist

Andras Szirtes

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Photograph - Black And White Rc Print With One Of A Kind Chemical Treatment

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András Szirtes known mainly as a movie director. It is not a surprise as his movies were shown on the Hungarian Film Festival from the seventies on and he won numerous awards. In 1998 he also got the prestigious Balázs Béla Award. In 2009 he was part of the exhibition in Műcsarnok (Art Hall) that showed the fifty years of Balázs Béla Studio.

In the Before Exhibition Gallery Szirtes András is introducing an other facet of his work. In the last five years the artist was taking portraits of women with his large format wood camera, and during processing he was maipulating the images, solarized them, made them faded and colored them brown. Thats how he tired to bring out the „spiritual” faces of his sitters.

The end result is more than four hundred images. At the exhibition that opens on the 6th of July the viewers can see a selection of this work. On the images, in the captured eternal look of the sitters we can discover the demon and the angel, the masculin and the feminin, the child, the adult and the old at the same time. It is almost irrational, as the multi-layered personality of the individuals come to the surface on the images.

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August 30th, 2010