On the occasion of the Kossuth Prize awarded El Kazovsky’s (1948, Saint Petersburg (Leningrad)– 2008, Budapest) 70th anniversary of birth, Várfok Gallery organizes a monumental, individual exhibition, where selected works will be on display, thus paying respect to the artist who cooperated with the Gallery since the early 1990s.
Despite his Russian origins, El Kazovsky quickly became one of the most characteristic figures of the Hungarian contemporary art scene. The artist has outstanding achievements not only in painting, but in the genre of performance and installation as well. The most comprehensive exhibition of El Kazovsky titled the Shadow of the Survivor took place at the Hungarian National Gallery in 2015.
The new exhibtion at Várfok Gallery focuses on the unattainable beauty ideals that are recurring motifs in the artist's work. The idols are presented in various ways, such as faceless, winged torsos, ballerinas, parkas, Venuses or swans.
