József Fülöp’s solo exhibition

József Fülöp (Miercurea Ciuc, 1982) is regularly present in the region’s exhibition spaces and his work has already been put on view in solo exhibitions several times. The present exhibition on display in the museum’s temporary exhibition space, the House of Arcades, summarises his work of the last ten years. For the artist, this retrospective provides an opportunity for a risky public self-assessment and contributes to the projection of a future creative horizon. For the audience, it provides insight into the consistency of the artist’s career, which in his case is characterised by a formal ascetic rigour.

The exhibition makes tangible the morphology of the artist’s visual language changing over time. However, József Fülöp’s art does not only work by filling space, but also communicates through the dimension of time. For this reason, the main organizing principle of the exhibition is centred around the artist’s sequential creative method. We can observe how an original gesture engages and re-empowers him through 10-20-100 variations. The programmatic repetition of human faces, gestures, social and biological abstractions urges the viewer to constantly revisit the multiplicity behind all uniqueness.

The exhibition was designed by artist Szilárd Miklós. The collaboration between the artist and the designer can be traced back to their student years at the István Nagy Art School in Miercurea Ciuc and the University of Fine Arts and Design in Cluj-Napoca.