Geza Ricz

Ricz explores the borderline between figuration and abstraction. He aims to create harmonious compositions by using contrary sub-elements. The contrasts of naturalistic and geometrical, damaged and sterile, visible and hidden provide the essence of his imagery. The themes of his collage-like oil paintings are based on personal memories from his childhood in Eastern Europe, social, art historical and historical references.

The oppositeness is characteristic of his color scale as well. Monochrome shades are juxtaposed with sharp, bright coloured details. The homogeneous and dark backgrounds give the feeling of a permanent space and are rooted in the Chiaroscuro technique of the Renaissance masters and its pronounced form Tenebrism.

Ricz creates collages that serve as the ground to his oil paintings. He is mixing details of old paintings, photographs, magazine cut-outs and personal memory fragments in order to build up his compositions.

Biography
Geza Ricz was born in 1980 in Subotica(ex Yugoslavia) in a Hungarian family. Currently lives and works in Salzburg, Austria.

His artworks have been featured in international magazines like ArtSlant-Under the radar, The Red Bulletin(AT), Art Maze Mag(UK), A5-Zine(UK), Symposion(S...

2011-BA - University of Szeged Department for Fine Arts and Art History, Hungary
2013- MA University of Szeged Faculty of Arts

2025
-Cadenza D'Inganno, Palazzo Due Mondi, Spoleto (IT)

2023
-NOBODY, Berchtoldvilla, Salzburg(AT)
-Grenzenlos, Stadtgalerie Salzburg(AT)
-Senkiháza, Solo show, TIK Gallery, Szeged(HU)

2022
-Das Personalhaus, Stadtgalerie Salzburg(AT)
-FIGUREN DER BEFREIUNG, "Kunsthalle zu vermieten", Salzburg(AT)
-Through the looking glass, Interlab-Imbergstrasse 43. Salzburg(AT)

2021
-Bakáts Bunker, Solo show, Budapest(H)
-Izoláció, Solo show, Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Subotica(SRB)2020:
-Salzung, Berchtoldvilla, Salzburg(AT)

2019:
-Art Verona, Verona(IT)
-ADD Art Gallery, Solo exhibition, Spoleto(IT)

2018:
-Salon D'Automne, Champs-Elysées, Paris(FR)
-Color 2018, Czong Institution for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si(KOR)
-BEEP Painting Biennial, Swansea College of Art, Swansea(UK)
-Premio Combat, Museo Fattori, Livorno(IT)

2017:
-Arsenale di Venezia - Arte Laguna Prize Finalist Exhibition, Venezia(IT)
-TOAF - Arnolfi, Bristol(UK)
-Stroke, Zündapphalle, Munich(DE)
-Alchemic body - Laura Haber Gallery, Buenos Aires,(ARG)
-Stephan Jäger International Art Symposium Jubileum Exhibition - Calpe Gallery Timișoara, (RO)

2015:
-Kunsthalle Budapest -Here and Now, Budapest(HU)
-Strip u Subotici -Gallery of Contemporary Arts, Subotica(SRB)
-Academic ...