PARALLEL ART FOUNDATION
Árpád Forgó & Abel Jallais
Objective case
2024, Oct 11 - Nov 9
Gallery East of Eden, Budapest
opening: 2024, Oct 11., 6-8pm
Following the 2024 Art Brussels OFF program, Gallery East of Eden in Budapest hosts the joint exhibition of Árpád Forgó and Abel Jallais.
At the exhibition, through exciting constellations, Forgó’s delicate shaped canvas compositions get in dialogue with the monochrome ceramic objects of Abel Jallais. Despite of working with different medium, their approach and processes share several similarities. They create non-representational objects, which do not intend to generate direct associations; the content of the work is its colour, shape, texture, size and scale.
Both artists developed his own basic forms, from which they build the artworks: Jallais is using additions, cut-outs and repetition in his “Bonbonne” series; Forgó is applying different reflection methods, as well as shifting. They create simple and visually controllable pieces that need to be observed and discovered.
Árpád Forgó works with basic geometric forms and through isometric transformations; he builds shaped canvas compositions, visualising structures, shapes, measurements and rhythm, as well as planar and spatial relationships. He developed shaped canvas modules in order to build block-like or hollow, symmetrical or asymmetrical compositions. In the recent years, he experiments intensively with different compound painting processes in order to challenge the viewer’s perception not only by the structure but also by the material.
Abel Jallais has an attraction to facing unknown objects; therefore, he peals off the functional territories of the archaic objects and transforms them into a free form of interpretation. They become a fictional territory again to explore, offering the opportunity to the passive user to open a new dialogue with the form. Sighing with the eyes, turning around, manipulating to return to a primitive form of primitive apprehension. His practice moves in this interstice. The fictional sense becomes the functional sense.
Both artists work with traditional materials, aiming for industrial perfection, still keeping the craftsmanship of the process.
Árpád Forgó is a Budapest-based artist. After his studies, he soon started to focus on geometric abstraction and made paintings with tactile feature. He has always been interested in the periphery of painting and sculpture. Since 2015, he creates shaped canvas works and modular compositions. He has exhibited widely, including solos shows at Anya Tish Gallery in Houston; Schlieder Contemporary in Frankfurt; Viltin Gallery, Budapest and Rómer Flóris Museum of Art and History in Győr, Hungary. He has participated in group shows, including Ludwig Museum and Vasarely Museum in Budapest, Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch, Germany. Artist residency programs play an important role in the artist’s career, he was invited to Norway, Australia, Spain, China and several times to the United States. In 2019-2020, he was a grantee of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Abel Jallais is a French-born ceramic artist living and working in Brussels. After his studies at the College of Fine Arts in Angers, where he concentrated on sculpture and drawing, he spent a year in Colombia, where he did an internship at Campo de Gutierrez artist residency centre, where ceramics played a major role. He had already been working with clay since his teenage years, and this experience strengthened his desire to explore this material further. On his return to Europe, he joined the master’s programme in ceramics at La Cambre National College of Visual Arts in Brussels, graduating in 2018. Since then, he has divided his time between his art practice at Espace Triphasé art studio and his work as a teacher at the Brussels Art Academy and as a teaching assistant at the ceramics department at La Cambre. His works have been exhibited at numerous galleries and art spaces in Brussels, including Galerie Cohérent, Musée du Cinquantenaire, Puls Ceramics Gallery and Espace La Vallée, as well as at international ceramics platforms in Belgium, The Netherlands and France.
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The program is realised in cooperation with Gallery East of Eden.
Curator: Gábor Pintér, Barna Erdész
Supported by Liszt Institute - Hungarian Cultural Center Brussels
Gallery East of Eden
1061 Budapest, Paulay Ede u. 67.
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+36 30 99 00 650
Opening hours: Tue-Sat 12-6pm
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