A brief description of my art
The starting point for my art is play; a free way of thinking that is closely intertwined with the behaviour and learning methods that define childhood. I work with a constantly contemplative, exploratory, open-minded attitude, using traditional sculptural foundations as a springboard. My sculptural tools are open, experimental.
Personal expression and intuition play an essential role in the creation of my works. I create my sculptures through emotions, feelings, technical questions and experiences. In my current work, I attempt to unlock the static, closed foundations of sculpture. I create signs, characters, groups of meaningful and abstract forms. From these elements, I build, rearrange, dismantle and rebuild compositions of varying scale, maintaining a kind of dialogue with our ever-changing physical world.
CV.
Melkovics Tamás
Born on 14. 03. 1987. Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Education:
-2002-2006 Secondary School of Art Pécs, sculpture major
-2006-2012 Hungarian University of fine Arts, BA and Ma in sculpture
-2011 Edinburgh College of Art - University of Edinburgh, erasmus
Language skills:
-English intermediate level
Resident programs,scholarships:
-Erasmus international scholarship, Edinburgh, 2011
-Műhely Foundation, Unknown research program, international scholarship, Budapest 2013
-Dream community’s scholarship, Taiwan, New Taipei city 2014
-BBK Kulturwerk Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2015
-Derkovits Gyula Fine Art Scholarship, 2018 Budapest
-Spring exhibition Dunaújváros, Best exhibitor, 2018, ICA-D, Dunaújváros
-Derkovits Gyula Fine Art Scholarship, 2020 Budapest
-Derkovits Gyula Fine Art Scholarship, 2021 Budapest
Works in public collections:
-A rontott vonal morfológiája 1, István Csók Gallery, Székesfehérvár
-Monomer form seria, Budapest History Museum – Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
-Dark indigo seria 2, ICA-D Institute of contemporary art, Dunaújváros
-Modular composition 5. Ferenczy Museum, Szentendre
Memberships:
-MAOE
-Hungarian sculpture society
-Baguda association
Solo exhibitions:
-Panta Rhei, Ferencyz muzeum, 2022 Szentendre
-Morfologick, Várfok Gallery Project Room, 2019, Budapest
-Growing structures, Parthenón-fríz hall, 2017, Budapest
Selected group exhibitions:
-Drafting futures, Q-Contemporary, 2022 Budapest
-YouHu, Kieselbach Gallery, 2022 Budapest
-Esterházy Art Award, Scholarship exhibition, Ludvig Museum, 2021Budapest
-Derkó2021, Scholarship exhibition, Kunsthalle Műcsarnok, 2021, Budapest
-Horisont, Bartók1 Gallery, 2020, Budapest
-Introspection, ICA-D Institute of contemporary art, 2020, Dunaújváros
-Sculptures under the sky, MANK régi művésztelep, 2020, Szentendre
-Derkó2020, Scholarship exhibition, Kunsthalle Műcsarnok, 2020, Budapest
-Wunderkammer, ÚjMűhely Gallery, 2020, Szentendre
-Annual exhibition of Fejér county, István Cók gallery, 2019, Székesfehérvár
-Harvest, ÚjMűhely Gallery, 2019, Szentendre
-Ferrum, ICA-D Institute of contemporary art , 2019, Dunaújváros
-BAUHAUS 100, Vasarely Museum, 2019, Budapest
-Life jacket, M21 Gallery, 2018, Pécs
-Forenoon, Eleven Blokk, 2018, Budapest
-Annual exhibition of Fejér county, ICA-D Institute of contemporary art , 2018, Dunaújváros
-Derkó2018, Scholarship exhibition, Kunsthalle Műcsarnok, 2018, Budapest
-Annual exhibition of Fejér county, ICA-D Institute of contemporary art , 2017, Dunaújváros
-Autism as a metaphor, ICA-D Institute of contemporary art , 2017, Dunaújváros
-Born in a studio, MANK gallery, Szentendre, 2016
-Annual exhibition of Fejér county, István Cók gallery, 2015, Székesfehérvár
-Space bending and crosstalk, Art mill, 2015 Szentendre
-Dadama, ASZMH, House of free culture, Székesfehérvár, 2014
-Annual exhibition of Fejér county, ICA-D Institute of contemporary art , 2014, Dunaújváros
-Fresh 2012 empathy/manipulation, Kogart, 2012, Budapest
-ECA Sculpture show, Sculpture Court Edinburgh College Of Art, Edinburgh Scotland, 2012
-Throbbing serenity, ArtBLOKK, 2012, Budapest
-Best of diploma, Hungarian University of fine Arts, 2012, Budapest
-Annual exhibition of Fejér county, ICA-D Institute of contemporary art , 2010, Dunaújváros