Attila Szűcs

Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Cologne

Purchased from the above by the present owner in 2006

Cologne, Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Local News From Nowhere: Attila Szucs, 2006, p. 89, illustrated in the catalogue

Born in Miskolc in 1967, Attila Szűcs has lived and worked in Budapest since 1981. In his works, the artist invents a world that evokes a sense of mystery: believable, acutely familiar and tangible, yet also 'other' and eery. His interiors are often shrouded in a blur - a kind of mysterious fog - to this end. Their spooky quality is related to Freud's the concept of the uncanny (Unheimlichkeit), which unfolds in the tension between familiar and unknown, accustomed and unusual, living and inanimate. The present work, similarly to Two Red Beds, 1997 (Ludwig Museum, Budapest), cleverly evokes yet removes human beings. The scene is vaguely familiar but also speculative and has a captivating dreamlike quality.

Works by Szűcs can be seen in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and in Ludwig Museum, Budapest, among others.