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.
Pigs eat pigs

Pigs eat pigs

  • 2006
  • taxidermied pig
  • 140 x 90 x 80 cm

  • Pig 20pig
  • Szollosi 20pig07
  • 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.