Mátyás Zsolt Sárosi

My name is Mátyás Zsolt Sárosi, I was born in 1985 in the small Transylvanian town of Kézdivásárhely.
I am a graphic artist, my earlier acrylic paintings are also rather colorful graphics. I like to paint/plaster layers by masking and build up the painting like an inverted sgraffito.
Lately I have returned to pen and acrylic ink drawing. I attack the large canvas with the opposite impulse, I don't want large scale, airy compositions and spacious brush strokes, but I want to saturate it to the brim with as much detail as possible, typical of miniature painting. The larger the canvas, the thinner the pen. Sometimes it takes me up to a month to fill the page. My drawings can be browsed for a longer period of time, allowing the eye and mind to wander. The overall picture is complex, and here I learn from nature: the closer you look at a formation, the more complex it is, the more you can discover the miniature sprawl of its components, and as you break it down further and closer to its organic and then inorganic structure, to the substance itself in the end, it doesn't get simpler, but on the contrary, more complex with each step closer. In such a drawing, the viewer can examine under a microscope not just the familiar living or inanim...

Private tutoring from my graphic artist father Sárosi Csaba.
2000 – 2004 Plugor Sándor Arts High School, Sfântu Gheorghe
2004 – 2008 graphics department at University Of Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca

2000 - Joint exhibition with Lázár Levente, Târgu Secuiesc
2005 - A Page of the Encyclopedia, group exhibition at the Apáczai Gallery, Apáczai Education Center
2005 – Rezultart group exhibition, Sfântu Gheorghe
2005 – 2007 – Fine-arts exhibition during the Kőrösi Csoma Sándor days, Covasna
2005 – 2009 – Incitato international art camp's exhibitions, Târgu Secuiesc
2006 – “Palette” exhibition in the Gyárfás Jenő Gallery, organized by the Laczkó Dezső Museum from Veszprém
2007 – 2022 – March 15. Festive exhibitions, Târgu Secuiesc
2007 – Solo exhibition, Aux Anges pub, Cluj-Napoca
2007 – Maybe 2. Contemporary Art Expo, Gyárfás Jenő Gallery, Sfântu Gheorghe
2009 – Fresh Harvest, contemporary art exhibition, Vigadó Community Center Târgu Secuiesc
2010 – Magma, The Collection, contemporary art exhibition, Magma Contemporary Medium, Sfântu Gheorghe
2012 – Magma, The Collection, contemporary art exhibition, Magma Contemporary Medium, Sfântu Gheorghe
2013 – Family Business 2, contemporary art exhibition, Magma Contemporary Medium, Sfântu Gheorghe
2015 – Graphics Review I., II. International Graphic Art Biennale 2012 prize winners' exhibition, Casa cu Arcade (Lábasház), Sfântu Gheorghe
2015 – Family Business 4, contemporary art exhibition w...