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The three-day Paths Crossing workshop will take place on the island of Suomenlinna, Helsinki December 15–17, 2011. Participants will present and discuss their ongoing practice in a variety of formats, including one-to-one consultations, presentations and round-tables. Some...

For her solo exhibition Wearable Nations - European Outfits at The Factory of Art and Design, Małgorzata Markiewicz presents a new take on the national costume. The artist has created a new series of outfits for citizens of the EU...

Sunday is the title of Zsolt Tibor’s (b. 1973) exhibition at 00130Gallery, open from November 30 to December 11, 2011. In this show, the Budapest-based artist examines what he understands as ‘layers’ of the phenomenon of the ‘hobby’ and the notion of the amateur artist...

During the Open Studio at HIAP Suomenlinna visitors can gain insight into the working methods behind several of the works, which will be presented in Zsolt Tibor's upcoming exhibition Sunday, opening on November 29 at 00130Gallery in Helsinki. A particular kind of...

Jelena Vesic is an independent curator, art critic, and editor who lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Vesic graduated with a degree in art history from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 2003, has attended the curatorial program de Appel in Amsterdam 2004/2005, and is currently a PhD...

In partnership with four North European artist-in-residence centres HIAP is pleased to announce the 19 visual artists and art professionals from the new and the applicant EU Member States, who will participate in the Paths Crossing Production and Research Residency Project in the years 2011–2012...

The website of the Paths Crossing project provides information about the project and its development throughout its implementation. The organisers as well as the selected artists and art professionals are presented on the site, which offers a platform to communicate the challenges, experiences...

Zsolt Tibor

resident at: 
HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme (FI)
lives in: 
Hungary
born: 
1973

The drawings are just situations, mediums and objects of viewing; instruments of perceptions and exploration asking to put them together on different levels of the receptor.
It is a continuous work, a kind of re/creation of spontaneous situations. Detecting,  working in the edge of the ironic-gag/do-it yourself creation, playing with the illusions and last but not least reflecting on general shallow, superficial perception of nowadays. Building a non-so narrative but kind of iconographic network kaleidoscope…

I examine different phenomena (visual and conceptual habits, layers; seeing/perception, or e.g. the mechanism of the “acquisition”; human behaviours, identity, habits, hierarchy etc.) in these through the interference or getting into situations of elements, as well as I seek a possible analysis of these.

The works based on each other in a number of point-of-views, as well lifting-across certain elements, or applying similar (“sign-board of my trade” ironic topic) “handcraft technologies”.