Terror 012 Painting

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 telefon: +(36) 70 314 1706 e -mail: website : 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 In memoriam Zoltán Kodály, Competition for Public Statue, Kecskemét, Hungary, III prize 2006 Autumn exhibition,work prize, Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary 2008 Endre Béla Prize, Hódmezővásárhely, Hungary 2009 Prize Reijinsha, Paris