Exhibitions

Apolka Erős, Munkácsy Prize-winning sculptor, is currently exhibiting her latest sculptures and watercolours, which are characterized by a blend of innovation and respect for tradition at the same time, as well as discipline and instinctive, gestural expression. In her work, she focuses on formal issues, yet she is also concerned with unravelling spiritual content. She explores existential questions, choosing themes and concepts from mythology and art history to address them, and reinforces these through her titles. Through her works, she reflects on herself and our bipolar world; she emphasizes the vulnerability and transience of the individual, while at the same time highlighting the eternity of the soul. The symbolic systems of reference and the multifaceted meanings of the sculptures are important to her. Apolka Erős is a perpetually experimental artist, a trait evident both in her sculptural techniques and in her blending of various materials. Durable, solid materials—such as high-strength stones and bronze—and their craftsmanship symbolize strength and eternity, while soft, draping, easily malleable, and fragile textiles; brocade, leather, and faux leather, as well as creative methods involving sewing and tailoring, represent softness and changeability. By blending these elements, she has created composite-style achrolite sculptures that can be interpreted as experiments in interpretation or as sculptural paraphrases. She explores the theoretical background of all this in her doctoral research at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts.

Réka Fazakas, curator of the exhibition