Attila Szücs - Sándor Hornyik Jane Neal Gebunden

This richly illustrated volume presents the extensive oeuvre of Attila Szücs (Born 1967 in Miskolc) one of Hungary's most important contemporary painters. Szucs works with old newspaper clippings postcards photographs and film stills adding new meaning to these traces of the collective memory in his works. Besides issues concerning the culture of remembrance and memory research the tendencies of East and Central European painting and the artist's early experiences with totalitarianism have influenced his art. The incursion of the uncanny into the familiar manifests in the large oil paint ings: ghostly absent protagonists peculiar furniture and everyday objects stand isolated in deserted spaces melancholic in their lack of relationship to anything else. The masterful use of light and shadow in combination with unexpectedly harsh colors reinforces the surrealistic impression of these scenes. Dream and memory dissolve into each other creating a fascinating state of suspension in Szücs' s visual universe. Exhibition: Ludwig Museum Budapest December 2016