Gábor Záborszky – Wikipedia

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Gábor Záborszky (* April 17, 1950 in Budapest; † 11 January 2023 [first] ) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.

In 1974 Záborszky graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest in the Department of Painting. He then completed a postgraduate degree department graphic and mural technology. In 1977 he received the three-year Derkovits scholarship and became professor in 1980 at the Budapest technical school for visual and applied art.

Since then, Záborszky has participated in numerous congresses and international art presentations all over the world. 1983 at the Congress “Graphics of the Metal Plate” in Grado (Italy) and at the invitation of the San Francisco World Print Council at a two -year presentation of the 100 world’s best graphic works in large museums in the USA. His work was on the 39th Biennale in Venice and at the 12th Biennale in Paris (1982). In 1987, together with Katalin Bodo, he founded the Z/Art Foundation in Budapest, which was one of the initiators and founders of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest. In 1988 he was a guest of the Basel and guest of the Graz Academy. In 1989 his work appeared in the album “Contemporary Prints of the World I-II”, Misool Gong Ron Sa., Which was put together on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Seoul. This was followed by participation in the International Paper Symposium, Kyoto (1995). He received several scholarships from the city of Bonn and in 1993 from the city of Munich. In 1999 he was a guest of the University of Art (Philadelphia).

Záborszky died on January 11, 2023 after a long serious illness at the age of 72. [first]

Today it is one of the most important contemporary artists in Hungary. Works by Zaborszky are located in numerous museums and collections, such as in the Albertina in Vienna, in the Kunstmuseum Bonn, in the Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum – Ludwig Museum and in the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest, in the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs, in the Kunsthalle in Szombathely, in the Kortárs Museum in Skopje (Macedonia), in the Municipal Museum in Kyoto (Japan), in the National Museum in Stettin (Poland) and in the Museum of Graphic Art in Giza (Egypt).

Solo exhibitions [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • 1998 Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
  • 2000 István Galerie Rozsics, Budapest
  • 2002 Retrospective, urban museum Győr
  • 2003 Introduction to the Alchemy, Haus der Künste, Veszprém
  • 2004 The dream of the watercolor painter, Kunsthalle Budapest
  • 2005 Galerie closed, Budapest
  • 2006 The dream at the Etna, Museum Modern Art – Wörlen Passau Foundation
  • 2006 The dream at Etna, Al Galéria, Budapest
  • 2006 The dream at Etna, Schloss Economy, Eggenfelden
  • In 2009 Spontanität, Dengler and Dengler, Stuttgart
  • 2016 Fugues / Fugues, Ludwig Museum Budapest
  • 2020 in search of the middle, Dengler and Dengler, Stuttgart

Group exhibitions [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

  • 1998 Hungary Avantgarde in the 20th century, new gallery of the city of Linz, Linz
  • 2001 Időhíd – Zeitbrücke, Hungarian art in the 20th century, Museum Modern Art – Foundation Wörlen, Passau
  • 2002 in a double mirror. Contemporary art from Austria and Hungary, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
  • 2003 Water in Attersee, Kunsthalle Attersee, Katt, Attersee
  • 2005 positions in the Romanian and Hungarian contemporary art. Pictures from the collection of Gábor Hunya, Romanian Cultural Institute, Vienna
  • 2008 Rendez vous of friends. Seven Hungarian artists, Dengler and Dengler, Stuttgart
  • 2012 20 years / Hungary Reloaded, Gallery Gaudens Pedit, Lienz
  • 2012 Article, BTM – Budapest Galerie, Budapest
  • 2016 Image Tactics / Image Tactics, Ludwig Museum Budapest
  • 1982 Prize of the jury, 6th Norwegian International Graphic Biennale, Frederikstad
  • 1995 Munkácsy-Preis, Budapest
  • 2006 Hungarian State Prize for Art (Érdemes Művesz), Budapest
  • Gábor Ébli, Gábor Záborzky, Balassi Publisher, Budapest 2004
  • László F. Földényi – Jade Niklai, Gábor Záborszky, (hrg. Nyuszifül Bt) 2001
  1. ↑ a b Népszava: Gábor Záborzky died. Accessed on January 12, 2023 (Hungarian).