Imre Kocsis

Imre Kocsis (* 1937 in Karcag , Hungary ; † 1991 in Kalterherberg ) was a Hungarian-German concrete-constructive graphic artist .

Life

Kocsis began his studies at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in 1958. After his first solo exhibition in the Leonhart Gallery in Munich (1965), he moved to Düsseldorf in 1971 . In 1978/82 Kocsis had a guest studio in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In the 1980s, he stayed at PS1 in New York (now MoMA PS1 ) as well as a visiting professor at the School of Fine Arts, Sculpture Department in Reykjavík ( Iceland ). In 1989 he received the Karl Ernst Osthaus Prize from the city of Hagen . In 2009 the Ingolstadt Foundation for Concrete Art and Design took over part of the estate.

The Hungarian Kocsis, who emigrated to Germany in 1959, worked with the media of graphics and drawings from the 1960s. Already in his early work, the artist examined spatial illusions that were not so much produced by a graphic technique, but rather remained hidden behind the graphic structure. Around 1968 Kocsis reduced his color palette and developed a simple and "concrete-constructive design language". In mostly large-scale pictures, Kocsis dealt with central compositions, diagonals, staggered forms, circular shapes, surface displacements and optical irritations . Even in these early works he concentrated on the "non-colors" black and white.

In the following creative phase, Kocsis went from pictorial space to real space. In doing so, he isolated the black areas from the pictures and mounted the detached parts of the picture in interior design . Object installations were created from pressboard beams that were placed on the floor, directed against the walls, leaned or mounted. The focus was on the one hand on the real space - which the beams took up for themselves - and on the other hand on an imaginary space that unfolded through perception between the viewer and the work. In this context, the recipient becomes an active participant in a spatial experience that divides and divides the space through horizontal, vertical and diagonal arrangements of the bars. New rooms are explored that are real and accessible.

Imre Kocsis was a member of the German Association of Artists .

literature

• Tobias Hoffmann (Ed.): Artist of the Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt (Volume 1). Foundation for Concrete Art and Design Ingolstadt, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2012. ISBN 3-86832-133-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ skkd-ingolstadt.de: artist Imre Kocsis (accessed on September 16, 2015)
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Kocsis, Imre ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 16, 2015)