Barbara Sipos

The compelling pressure to be similar to the beauty ideals is a disease of our time.

Barbara Sipos plays with this twisted obsession in her new pictures, where she mixes perfect details of gorgeous women, slightly amending the proportions.

This way a distorted mirror has been created which is, actually, the grotesque and disillusioned reality itself.

The human weakness which comes from the wishfull thinking of being perfect, like a nocturnal moth, rushes into the light to be burnt for a bit of miracle.

Quoting the artist: ’With this technique sometimes pictures are born the effects of which cannot be controlled even by myself.’




Barbara Sipos
Füzespatak str. 36-37. Páty 2071 Hungary
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nationality: Hungarian

Place and Date of Birth: Tatabánya 14. September. 1969.







Prizes:
1994 Scholarship Nyergesi
2001 Price of Hungarian Sculptors Society
2004 Price of Municipality of Tatabánya
2005 Monument of 1956, Competition for Public Statue, Nagykanizsa, Hungary, II prize
2005 Monument of 1956, Competition for Public Statue, Keszthely, Hungary, I prize 2006 Monument of 1956, Competition for Public Statue, Marcali, Hungary, II prize
2006...

1991–97 Hungarian University of Designes Arts Directors Zolán Bohus, Márton Horváth
1992–97 Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Director Tamás Körösényi

Individual Exhibitions:

1994 Epreskert, Kálvária, Budapest
2001 Gallery Eremitage, Göttingen, Germany
2003 Sysdata Kft., SIEMENS Company Budapest
2004 Aulich Art Gallery, Budapest
2004 Smelik and Stoking Gallery, Den Haag, Neederland
2005 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tatabánya, Hungary
2005 Museum of History, Csenger, Hungary
2006 House of Arts, Pécs, Hungary
2006 Light and Loft, Gallery Erdész, Budapest (with László Taubert)
2008 Containers and Plush Bear, Manna Galéria, Budapest (With Marica Sipos)
2008 Gallery Erdész-Makláry, Budapest
2009 Gallery of the Libaray, Győr, Hungary (with Marica Sipos)
2010 Gallery KOGART Budapest, Hungary
2010 Gallery Time Vienna, Austria


Selected Group Exhibitions:

1997 Haus of culture, Tatabánya, Hungary
1999 National Biennial of Medaillon, Sopron, Hungary
1999 National Biennal of Small Sculptures, Pécs, Hungary
1999 Plastic Age, Musem of Kiscell, Budapest, Hungary
2000 Pre and Beyond Sculpture, Art Gallery, Budapest
2000 Autumn exhibition, Tatabánya, Hungary
2001 National Biennal of Medaillon Sopron, Hungary
2002 Plain Art, Gallery Erlin , Budapest, Hungary
2002 Art Kitchen, Gallery Erdész, Szentendre, Hungary
2002 XIII National Biennal of Exhibition of...