ARCHITEXTURES
Zoltán Popovits is a Hungarian-Finnish-American sculptor, jewelry designer, and honorary doctor of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest. He is known as a contemporary sculptor from Helsinki to Denver and from Budapest to Eger. He is the creator of the 56 Memorial in Denver and the Great Book sculpture in Eger. In his works, layers of stories can be deciphered alongside the interaction of natural materials, organic forms and surfaces, their coexistence and interweaving into new qualities. For him, the texture of the material is the canvas.
Dr. Csaba Rosta S. is an architect and artist who has traveled extensively in Finland. Most people know him for his iconic buildings and his gallery boat that once floated on the Rába River. On this occasion, the exhibition will focus primarily on his non-architectural concepts (ships, canoe target towers, music pavilions, a museum made of industrial objects, furniture, electronic sculptures, and jewelry). His visions, created at the intersection of fine and applied arts, reflect on the roots of architectural space and form with a characteristic architectural flavor and form-making, as a thesis independent of scale and material.
The two exhibitors have maintained a kind of mentor-friend relationship since 1991. In 1994, Zoltán Popovits introduced himself to the Hungarian public with his exhibition Metal Sounds on the RAS Gallery Ship, designed and managed by Rosta. During their ongoing intellectual “voyage,” a jewelry competition, sculptures, and several other concepts were born, inspired by Zoltán Popovits’ personal artistic voice and use of materials. The current exhibition is a large “texture print” of the inspirational map of works created during their more than 30-year friendship.
