Wolsky András artist with Ferenc Kumin, Ambassador of Hungary in London
An exhibition by Dóra Maurer's pupil András Wolsky, entitled Directed Chance, opened on 19 May 2023 at the Liszt Institute in London. The exhibition, which will be open free of charge for two months, is a worthy continuation of the highly successful exhibition "Dóra Maurer's Disciples", which was held at the Tate Modern in 2021. The exhibition, which was opened by Ambassador Ferenc Kumin, presents the result of creation and intentional chance through twelve works.
The artist highlighted at the opening: ,,It is the combination and confrontation of these two parts that creates the pictorial structure. For more than 25 years, the concept has been the same for every single image, I have only made small changes, I have taken small steps, but these small steps give me quite different results. There is an open and unknown part of my creations involving generated chance, I don't know how the image is built up during creation. Part of my concept is that I don't compose, I don't weigh, and I don't override the structure built by my set of rules and chance. The end result, the finished image (which has a definite moment of completion) is as new to me as it is to anyone else. By consistently submitting to my set of rules and not tampering with them, I have found that a lot of visual elements are created in my work that I certainly could not have planned. Two things in my work interest me beyond the excitement of flow-like play, the order behind the often chaotic visual structures, and the unpredictability and chaos behind the pure disorder in the images."
András Wolsky was born in Budapest. He graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1998 with a degree in Intermedia, preceded by a degree in Painting and a degree in Graphic Design. In 1995, he was awarded a scholarship from the International Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg, and in 1996 he was awarded an Artist in Residence scholarship from the Collegium Hungaricum in Paris. András Wolsky has been a member of the National Association of Hungarian Artists since 1996 and of the Studio of Young Artists Association since 1997. As a student of Dóra Maurer, he was awarded the STRABAG Painting Prize in 2000 and the Fine Arts Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Rome in 2001. He was awarded the Barcsay Prize in 2002. András Wolsky has also been a member of the Open Structures Art Society (OSAS) since 2013. In 2014, he was awarded the Mouans-Sartoux Espace de l'Art Concret residency scholarship in France.