Barna Gacsi


“Far away from everything that is not spacious and not enormous, there is the boundless and confused multitude of human relations
Now I am in my original country where everything is penetrating, fine and sober
I am staying in the loneliness without any fathers, sons and friends, in the impermanence
My closed eyes, a rest, an idea beyond an only idea
Around me there are stones, water, air, light
I am the silence”

I was born on Mars 11th in 1969 in Törökszentmiklós. Here I went to the primary and secondary school. At the age of 19 I was pondering on what to do, what my object in life is. I often went to the library. I liked walking among the books, taking one from the shelf because I thought that it might be the one that transmits a message for me.

My contact with the art took shape such a moment, like a stroke of lightning. I came across a publication full of statues. As if I had had an electric shock. I felt immediately that this is what I had to do, I even knew that I was capable to do this task. I moved to Budapest and started to work in a bronze foundry as a factory hand. Here I realised that professionnal knowledge is a part of sculpture. In a couple of years I sat my entrance examination to the academy of arts. Here I met Professor István Bencsik who taught at the arts faculty of Pécs university. I followed him and I finished my studies there. I spent six meaningful years with my master.

What we call ourselves is a possibility to feel the vibrations of the world and to observe our lived experiences. An interesting projection of such amazements is the work of art. I fill the statues with my experiences and feelings, this way I become empty, giving way to new impressions, impulses. This is a kind of birth or creation mystery. When a work of art is ready, I often sit in front of it and I wonder: Who did it? I feel that I am a mechanism or a mediator where the messages of the world flow and this mediator casts a material, often without any comprehension. I think that the important thing is the experience, not the comprehension.

After every creation of a work of art something changes in me. Maybe change is the most important thing in the universe and it is the motive of the world that surrounds us.

Exhibitions:

10-14 févr 2021 Salon des Artistes Français Paris Art Capital
14-18 oct 2020 Figuration Critique Paris
15-18 oct 2020 Salon d’Automne Paris
11-20 juillet 2020 2e Biennale Salon de Vittel
11-16 fevr 2020 Salon des Artistes Français Paris Grand Palais
25-31 oct 2019 Artistik-Mouve-Europe expo international d’art contemporain Besançon
17 sept- 26 oct 2019 „Le monde marche sur la tête” Biennale de Sculpture Monaco Artistes en Mouvements
17-27 sept 2019 „Silence le bruit court” Gemluc’Art Monaco / Le grand prix sculpture 2019
10-13 sept 2019 „Ceux qui se cachent” Rois Enchères Fréjus
6-8 sept 2019 Artistik-Mouve-Europe expo international d’art contemporain Pont de Roide Vermondans

31 août- 6 sept 2019 „Métamorphose” Galerie San Peïre Les Issambres
27-31 août 2019 „Visions” Chapelle Saint Michel Roquebrune -sur -Argens
7 juin-30 oct 2019 „When Classic meets Modern” La Vague de Saint Paul, Saint Paul de Vence
5-6-7 juillet 2019 „Comme l’art devient l’humanité” S’Prid’Art Mouans-Sartoux
27 juin – 15 oct 2019 „Liberté, liberté, chérie” exposition d’UMAM, Nice
6-9 juin 2019 Base’Art Upcycling Saint Raphael
3 janv- 31 mars 2019 Il n’y a que des questions Galerie Gacsi Fréjus
9 juin-31août 2018 Biennale Saint-Paul de Vence OFF
25 mars15 juin 2018 „Divin humanité” Galerie Inattendue Paul Conti, La Colle sur Loup
17-26 mars 2018 „Les pensées” Palais des expositions de Nice, Nice

15août-3 sept 2017 Le Salon Antiquités & Art Contemporain, Salle Jean-Despas, Saint Tropez
14-20 juillet 2017 „Le Traineur” Chapelle Saint Michel, Roquebrune
8 mai-31 juin 2017 „Les esclaves” Port Tonic Art Center, Les Issambres
4-13 mars 2017 „Il est grand temps de rallumer les étoiles” (Guillaume Apollinaire) Palais des
Expositions de Nice, Nice
12 février 2017 „Le Traineur” Espace Robert Manuel, Les Issambres
25 août- 31 sept 2016 „Métamorphose” Ramatuelle
26 juil-7 août 2016 „L’Art en Liberté” Villa Aurélienne, Fréjus
18 juin-16 oct 2016 „L’Art en Liberté ”exposition en plein air, Fréjus

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