ARTIST PROFILE

Zolt Asta

  • Hungary (b. 1974)
  • Currently in Budapest / London.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My aim is to investigate the role of the human soul in today's technocratic society. During the renaissance period the centre of the universe was located in people, but now as it seems its place was taken by the instruments of the consumer society. I wonder how could the human presence disappear? It still manifest but in a more hidden and coded way. I depict these coded and hidden situations by using various media. I juxtapose the sterile and remote world with lyric and often romantic human contexts. I tend to use sacral motives since I believe the human soul is sacral in essence.


BIOGRAPHY

Zolt Asta (aka. Zsolt Asztalos)
http://asztaloszsolt.com/
Born in 1974. Lives and works in Budapest / London. Graduated at Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. He represented Hungary at 55th Venice Biennale – 'Fired but Unexploded' installation.