20th Century Art: A Different Perspective
20th Century Art: A Different Perspective
Solarium
Lot Closed
November 11, 02:26 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Attila Szűcs
Hungarian, b. 1967
Solarium
signed, titled, inscribed in Hungarian and dated 2002 on the overlap
oil on canvas
100 by 140cm., 39 by 55in.
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.
Works by Szűcs can be seen in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest and in Ludwig Museum, Budapest, among others.