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Gizella Varga Sinai |
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| Statement: | 1 - From west to east
The first several exhibitions since my arrival in Iran reflected my impressions of the Iranian people and the common life; a butcher, a shoemaker, a peddler, a carpetseller, street musicians, and scenes of the bazaar.
1968-1977
2 - Blind Dolls
In the “Blind Dolls”, Inspired by one of Omar Khayyam’s verses “we are the puppets and the universe is the puppeteer …”, One can see people aging. Yet cradling dolls in their arms. While the passing of time has not etched any wrinkles on the doll’s faces. they are broken and have lost their crystal eyes.
Appearing blind. Yet maintaining their smile on motionless lips, as if believing the works of the verses, “Sit by the flower, for it has risen from the earth and is buried in it a hundred times”.
1980
Mix Technique
3 - Echo of Silence
“Echo of Silence” was based on stone bas relifs of ancient ruins…”in the depths of millenniums, the stillness of ruins, and the silence of images, there is a meaningful echo: Beware! History is made by you and me; by us!” This time, the images on stone tell the story of man in the passage of time; warriors, horses, lovers… all of them cracked, Petrified figures. The petrified flight of a bird, yet awaiting birth in a nest, and again in another place in the midst of stone images, a wild flower, a thorny bush, two small fish, or a pomegranate, red and ripe… I believe that life calmly, yet determinedly, wins over the passage of time and thus existence and non-existence are tightly interwoven. We know that world histories will exist in great circles of the ever-repeating life.
(Acrylic on canvas)
4 - The South and its Masks
In 1997, I suddenly discovered and was fascinated by the nature and people of the South of Iran; Bandar Abbas, Hormoz Island, Qeshm. The women with masks and colorful dresses reminded me of stories about Odyssey’s journeys, the sirens, and of Neptune, god of the Seas. The people of the Persian Gulf continue to live with their tales and myths, just as they have done for many years. The mask conceals, but it also recalls the immortality of human beings, womanhood, and the sea.
(1999-2000)
Acrylic & oil on canvas
5 - Images and Walls
“Images and walls” express the same outlook on life and the world. Dolls and stone relief are transformed to painting on cracked plaster of old walls.
Lovers, Warriors, legendary beauties and beasts are only faded images. Yet again, beside each one, a flower, a thorny bush, a dove, herald the continuation of life, all of which express my homage to life.
(1989-2003-2005)
Acrylic on canvas
6 - Travel Diary - Safar Nameh
After long years of stay in the Orient, I continue finding new beauties and unknown wonders.
However, in my spirit, just as if it were a unending spring, I feel my Hungarian past and childhood.
These images are now re-appearing. All what I have experienced there and here, in the past and in the present - poems, calligraphy, symbols, forms, icons, old documents and miniatures - merge into surreal experiences of my never-ending travel.
(From 2005 to ...) Acrylic on canvas | | Biography: | Born in Hungary, studied at Vienna's "Akademie fur Angewandte Kunst". Living in Iran since 1967 as active artist, she has had several one-man and group exhibitions in Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Europe, U.S.A, Canada, China, and Dubai. |
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