Exhibition runs from 16 May 2012 – 10 July 2012

The Austrian painter Alfredo Barsuglia is not unknown to the Hungarian public, as his works were presented in Raday Gallery, the predecessor of Faur Zsofi Gallery in 2008. Since then he has successfully participated in several group exhibitions and international art fairs (Budapest Art Fair 2009, Art Market Budapest 2011, Art Paris 2012), but up till now he has not had a solo exhibition in Hungary.
Alfredo Barsuglia can be called a real international artist, as he has worked in many countries from Austria through Poland, Russia to China and the US. Despite his young age, his work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Leopold Collection (Vienna). His newest works (paintings, installations) are coming straight from Vienna to Budapest.

About the concept (after Alfredo Barsuglia):

In "Unwritten stories", the visitor will see different settings like in a movie-set: it is very common to install fake facades, doors, rooms etc., instead of constructing a whole town. Outdoor scenes are often shot indoor, that is why a sandcastle will be built in the gallery space. A projection of a landscape will give you the illusion to be somewhere outdoor, in the countryside, in nature.
Every single installation is like a story that is not told or written yet, but by seeing the illusionary wall-painting-installation, it can be imagined by the visitor.
The paintings themself can be understood as movie-scenes. The image / picture gives you an idea of how a scene could look like and the attached text gives you an idea of the content of the scene. That is why Barsuglia combines text and image. He likes to compare image and text with two dots: If you have only one dot, it is just a dot, but if you have two dots, you can make a line in between. One can read a narrative story, finalized in the head of the visitor.

About Alfredo Barsuglia:

Alfredo Barsuglia, born 1980 in Graz/Austria, currently lives and works in Vienna. Barsuglia was educated at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Akademia Sztuk Pieknych in Cracow/Poland.
Barsuglia’s work was shown in numerous international exhibitions, including MUMOK (Vienna), Leopod Museum (Vienna), MAK Center (Los Angeles), Konschthaus beim Engel (Luxembourg), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing) or at the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
Barsuglia was a MAK-Schindler Artist in Residence in Los Angeles in 2006 as well as a Joshua Tree Highlands Artist in Residence in 2008 and an Artist in Residence in Judenburg in 2012. In 2007 he received the Art Award of the City of Graz. In 2010 Barsuglia received a Foreign Scholarship by the Provincial Government of Stryria for New York and the Humanic Art Award. Between 2009 and 2011 Barsuglia was invited as a guest critic at Pratt Institute in New York.
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About Faur Zsófi Gallery:

The gallery was founded as one of the first Hungarian private galleries after the change of the regime in 1997. As a result of our long-term visual culture message, we are continuously working as a programme gallery for 15 years now.
The main goal of the gallery is the intensive representation of Hungarian contemporary fine art and photography on international art fairs – this year so far Art Paris 2012 and Milan Image Art Fair – and the integration of Hungarian artist into the international art scene, beside the establishment of contacts with foreign galleries.
In a close relation with this, employing our professional printing background, which is unique in the contemporary art scene of the CEE region, the gallery publishes erudite publications and monographs about the latest developments and insights in contemporary art history in several languages. In addition, it turns open to the international trends, and through this to the foreign artists to present their recent efforts to the domestic audience, and to feature successful among art collectors in Hungary.
Beyond the introduction of high art, the gallery and the publisher take an active part in the children’s development and visual education, because the art, the susceptibility for aesthetic values are an integral part of their advance.

The Faur Zsófi Gallery on the one hand aspires to accost an extensive, appreciative audience, because the artworks show their substantial face in a living, full of people, chattering silence. On the other hand, the gallery would be an ever teeming, intellectual and aesthetic agent, „culture space”, where the people come back gladly again and again.

Contact:

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