Work of Art in Focus – December 2023
In December 2023, Kíra Dorottya Krász's series entitled "From Marble to Stone: The Nagyharsány-based Statue Park Project" was selected as this month's Work of Art in Focus. This series is showcased in the scope of the exhibition entitled "GENERATIONS" in Pesti Vagadó's 5th floor Exhibition Hall until 25th February.
Kíra Dorottya Krász - From Marble to Stone: The Nagyharsány-based Statue Park Project 2020 – 2023 (miscellaneous techniques)
This photo exhibition presents works by scholarship winners of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. Most of the artists present traditional photographs, and there are also special experimental works such as artworks by Kíra Dorottya Krász. Although these works are photo-based, Kíra Dorottya Krász reinterprets the sculptures of Nagyharsány and gives them a personalised touch by adding different materials, textiles and paper to the images as well as by using gluing techniques. This series of hers deals with the sculptures showcased in the Nagyharsány-based Statue Park. The images are based on photographs of sculptures of different sizes, styles and materials erected in the Statue Park, and the artist transforms these photos in imaginative and unexpected ways to create her own "paper sculptures".
"My aim is to preserve, through my own works, not only the visible physical forms of these sculptures but also their inner worlds for posterity,"
Kíra Dorottya Krász explains.
Kíra Dorottya Krász - From Marble to Stone: The Nagyharsány-based Statue Park Project 2020 – 2023 (miscellaneous techniques)
Kíra Dorottya Krász was born in Pécs (Hungary) in 1995.
Her studies include:
2019: Photography (BA with hons)
2016 – 2019: University of Brighton, School of Media, United Kingdom; Photography
2014 – 2016: Athéné Vocational Secondary School, Budapest, Hungary; specialisation in visual merchandising and creative design
Kíra Dorottya Krász has had several solo and group exhibitions, and is now presenting her artworks as a scholarship winner of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
Kíra Dorottya Krász's artworks can be seen at the exhibition entitled Generations in The Pesti Vigadó until 25th February 2024.
