ARTIST PROFILE

Géza Szöllősi

  • Hungary (b. 1977 in Budapest)
  • Currently in Budapest, Hungary.
  • He is a skilled multi-disciplinary artist working in a wide variety of mediums including taxidermy, flesh, photos... His work has been exhibited alongside artists such as Chapmans', Koons, Wikin in the Decadence Now! organised by Rudolfinum, Prague.
Boxer

Boxer

  • 2008
  • Cow - thumbnail Pigs eat pigs - thumbnail Boxer - thumbnail Fox - thumbnail

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    My Pets | 2006 - 2014

WHAT IS THE TAXIDERMY ITSELF? THERE IS AN ANIMAL, EXCISE ITS SKIN FROM ITS BODY AND MAKE A SAME SHAPE PLASTIC BODY AND COVER IT WITH THE SKIN. TAXIDERMY PROJECT IS A TRIAL WHAT HAPPEN IF I CHANGE THE FORM AND PUT THE SKINS DIFFERENT KIND OF SHAPE. IN THIS PROJECT WHOSE GENRE REQUIRES A HYPERREALISTIC APPROACH NEVERTHELESS MIXES WITH THE MYTHOLOGICAL, AND THE OBJECTS – USED TO BE LIVE ANIMALS – FIND THEMSELVES IN ABSURD SITUATIONS, CAUSING THEM PAIN WHILE BEING HUMAN TOYS.