Gergely SZATMÁRI
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Gergely SZATMÁRI
GERGELY SZATMÁRI
GERGELY SZATMÁRI is the professor of Moholy- Nagy University of Art and Design. He has numerous exhibitions at Hungary and other countries as well. He has three amazing photography series in book form as well: the Conventional book, the Meadowlans book and the American Idler book. In 2012 he had an exhibition from the American Idler series at the Faur Zsófi Gallery.
Gabor Pfisztner wrote the following about the American Idler:
“The American Idler was created in a world where the feeling of superfluity and the menacing emptiness of the remaining time can be observed on surrounding persons and surrounding things, among which their time flows by in a compulsory way. Here, as well as on the landscapes, the main urge is to recall the feeling of immobility, the apparent constancy which implies the condition of death. Details of deserted streets, squares, parking places, buffets become impersonal, unbearable, life-less. This method implies something basically antagonistic. The imagery of the American Idlers its streets, interiors and exteriors, its hesitatingly loitering characters. Here appear apparently supernatural lights in the background, filtering in through the cracks, and create a strange, dream-like atmosphere. The world becomes a scenery where the unreal becomes real, it is a perfect opposite of the monotonous reality of the ordinary world.”
The Meadowlands series was made in the USA at 2009.
The Meadowlands book is starting with the following intro:
,,New Jersey is as American as it comes! Actually the state is a very diverse one, a significant producer of agriculture with rolling farmland reminiscent of the Great Plains with some of the highest elevations on the Eastern seaboard, beautiful natural rivers, and elaborate country estates. It is also host to some of America’s most wealthy suburbs and worst urban slums intertwined with every franchised entity that capitalism could conjure. Popular culture celebrates the place: you know where Snookie and Bruce Springsteen live, where Frank Sinatra came from, and let us not forget that it was home to the poets Allan Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams, and Walt Whitman, and the geniuses, Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison. The photographs in this book, of this in-between place through which Tony Soprano drove in the beginning of every episode of the TV show The Sopranos, connect the viewer in one way or another to all that is New Jersey and all that is America, past and present.”
STUDIES:
2006 – 09 MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, (DLA)
2004 MA in Photography, Hungarian University of Crafts and Design
1990 BA in Photography, Hungarian College of Applied Arts, Budapest
2000- MOME, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
EXHIBITIONS:
2012 ‘Zero visibility possible’ – Faur Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2012 ‘Faster, higher, stronger’ – Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2012 “Essays in Idleness” – Ponton Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2011 “Meadowlands” – Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2011 Viennafair – Faur Zsófi Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2010 Paris Photo – Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010 “Meadowlands” – Karton Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010 Contemporary Hungarian Photographers – Institute Hongrois de Paris, France
2010 “Photomaniac” – Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010 “Meadowlands” – Submergedart Gallery, Newark, NJ, USA
2010 Viennafair – Faur Zsófi Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2010 “Budapest Art Market” – Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2010 “Unterwegs” with Klubfoto, Cap San Diego, Hamburg, Germany
2008 “Conventional” – Hungarian Cultural Center, London, UK
2008 “Conventional” – Ponton Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2008 “Private” with Klubfoto, Museum des Arbait, Hamburg, Germany
Hungarian Cultural Centre, London, Covent Garden
2007 “Faulheit” – Bipolar Project, Ponton Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007 “Movie in photography“ International exhibition of staged photography –
Muzeul National da Arta, Cluj, Romania
2007 “Faulheit“ Bipolar Project – Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
2006 “Berühmt” with Klubfoto – Gruner & Jahr, Hamburg, Germany
2006 MOME Photography dep. show – Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
BOOKS:
AMERICAN IDLER – Gergely Szatmari, 2012
MEADOWLANDS – Boook Publishing, 2011
CONVENTIONAL – Art and Design Ltd, 2008
ACTIVITY IN EDUCATION:
2012 Curating for ‘Human Dignity/Emberi méltóság’ XY MOME show, Ludwig Museum,
Budapest
2009 MA in Photography Curriculum for Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design,
Budapest
2007 BA in Photography Curriculum for Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design,
Budapest
2007 Faulheit / Restség Bipolar project and research collaboration with MOME and
the University of Braunschweig, Germany
2008 – 2009 studies with the support of HAESF in Montclair State University, NJ,
USA
AWARDS:
2004 MAOE Diploma Awards
2000 @rc billbord I. prize
1999 Budapest Stock Market Award