TAMÁS KÖRÖSÉNYI

born in Budapest, 1953
lives and works in Budapest

Tamás Körösényi belonged to the most famous and the most original contemporary sculptors in Hungary. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (Iván Szabó) and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Bruno Gironcoli), he absolved a few study stays in Austria and Germany (Herder stipendium) and he gained a number of national and international awards. From the year 1999 he is the head of the department of sculpting of the University of Fine Arts in Budapest.
Tamás Körösényi entered the art scene in the 70s of the last century and from the beginning he surveys the borders of sculpting. Until the beginning of the 80s artworks with figural character were created as well as in the style of pop-art, minimal-art and conceptual art (Drill, 1978; Still-life, 1980 – 82; Lunchboxes, 1982). In the year 1982 the Giacometti’s series was created, which set the direction of the development of Körösényi’s works with the idea of a mask or the idea of masking (Arsenal, 1983). The figures, created by the artist are in a certain stage of forming consciously unfinished and covered with a cloak or drapery. The figures show the artist’s relationship to the figural tradition and simultaneously indicate the direction of the creation’s development in which the drapery or covers become more and more dominant parts and even the carriers of the contents of the artworks. In the nineties Körösényi’s new sculptor’s idea started to shape emphasising the system of relationships. Its basis he formulated with a language of organic forms (Fügung).
(Zsófia Kiss-Szemán)

BIOGRAPHY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013

Art lives!, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest

2010

Sculptures, Kisterem, Budapest

2007

To Touch, to Move…,Kisterem, Budapest
Moji duchovia, Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Pálffy Palace, Bratislava

2005

My Ghosts, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest

1997

Articulations, Ludwig Museum, Budapest

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

Kreuzungspunkte Linz. Junge Kunst und Meisterwerke, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
Tolerance in Art, Danubiana, Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava

2008

Dimension Fragile, Österreichische Papiermacher Museum, Steyrermühl

2007

Hungarian Art, Danubiana, Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava

2004

Göbel/Klimo/Körösényi, Galerie Gut Gasteil, Prigglitz

2002

Vision Image and Perception, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest

1998

Ungarn; Avangarde im 20. Jahrhundert, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz