Attila SzuCs - Portraits of the Last Golden Age

Attila Szucs, Sandor Hornyik

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Anomie Publishing
05 February 2024

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Portraits of the Last Golden Age is the latest major monograph on the work of Budapest-based artist Attila Szucs (b.1967, Miskolc, Hungary), one of the leading painters in Hungary today. Following on from his 2016 monograph, Specters and Experiments, published by Hatje Cantz, Portraits of the Last Golden Age features a substantial in-conversation between Szucs and Sándor Hornyik, an art historian, curator and senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. 'Mankind is in an extremely tense situation,' Szucs asserts, 'with the escalation of natural disasters, with artificial intelligence getting out of hand, the world can easily take a dystopian turn.' During the course of the conversation, the two men discuss topics ranging from portraiture to posthumanism, meditation to metaphysics, intuition to the irrational.

In addition to presenting examples of Szucs' accomplished and haunting monochrome works on paper employing materials such as acrylic, charcoal and graphite, the publication features over seventy oil paintings made between 2019 and 2023 depicting dark dreamscapes and transcendental scenes of alternate realities. Disembodied hands grab or caress, as if apparitions from another dimension; sleeping figures exhale multi-coloured breath that verges on the supernatural; long golden hair flows down the side of a bed, pooling on the floor like an uncanny waterfall; heads float in dark water as if decapitated; otherworldly fires rage while apocalyptic explosions highlight environmental disasters and humankind's seemingly unstoppable drive towards auto-destruction. Szucs' work is both an exploration into the human psyche and into the universe itself, much of which is as-yet unknown: quantum worlds and multiverses, the complexities of time and space, and the possibilities of an afterlife. Bleak yet beautiful, dark yet dazzling, Szucs' practice asks what painting can bring to twenty-first century thinking and image-making.

Produced by Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, and co-published by Anomie Publishing, London, the publication features texts in English and Hungarian (translated by Dániel Sipos), was designed by Géza Ipacs, and printed and bound by EPC Nyomda, Budaörs.

Attila Szucs (b.1967, Miskolc, Hungary) is an artist based in Budapest. Solo shows include Portraits of the Last Golden Age, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, 2023; Duplicated Dreamer, FL Gallery/Wizard, Milan, 2022; Transhuman Etudes, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, 2020; Preparing for Lightness, Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Düsseldorf, 2017; and Specters and Experiments, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2016. Group exhibitions include Becoming. The force of existence, HAB, Art Center Budapest, 2023; Men, The male body in Robert Runtak's collection, The South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, 2022; You know who, Ömer Koç Collection, Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion, Istanbul, 2022; and Ludwig-30-Costumize/Testreszabás, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2019.

AUTHORS: Artist Attila Szucs (b.1967, Miskolc, Hungary) is based in Budapest. Solo shows include Portraits of the Last Golden Age, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, 2023; Transhuman Etudes, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, 2020; Preparing for Lightness, Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Düsseldorf, 2017; and Specters and Experiments, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2016.

Sándor Hornyik is an art historian, a curator and a senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Since 2005 he has been Head of the Lexicon collection. He wrote his PhD thesis on the relationship between avant-garde art and modern natural science, and regularly writes articles and reviews on contemporary art.

By: Attila Szucs, Sandor Hornyik
Imprint: Anomie Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 285mm, Width: 235mm,
ISBN: 9781910221563
ISBN 10: 1910221562
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 05 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Artist Attila Szucs (b.1967, Miskolc, Hungary) is based in Budapest. Solo shows include Portraits of the Last Golden Age, Erika Deak Gallery, Budapest, 2023; Transhuman Etudes, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, 2020; Preparing for Lightness, Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Dusseldorf, 2017; and Specters and Experiments, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2016. Sandor Hornyik is an art historian, a curator and a senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. Since 2005 he has been Head of the Lexicon collection. He wrote his PhD thesis on the relationship between avant-garde art and modern natural science, and regularly writes articles and reviews on contemporary art.

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Attila SzuCs - Portraits of the Last Golden Age

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