szigeticsongor

ABOUT

2012-01-26T19:29:00.000+01:00

SZIGETI GÁBOR CSONGOR (intermedia artist, HU)

Homepage: www.szigeticsongor.com

E-mail: info@szigeticsongor.com

Tel: +36-20-346-7459

Szigeti Gábor Csongor (born 1980 in Csíkszereda, Romania) started his studies in his native town as a sculptor, than he moved to Budapest (Hungary) where he studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Graphics and Intermedia Departments. In his diversified work one can find conceptual art, objects, kinetic sculptures, site specific, public artworks, installations, videos. His visual language is mainly inspired by the technical media, scientific discoveries, high tech, low tech, objects from the history of technological evolution and the phenomena of nature. In his art he is preoccupied with the ideas of vision, motion, action, interaction.

EDUCATION

2010-University of Pécs, Faculty of Arts, Doctoral School

2003-2006 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department

2001-Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Graphics Department,

2000-2001 Óbuda Art School, Budapest, Graphics Department

EXHIBITIONS, WORKSHOPS (selected, from 2005)

2005 No Problem – exhibition at Műcsarnok Bistro Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2005 Live Forever – video at the Loop Pool Festival, Oberhausen, Germany

2005 Game - group exhibition, Glasgow, Great Britain

2005 Aspiration for Eternity – video installation, Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic

2006 „loop pool“(Live Forever) shown in the lounge of „club transmediale“ Berlin, Germany

2006 SunNeedle - kinetic sculpture – Max. 10 persons, max. 680 kg. – Intermedia Department – Budapest, Hungary

2006 Memory – installation with Kiss Miklós, The Way 1956-2006, Műcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

2006 Segment III. – contemporary hungarian art exhibition – Taipei, Taiwan

2007 Insideout - video, Loop-Pool festival, Oberhausen, Germany

2007 Mirror box - environmental artwork, Minimum Party Workshop, Kászon, Romania

2007 Bed – salt sculpture – Salt Mine Parajd, Romania

2007 Szegment IV. – contemporary hungarian art exhibition, South Korea

2008 Szegment IV. – contemporary hungarian art exhibition, Marosvásárhely, Romania

2008 50 – FKSE Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2008 Post printmaking - DSA Gallery, Sang-Ri Gallery, Hyundai Gallery, Daejeong (Korea)

2008 HANA projekt – Application for the 2009 Venice Biennale (with the EGGS group)

2009. INTRO – Merlin, Budapest, Hungary

2009 Szegment V. – Vyom Centre for Contemporary Art, Jaipur (India)

2009 Space Impression – Mai Manó Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2009 Affinity – international workshop and exhibition, Szentendre, Hungary

2009 You are standing here – public artwork, Eger, Hungary

2010 LIGHTTREE - 21 dialogues, public artwork, Pécs, Hungary

2010 SCOPE Forest - Geumgang International Nature Art Center, South Korea

2010 DLA 2010 - PTE, MK Gallery, Pécs, Hungary

2010 ARTVENTURA - various galleries, Hungary

2010. SZENTENDRE a GÖDÖRBEN - Gödör Klub, Budapest

2011. TABULA RASA - Mamű Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2011. Segment VI. - Campus Gallery, Yogyakarta, Indonezia

2011. MEGAPIXEL - MAH, Budapest, Hungary

2011. HORN BLOW, Human Balance - Sandarbh Art Residency, Partapur, India

2011. Szocial Bazaar - Stúdió Gallery, Budapest. Hungary

2011. Barriers in your head - TAT Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2011. Socio Media - Videospace, Budapest, Hungary

2011. CAPTURED TIME - MMG Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2011. FIKA, Pécs, Hungary

2011. DLA2011 - Pécs, Hungary - Double self portrait

2011. SPEAKS FOR ITSELF - Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2011. There must be an exit! Media art works from Hungary at the festival Art Stays 9 in Ptuj, Slovenia.

2011. MAGTÁR Projekt - international nature art symposion and exhibition, Bódvaszilas, Hungary

2011. INTERNATIONAL ART CAMP GYERGYÓSZÁRHEGY - Romania

2011. SZENTENDRE a GÖDÖRBEN 2.0 - Gödör Klub, Budapest, Hungary

2011. VELENCE Lake Workshop - Velence, Hungary

2011. ART MARKET BUDAPEST - Videospace Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2011. DEELSTAAT= Extrapool+Sandarbh - workshop and exhibition, Nijmegen, Netherlands

SCOPE INDOOR Videospace

2012-01-25T22:09:00.000+01:00

SCOPE Urban Steel

2012-01-10T12:22:00.000+01:00

FILTER video

2012-01-06T16:13:00.005+01:00

Szigeti Gábor Csongor videómunkája a Szatyor Plazmán - 'Filter'
2012 Január 12. 18.00. megnyitó:

Szigeti Gábor Csongorral Kaposi Dorka, a Szatyor Galéria művészeti asszisztense beszélget
a művész munkásságáról és a kiállított videóról.

Megtekinthető február 29-ig.

Szatyor Bár és Galéria

Bartók Béla út 36., Budapest, Hungary, 1111.

John K Grande about BALANCE projects

2011-11-29T15:15:00.001+01:00

Szigeti Gabor Csongor’s interest in the measure of all things including humans and the way they perceive their environments has been going on for a while. Earlier this year in India (2011) during the Sandarbh Artist’s Residence in Partapur, Rajastan he recycled a balance used for weighing recycled materials to effectively build a new value into the scale’s former function. As a public performative art work Csongor’s Human Balance invited passers-by to be weighed in the balance. Two people on either side tried to achieve a balance while the public asked questions. What is the ultimate purpose of this? Why?
Even earlier, the artist recycled a friend’s discarded and broken artworks. Rewrapped in bandages, and with an electronic balance underneath, the “disguised art” invited visitors to weigh the value of specific parts of the art as a whole. The question of value was raised? What value? Which art?
Csongor has recently experimented with the See Saw concept in Hungary in the forest. Two people were invited to hang from a horizontal tree trunk at either end and try to achieve a human balance that way with more or less success. For the summer of 2011 Hungarian Nature Art Symposium in Bódvaszilas, Csongor originally conceived of gigantesque outdoor seesaw made of a huge tree trunk in the scale of Claes Oldenberg’s object sculptures.
As the present site inside the Granary art was smaller and more concentrated, Csongor adapted his project to create an Infinite Human Scale, a work that recalled the Indian Human Scale but now played with a seemingly endless succession of scales built upon scales. The measure measures the measure. All this in space and time and designed to a human scale. With a sense of irony, and a backward glance at Rene Descartes, Csongor’s sculpture awakens us to the way we unconsciously measure all things. With the trees in their original form with bark exteriors, the piece has a rustic home built low-tech look. There is a ritualistic, almost spiritual connection between the rough look of the art, and the sculptural message of Infinite Balance. This work recalls the Sun Pin (2006) a low high high-tech kinetic sculpture that moved according to the sun’s position in the skies. We are reminded than ancient site specific monuments such as Stonehenge were likewise clocks, measuring devices for our place in the universe. All human thought begins with such primal structural theses. Balance is likewise an essential human impulse. Nature becomes a weighing device. Csongor reminds us a all humans’ actions occur as part of a broader spectrum of nature and evolution, transformation. We are not merely
objectifying the landscapes and nature we transform as we do so, we are also incapable of measuring the effects of what we do to nature or to the resources we depend upon. And so there is a tiny spark of irony to a measuring device that is made of nature and in which humans even can be measured. The message may be we are not the Gods of our own consumption. Instead, the humans are largely experiential creatures who procreate and are motivated by the visuality of perception as an active process we participate in through our daily and eternal actions.
in. John K. Grande: Letting the Landscape In (2011)

NEE NEE JAA JAA

2011-11-11T11:40:00.001+01:00

Interventions made in Nijmegen, Holland, 2011 november,
DeelStaat international art residency at Extrapool.
"Nee" and "Ja" is usually used on post boxes to show
if advertisements are accepted or not.
I expanded this motive as stickers and posters,
and explored it in different new contexts, in which
they could communicate with the people and surroundings,
and got new reading, interpretations.

B!NS (Bang! Number Statistics) project

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B!NS

Bang! Number Statistics project, made in Nijmegen, Holland, 2011 november.

I took some of the biggest numbers in one day statistics in the world,

and made "number based" posters of them, then placed in public.

I found very interesting the shocking numbers of statistis, and how we,

humans are measuring everything, on the other hand it is a contemporary

visualized imprint of a situation, which is absolutely representative

for the age we are living in.

BANDAGE

2011-11-10T12:03:00.000+01:00

ART MARKET Budapest 2011

2011-10-31T10:42:00.001+01:00

HUMAN BALANCE - SZÁRHEGY EDITION

2011-09-03T23:35:00.000+02:00

ONE SPAN ABOVE THE EARTH

2011-09-03T19:47:00.003+02:00

THE SOUL OF DEAD TREES

2011-09-02T21:59:00.004+02:00

STONE BALANCE

2011-09-02T21:48:00.000+02:00

SELF TRACE

2011-09-01T21:40:00.000+02:00

VELENCE LAKE WORKSHOP, HUNGARY

2011-09-01T21:10:00.000+02:00

SINGLE POSITIVE

DOUBLE POSITIVE

SINGLE NEGATIVE

1,7 tons of wood in balance, MAGTAR project, ANP, Hungary

2011-08-10T02:03:00.002+02:00

CROSS (HUMAN) BALANCE

2011-08-10T01:58:00.000+02:00

TIMBER (HUMAN) BALANCE

2011-08-10T01:51:00.000+02:00

BALANCE FOREST

2011-08-10T01:44:00.000+02:00

SPEAKS FOR ITSELF! - HUNGARIAN NATIONAL GALLERY - "FAQ"

2011-07-29T17:35:00.000+02:00

SZOCIÁL BAZÁR - Stúdió Galéria

2011-02-23T20:21:00.008+01:00

SZOCIÁL BAZÁR
Szabó Péter projektje
Kiállító művészek: Balázs József Tamás, Horváth Tibor, Kerekes Gábor,
Kristóf Krisztián, Kokesch Ádám, Kótun Viktor, Siegmund Ákos, Szabó Ákos,
Szacsva y Pál, Szigeti Csongor
Stúdió Galéria
2011. február 16. – március 12.
Megnyitó: 2011. február 15. 19.00

TABULA RASA - MAMŰ Galéria - EPITAPHS

2011-02-23T00:46:00.006+01:00

HORN BLOW Project, Partapur, India, 2011

2011-02-07T08:57:00.015+01:00

HORN BLOW: Communication, music or pollution?
Car horns are a key traffic communication device in India. I was shocked by the sound of them at first, but I slowly got used to them. I could hear many types of horns, and I started to envisage them as some kind of experimental music that went on in the streets. In addition I could see that most of the people enjoyed blowing their car’s horns, doing it naturally, sometimes playing the horns for the sake of it.

I felt the desire to take part in this strange communication game and I decided to create a device that would control different horn sounds. By using this device me or anybody else could compose his/her own improvisation or horn sound composition. Additionally they could interact with the traffic and people in the streets.

I recycled the front part of an out of use rickshaw, I fixed different horns to it, and also made a keyboard that people could use to produce different horn sounds. This work was carried out with the help of local craftsmen, which made my experience very enriching and interesting.

Once finished and tested, I brought the rickshaw out to the streets of Partapur. Local people and I played for about 3-4 hours during which we communicated, listened, enjoyed, got tired, spoke about music, traffic, sound pollution, vehicles, habits, education, society, etc.

The ‘overdose’ of sounds was effective and unforgettable. I hope that after this experience no one can hear the horn sounds without thinking of different tunes and creating other connections and associations to what I would like to call ‘traffic symphony’.

BALANCE Project, Partapur, India, 2011

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BALANCE: Human balance?

When encountering a new culture and meeting new people we tend to think about how to ‘measure’ each other. We look for differences and similarities, social connections, political affiliations, beliefs, habits, clothes, sizes, weights, colours, and so on. In my case I normally try to somehow compensate other people's and my ‘plus and minus’ features so that we become equal partners. And this was one of the starting points for the ‘Balance’ project. When I saw the big size scales in the streets of Partapur I came up with the idea of weighting myself and my Indian friends and passers-by. The aim was to reach balance by using counterweights.

DUPLA ÖNARCKÉP / DOUBLE SELF PORTRAIT - print, 140x100cm

2011-01-23T20:52:00.000+01:00

HAPPY!

2010-12-24T14:53:00.002+01:00

HAPPY!

SCOPE Forest

2010-11-15T02:53:00.001+01:00

ScopeForest 2010, near Gongju, South Korea

Chainsaw recycling

2010-11-15T02:40:00.000+01:00

SOME MORE WORKS

2010-11-15T01:41:00.002+01:00

SunPin - kinetic sculpture

2010-11-14T13:55:00.003+01:00

Mirror Box

2010-11-14T11:00:00.004+01:00

2010-11-14T10:40:00.000+01:00

Application (plan) for the Venice Biennale Hungarian Pavilion 2009

together with EGGS group and Adam Lendvay

INTERVIEW

2010-11-14T01:49:00.000+01:00

CHAINTREE - Ural 1991 - the recycling process

2010-09-12T02:15:00.004+02:00

SCOPE forest video - THE WALK, South Korea 2010

2010-08-24T13:45:00.009+02:00

Korea residency artwork - SCOPE forest

2010-08-23T19:58:00.000+02:00

TV Ceiling

2010-08-10T16:38:00.000+02:00

LightTree

2010-06-27T19:22:00.004+02:00

Public art pályázat Pécs - REART

2010-04-25T02:43:00.002+02:00

Public art pályázat Pécs - DISPLAY

2010-04-25T02:15:00.006+02:00

DIS-PLAY - public artwork

2010-03-22T01:17:00.012+01:00

Szigeti G. Csongor in PUBLIC ART EGER, Dobó tér, 2009
www.lektoratus.hu

DiS-PLAY.II - public artwork

2010-03-21T02:25:00.003+01:00

Szigeti G. Csongor in PUBLIC ART EGER,
Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, C, D, F épületek, rajztermek, kollégium, 2009.
www.lektoratus.hu

FOLK FILTER 2006

2010-03-12T16:25:00.000+01:00

2010-02-07T02:48:00.013+01:00

A Printa Akadémia bemutatja az első kézi szitanyomással készült kifestő könyvét,
melyet 6 fiatal képzőművész alkotott meg a gyerekeknek és felnőtteknek egyaránt.

Az alkotók Budha Tamás, Tatlin, Oliver Arthur, Nagy Áron, Szigeti Gábor Csongor,
Fischer Judit, Tábori András speciálisan ebbe a kifestő könyvbe készült munkái
a gyerekek vizuális érzékenységét hivatottak játékos formában fejleszteni,
mind szimbolikus, mind gyakorlati értelemben egy keretét adva a kortárs vizuális
kultúrának, amelyet a gyerekek megtölthetnek színes kreativitásukkal.

Január 30-án egy workshop-ot tartottunk, ahol a gyerekek kedvükre
kiszínezhették a könyveket. A résztvevő gyerekek által készült alkotásokat egy
rendhagyó kiállítás keretében bemutatjuk a Printa Galériában február 4-én.

Kiállítás megnyitó: 2010. február 4. 19h
A kiállítás megtekinthető 2010. február 4-13-ig.

MIRROR FILTER 2005

2010-02-02T16:31:00.000+01:00

T SHIRT

2010-01-22T20:01:00.002+01:00

T-shirt available.

TV Sticker

2010-01-22T18:39:00.007+01:00

If you are bored by your tv, put a TV-STICKER on! TV-STICKERs available soon.

SKYSCOPE

2010-01-12T20:51:00.002+01:00

Skyscope - my application for the geumgang nature art biennale (south korea) 2010. http://natureartbiennale.org/

2010-01-12T13:03:00.002+01:00

SCOPE Urban, a "mirror" project.

there is also skyskope and scope forest.

INTRO

2010-01-09T15:25:00.002+01:00

pictures from the opening of the INTRO exhibition (merlin theatre, budapest) u can find there my videoinstallation ChAW...

Children at war video

2010-01-09T15:00:00.000+01:00

the 'children at war' video

CHILDREN AT WAR

2010-01-09T14:43:00.000+01:00

from my children at war series... 150*100 cm each, print on canvas (long exposition digital photo of the video children at war)