Gáspár Riskó – Fusion
Open to the public:
November 4 – December 13, 2016
Monday - Thursday: 10.00 - 16.00
Friday: 10.00 - 14.00
Venue: Hungarian Institute, Bratislava
Facing existential uncertainty due to noetic, political and economic oppression in a modern and accelerated behaviour is a contemporary phenomenon. Aside from the information flow I observed terrains of my social relations, which are mostly relevant to my stateless feelings and rambling thoughts. I realized this operation as a mirroring effect to myself, consequently it motivated me to participate personally in the sequence of images. Such process asks and encourages identical questions about me relating to the world. Under the surface of my ostensible character I confront retentive embedded emotions and vertiginous thoughts from my subconscious which need to be untangled. Since my early ages numerous experience caused negative blocks in my being. Fears layered onto them and paralyzed my personality’s natural growth. To find myself I had to recognize I was disoriented and vanished in a surrounding circulation of activities and events those were out of control. This recognition formed a base of understanding things rather correctly compare to the past. I started to search more precisely in the overwhelming chaos which issues to solve. In this manner reality in general still has to be massively compensated with denudative visual solutions regarding to mental emptiness. Furthermore powerful walls of the colonised and illusionary mind of the modern age restrain effectively against spontaneous being. Abstractions as well as surreal descriptions are as important as ever to balance the confusion and distortion of modern time and accomplish independence from captivity of consciousness.
Gáspár Riskó
Gáspár Riskó’s exhibition Fusion offers the opportunity of immersing in ourselves, in unity with nature and the landscapes of periphery. While the elements shaping the impersonal spaces of the outskirts reveal their relationship to each other, showing their identity with themselves is much more powerful. Their aloneness is lawful and part of their nature. They are not bleak but exist lonely in their own glow. This complete compliance gives the sensation of reality and beyond, similarly to when his own hidden presence becomes one with the landscape. The photographer shows his soul along these places through his own method of observation, getting dissolved in perception. These are sleek, almost bare, and stately neighborhoods with hardly any sign of life, yet dense content. In this apparent duality, he raises his questions about existence and passing, while he also creates image-answers that result in more questions.
Gabriella Csizek, curator
Gáspár Riskó
(b. Budapest, 1978) I studied cinematography at the School of Visual Arts in Sydney, Australia in the early 2000s. Upon my return to Hungary, I have been working as a photographer. In 2011, I have begun a long-term photography project focusing on human nature in connection with the interwoven relationship between social stratification and natural impacts.
Solo exhibitions:
2016 MIA Photo Fair – TOBE Gallery. Milan, Italy / The Mall – Porta Nuova Varesine
2015 Impasse, Budapest, Hungary / FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture
2015 Offset, Budapest, Hungary / TOBE Gallery
2014 Impasse, Budapest, Hungary / House of the European Union
Group exhibitions:
2016 REGI/ON, Studio of Young Photographers Hungary, Kalocsa, Hungary / City Gallery
2016 Pictures & Pixels | National Salon, Budapest, Hungary / Kunsthalle
2015 Heritage: Socialism and after, Kecskemét, Hungary / Hungarian Museum of Photography
2015 BLU, Budapest, Hungary / TOBE Gallery
2015 Water, Milano Expo, Italy / Hungarian Pavilon selected by the Hungarian House of Photography
2014 Budapest our metropolis, Istambul, Turkey / Hungarian Cultural Institute
2014 Photographies Suisses et Hongroises, Genéve, Suisse / Nest Gallery
2014 Landscape Experience, Budapest, Hungary / Bartók32 Gallery
2014 All Is, Budapest, Hungary / Latarka Gallery
2014 Landscape Experience, Photo Biennale, Esztergom, Hungary / Castle Museum
2014 Studio of Young Photographers, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary / Art Bázis Gallery
2013 Water and Future – Budapest Water Summit 2013, Budapest, Hungary / Mai Manó House Gallery
2013 Present Continous, Budapest, Hungary / Mai Manó House Gallery
2013 Close Encounters, Wien, Austria / KultureAxe Gallery
2012 Art Market Fair, Budapest, Hungary / Millenáris Convention Center
2012 Innen Publications, Budapest, Hungary / Labor Gallery
Scholarships, awards:
2015 Scholarship of Hungarian National Cultural Fund
2014 Photoport International Portfolio Review, Budapest / Best Portfolio award
2013 Photoport International Portfolio Review, Budapest / Special Prize
2012 Photo Ireland Festival / shortlist
2009 Scholarship of Hungarian National Cultural Fund
Works in public collections:
Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét, Hungary
Hungarian House of Photography, Budapest, Hungary
Publications:
2016 Gaia Conti, Le eco del passato, #AImagazine-Fall2016, Greta Edizioni / published in Italy
2016 Slow melancholy by Rita Somosi in Art Photography Magazine # 2016/1 / published in Budapest
2014 Art Photography Magazine # 2013/4 / published in Budapest
2013 Present Continous Book # 7 / The Hungarian House of Photography
2013 Lodown Magazine # 85 / Berlin
2012 Zug Magazine # 3 / published by Innen – Budapest, Geneva