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Check out the virtual exhibition Shadow of Passion by Hungarian-born New York artist STEVEN BALOGH in the online exhibition space of the Hungarian Cultural Institute in New York!
STEVEN BALOGH was born as Istvan Vilmos Balogh in Hungary in 1954. His activity as a visual artist in Hungary, spanning approximately nine years, the first segment of Balogh’s oeuvre began with his conceptual language-motivated works, body-art performances and environments in the seventies. Continued with his figurative acrylic and oil paintings in the early eighties. His conceptually-toned graphic works explore the possibilities inherent in the manipulation of information in the form of printed texts and images. Texts, fragments of texts, found sentences-as well as their repainting, covering and destruction- also appear in Balogh’s photo-based works, most of which document action or performance art, even as autonomous elements that render the event uncertain, or just the opposite: more concrete.
In 1986 he left Hungary and he spent seven months as refugee in the Flüchtlingslager of Traiskirchen, Austria. His passport was confiscated, his official status was stateless person. In the same year based on a decision by the United Nations Office in Vienna, he was granted asylum to 19 countries.
He arrived to the United States on November 20, 1986, with nothing but a plastic bag of the International Rescue Committee containing a few personal items of necessity. He settled down in New York City, and live, work there ever since. In 1995 he became US citizen and changed his name to Steven Balogh, he signs his artworks under this name.
Steven Balogh’s art figures in the permanent collections of museums in the US and Hungary. He has participated in dozens of group exhibirions in Europe, the USA and Asia with great artists: e.g. Matisse, Christo and Mapplethorpe. He had 20 solo exhibitions, 4 of them recently in New York City.
The exhibition will be available to the public for a month from April 28 under this link.