Lot n° 29
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 650EUR
Simon ZSOLT JÓZSEF
Flying Garden II
Vase
2018
Porcelaine
H 27 x L 27 x P 20 cm
Zsolt József Simon was born in Celldömölk, West of Hungary in 1973. He is living and working now in Pécs, South of Hungary. He finished his studies as porcelain designer at MOME Budapest in 2006. Beside of sculptural work he has been teaching drawing, painting and also leading workshops, giving lectures based on the special porcelain slip casting technique he invented. His sculptures appeared in many exhibitions, galleries and competitions from New York to Japan and also won several awards on these events.
In the case of the creation of an object frozen in a motionless state, we would be saddened if viewers would only witness them as a “dead” sight. Seemingly static statics fail to move viewers and create a sense that the object was born and took shape through work, life, and motion. Viewers have as much chance to link the motionless with its origin and its living motion as it’s capable of leaving an impression and reference to the spiritual and living in a petrified object.
These shapes are border-beings capable of recalling the image of simple, microscopic beings – beings with a true medium of moisture, a lifelike, flowing world. They are like the shells of diatoms which in this size display the traits of order evidenced in the kingdom of plants and animals, occasionally imitating the diffuse systems of barren skeletons, branches, or leaves.
The softly manifesting interior, turning to darkness and guarded in a dangerous nest of density and opulence displays an image which recalls the balancing between the existence of plant and animal life. It is a kind of inflorescence which leads to gulf-like inner space similar to the mouths of animals where we are welcomed by an active darkness suggestive of secrets.
Moving inwards from the petals we move along a smoothly rippling liquidity towards the inside of objects, with a rotating-radiating orientation on the outside. We
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