Akos Sziraki

Ákos Sziráki is cosmopolitan- a composite of many cultures, languages and a complex world of experience. From his biography one senses the at times stony, but always interesting, path his life has taken and how it has positively shaped him. His work is unique and universal. He doesn't seek legitimacy through conformity, rather his form of expression is driven by inner law. Through consistent minimalization of his palette the figures on his canvas achieve a third dimension. Close observation of his paintings reveals a remarkable color sensibility. In an apparently monochrome surface a self-created blue simultaneously takes on hues of green, yellow, white or black.

The figures that inhabit his paintings and the sculptures that lend an infectious liveliness to every room are unmistakably mutations of people, stones, and unknown, yet to be born organisms which have a lifecycle entirely of their own. Only the relentless exploration of this hidden world, without regard to risk of injury or misjudgement, opens the possibility of perception and realization. Through this process he leads us to understand how to dive into the depths of the soul by means of a decimated painting, animates us through compacted sculpture to learn to breath,...

1989 - 1994 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht /Netherlands (Rijkshogeschool ABK, Bachelor's Degree),

since 1990 several exhibitions in Hungary, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Korea, China, Sweden and Romania

2008 The Nowton Gallery Park International Sculpture Symposium, Seoul, Korea
2008 Kunst Dagen Wittem 21th edition of the Kunstdagen Wittem, Netherlands
2007 Sexuse me Gallery Freitag 1830, Aachen, Germany
2007 The 14th China Qingdao International Art Festival
2006 Human, Nature and ArtsThe Yushun Museum in Harbin, China
2003 Seoul International Art Festival the 9th 21c ICAA; Sejong Arts Centre Museum Annex, Gwanghwamun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2003 Crossing Borders International Art Symposia, ArToll Kunstlabor, Germany
2003 Kunstgriff Gallery-Kunsthuis Theo Hubens, Maastricht, Netherlands
2002 Reconstruction of the bust of the councilor of Cologne Wilhelm Kaesen, Wilhelm, in bronze, (orig.1881); Volksgarten, Cologne Germany (art in public)
1998 International Kunstsymposia in Bran, Roumania
1997 Akos Szirki Gallery-KPV Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
1997 Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
1996 Skulpturen GALERIE IM BELGISCHEM VIERTEL; Cologne, Germany
1994 art multiple Art Fair Duesseldorf, Germany