Gábor Záborszky

Gábor Záborszky (born April 17, 1950 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian painter and graphic artist .

Education and career

In 1974 Záborszky graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest with a degree in painting. He then completed postgraduate studies in the Department of Graphics and Mural Technology. In 1977 he received the three-year Derkovits scholarship and in 1980 became a professor at the Budapest School of Fine and Applied Arts.

Since then, Záborszky has participated in numerous congresses and international art presentations around the world. a. 1983 at the "Graphics from Metal Plate" congress in Grado (Italy) and at the invitation of the San Francisco World Print Council at a two-year presentation of the world's 100 best graphic works in major US museums. His work was shown at the 39th Venice Biennale and the 12th Paris Biennale (1982). In 1987, together with Katalin Bodo, he founded the Z / ART Foundation in Budapest, which was one of the initiators and founders of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest. 1988 guest at the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel and guest at the Graz Academy. In 1989 his work appeared in the album "Contemporary Prints of the World I-II", Misool Gong Ron SA., Which was compiled on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Seoul. Participation in the International Paper Symposium, Kyoto (1995). He received several scholarships so u. a 1993 from the city of Bonn and 1996 from the city of Munich. In 1999 he was a guest at the University of Art (Philadelphia).

meaning

Today he is one of the most important contemporary artists in Hungary. Works by Zaborszky can be found in numerous museums and collections, such as the Albertina in Vienna, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum - Ludwig Museum and the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs, the Kunsthalle in Szombathely, in the Kortárs Museum in Skopje (Macedonia), in the Municipal Museum in Kyoto (Japan), in the National Museum in Szczecin (Poland) and in the Museum of Graphic Art in Giza (Egypt).

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 1998 Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
• 2000 István Rozsics Gallery, Budapest
• 2002 Retrospective, City Museum Győr
• 2003 Introduction to Alchemy, House of Arts, Veszprém
• 2004 The Watercolor Painter's Dream, Budapest Art Gallery
• 2005 Gallery Zárt, Budapest
• 2006 The dream on Etna, Museum of Modern Art - Foundation Wörlen Passau
• 2006 The dream on Etna, AL Galéria, Budapest
• 2006 The dream on Etna, Schloss Ökonomie Gern, Eggenfelden

Group exhibitions

• 1998 Hungary avant-garde in the 20th century, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Linz
• 2001 Időhíd - Time Bridge, Hungarian Art in the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art - Wörlen Foundation, Passau
• 2002 In the double mirror. Contemporary art from Austria and Hungary, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
• 2003 Water in Attersee, Kunsthalle Attersee, KATT, Attersee
• 2005 positions in Romanian and Hungarian contemporary visual arts. Pictures from the collection of Gábor Hunya, Romanian Cultural Institute, Vienna
• 2008 Rendez-vous of friends. Seven Hungarian artists, Dengler and Dengler, Stuttgart

Awards

• 1982 Jury Prize, 6th Norwegian International Biennial of Graphics, Frederikstad
• 1995 Munkácsy Prize, Budapest
• 2006 Hungarian State Prize for Art (Érdemes művesz), Budapest

literature

• Ébli Gábor, Záborszky Gábor, Balassi Kiadó, Budapest 2004
• László F. Földényi - Jade Niklai, Záborszky Gábor, (Ed. Nyuszifül Bt) 2001