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Ambrus Gero
Ambrus Gero is a Hungarian visual artist who currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. He creates kinetic sculptures, installations and oil paintings that express his concept of unity and human alienation. He majored in painting at University of Pecs, in Hungary. After completing his first MFA, Gero went on to participate in group exhibitions in the United States, Hungary, Slovenia, Denmark, and Germany. He earned his second MFA, majoring in painting again from Pratt Institute (2020). His solo exhibition Masks in Rave was in collaboration with The Garment District Space For Public Arts, NY (2022). Recent group exhibitions have been in cooperation with ChaShaMa at ChaShaMa Gal a 2023, Wassai c Project, NY (2022-2023), Paradic e Palase, Brooklyn (2022), Pratt Ma nhattan Gallery (2022), link to the virtual exhibition, Super Dutchess Gallery - now Below Grand - (2020), Fashion Institute of Technology New York (2019), Carlsberg City Gallery & Art Salon Exhibition during Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen (2019), and Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany (2010). He is attending Wassaic Project’s Summer Residency this summer (2023). Gero attended The Other Art Fair Brooklyn (2022) and Future Fair, NY (2023). Gero won the international People’s Choice Award from Jackson’s Open Painting Prize in 2018. Gero has been a recipient of awards including The Most Positive Artist Award at Wam Design Gallery, Budapest (2008). Conceptual Garden, his first national architectural design won first prize at the Vaci Green Competition (2011). He received special funding for his public art project named Art Blankets for Picnic (2019). He was awarded the Pratt in Venice Scholarship, The Carlow Memorial Scholarship, The Virginia Pratt Thaye Scholarship in 2019 and Barrett Endowed Scholarship in 2020. His works were acquired by public and private art collections such as Erste Foundation (2010) and Data Foundation (2014). He has been featured in a catalog Field: Site-in-Process, a collaborative studio, exhibition, and research within Expanded Field practices, NY (2019), and in an interview Jackson’s Open Painting Prize, ‘Ambrus ‘Brush’ Gero: Between Reality and Fantasy’ interview by Daniel Brady (2019).

Work
Kinetic Sculptures:

Flying Cocktail Table

2022

Styrene plastic, plastic, paper, faux fur, faux hay, mirror, fan

31 x 53 x 86 inches

Filmed by Vadim Aynbinder

"Flying Cocktail Table" is meant to serve drinks at social events, such as opening receptions, to allow people to enjoy and celebrate life. The sculpture "Flying Cocktail Table" represents a table lavishly decorated with cocktail party supplies, plastic glasses, and celebratory decor. Faux fur is used to create its surface, and plastic glasses are used as props for the colorful cocktail glasses. There is a disco ball above the center of the waving table that reflects circular light patterns, slowly turns around, and gives an even more vibrant and moving sensation to the table. The scattering of the lights by the surface of the disco ball creates a colorful sensation that adds to the surreal sense of the table. At the public event, participants create a circle around the installation. Two industrial fans underneath the table create a strong airflow that lifts the table into the air. This year (2022) I hosted a "Flying Cocktail Party" for my friends, which served as the inspiration for this project.

Flying Dining Table

2022

Styrene plastic, cotton, plastic, paper, pancake, jam, pudding, mirror, fruit, fan

31 x 43,5 x 78 inches

Filmed by Vadim Aynbinder

At the events open to the public, eight chairs are placed around "Flying Dining Table" where the public can take their seat, creating a circle out of the participants. I invite visitors and friends to use my sculpture as a dining table. Instead of having a static relationship between the viewers and the artwork, the active interaction with the kinetic object is an integral part of the artwork. Gathering around meals is an essential part of social life for people. The functionality of the flying tables establishes its importance by taking that aspect of engagement and increasing it. The project “Flying Dining Table” blends art and social practices. The questions that gave birth to this work was "What kind of fun project brings people together?" and "How is this project catalyzing synergy of the participants?" I consider the quality of the artistic product and its social impact equally important. I believe the participants feel more connected through the shared common experience, when this occurs my project is considered successful.

Ambrus Gero's Artist Statement For Paintings

My paintings start with researched images on the Internet and taking photographs. I dislocate those photographic elements from their temporal and original contexts, giving them emphasis by placing them within a painterly landscape. After a digital sketch, I create oil paintings focusing on contrast, saturated colors, composition, and visual dynamics. The ambiguity of the images come from the anonymity of the objects and the characters, blurred animalistic identities, and the intimate relationships conjured once the primer motifs and the backgrounds are combined. The digitally manipulated environments of the contemporarily relevant objects and my superheroes navigate the viewer to an imagined narrative.

Status
Single

Former Girlfriends
Kinga, Filomena, Dalma, Jessenia, Melissa