Zsolt Bodoni
(1975-)
born in Élesd, Romania
lives and works in Nagyvárad and Budakeszi, Hungary
Zsolt Bodoni’s working process is based on an analysis of the past that functions as a type of archaeology. He sources information from documents, art history and music - his work is both an understanding and a process of recreation through forging a new view of the past from the perspective of the present. Bodoni’s paintings are like a performance. Similarly to when classical musicians re-visit musical scores, the process starts with the re-imagination of old masters. First Bodoni attempts to peer beneath the glaze of the “original”, searching for the skeleton underneath, then, from his own reproduction he invents new elements or changes the proportions - a process which he describes is similar to the act of “hacking” - he states that his role is like a virus that invades the unique masterpieces. He aims to change our interpretations of the past and redefine our understanding of originality.
Bodoni`s work has been featured and reviewed in Art in America, FlashArt and New York Times. In 2009 he was selected as one of the “Top 100 Emerging Artists” of FlashArt International.
EDUCATION
1995-2000 Hungarian University of Fine Arts
NOTABLE COLLECTIONS
Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE, Susan and Michael Hort, New York, NY, The Mallin Collection, New York, NY, The Blake Byrne Collection, Los Angeles, CA, Zoe and Joel Dictrow Collection, New York, NY, The Craig Robins Collection, Miami, FL, Whitespace: The Mordes Collection, West Palm Beach, FL Jimenez-Colon Collection, Ponce, PR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Duo Exhibition with Márton Nemes, BuBu, Buffalo, New York
2019 E.H.M.S, Art + Text Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2016 Forest, Art + Text Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2014 The Shining Path, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2013 King Give Us Soldiers, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2011 Remastered, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Gods and Mortals, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Fehérlófia, Son of the White Mare, Ana Cristea Gallery,
New York, NY
2009 The Foundries of Ideology, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY
Yesterday’s Heroes, Tomorrow’s Fools, Mihai Nicodim Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
2008 Monuments, FA Projects, London, UK Art Factory Gallery,
Budapest, Hungary
2006 Hungarian Cultural Institute, Bruxelles, Belgium
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Contemplating the Spiritual in Contemporary Art, Rosenfeld Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London, UK
2017 Disruptive Imagination, Art Mill, Szentendre, Hungary
2016 Disruptive Imagination, Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava,
Czech Republic
2015 THE NUDE in the XX & XXI CENTURY, S|2 Gallery,
London, UK
2014 Turning Points, The Twentieth Century Through 1914, 1939, 1989 and 2004, Hungarian National Gallery, Buda Palace,
Budapest, Hungary
Defaced, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
This Side of Paradise, S|2 Gallery, London, UK
2013 Nightfall, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Budapest Tales, Scheublein Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland
2012 Nightfall, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
Referencing History, Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2011 East Ex East, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic
Leipzig Walkabout, Ana Cristea Gallery invited by Galerie
Eigen + Art, Leipzig, Germany
Art Los Angeles Contemporary (with Mihai Nicodim Gallery),
Los Angeles, CA
2010 Uncertain Terrain, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
After the Fall, HVCCA, Peekskill, NY
Year One, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY
Bad Industry, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Face Your Demons, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
In Standard Time, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Show Me a Hero, Calvert 22, London, UK
Staging the Grey, Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 15 Hungarian and Romanian Painters, Plan B, Cluj, Romania
Portraits of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, FA Projects,
London, UK
2007 Ernst Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Art Colony of Élesd, Strasbourg EU Parliament, France