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Károly Keserü

Country of residence United Kingdom

Things digital feature in the work of Károly Keserü, although, in a sleight of hand, his paintings quote the pixilated surface of electronic imagery while simultaneously referencing the grid, post- impressionism and a variety of expressionisms. A diversity of perspectives and points of view merge into single images, and while this work displays a quotational aspect of sorts, it's clear that the quotational devices apparent in the painterly innovations of the late seventies and early eighties, were clunky by comparison with the smooth interstylistic conjunctions of late 90s neo-retro.

In addition, Keseru has superimposed the cool ironies of postmodern inversion that privilege the 'other'- folk art and craft - over the grid matrix of modernist aesthetics, toying with history by constructing a modernist/folk-art hybrid he calls folkmodern, while simultaneously creating a conjunction out of the once great divide between art and craft.

1999 Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
Awards: 2000 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship

Individual Exhibitions
1999 Aprosagok, Mu-Terem Galeria, Debrecen, Hungary
Folkmodern, George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne

Selected Group Exhibitions
1999 POCO NOCO meets Arthur Boyd, TCB Gallery, Melbourne;
POCO NOCO meets Jacques Derrida, Derrida Prize Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne;
Darrebin, La Trobe Art Prize and Exhibition, Centre for Decorative Arts, Melbourne
1998 Room with a View, JANAX, Myer shop window, Melbourne;
Small Things, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
Space Invaders, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1997 Clothing Exchange, DAMP, Grey Area Art Space Inc., Melbourne;
Mystery of Being, Victorian College of the Arts Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Ego, Temple Studio, Melbourne
1994 Postcard Show, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Iglu, csoport, RS 9 Theatre, Budapest, Hungary

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2007!, 01.Aug - 30.Sep.07, Contemporary Art Projects, Summer exhibition 2006, 17.Aug - 03.Sep.06, Contemporary Art Projects

 

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