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Born 1972 in Budapest, Hungary
Hypothesis is one of the most important determining factors of Ádám Szabó's works. He deals with assumptions influencing his sculptural and artistic thinking and activity. His questions and suppositions are connected to geographical, natural forms, living organisms, chemical or physical processes.
The nature of sculpture is determined by what the artist molds from a given material by physical transformation. Ádám Szabó realized that this feature can be observed not only in art, but also in natural environment, since the geographical transforming processes show similar results in the case of erosion, melting, deposition or any other phenomenon showing changes in form.
Ádám Szabó's hypnotic videos, photos and sculptures are not the ending points of a carving process, on the contrary, they state the arbitrary construction of shapes. His films played backwards capture transformations, where the cracked off stone thickens the sculpture instead of thinning it down, and his new woodworks place the practice of plastic surgery and his theory on beauty into the world of nature – he replaces the knots and gnarls of living trees with immaculate substitutions, corrects the flaws of fruits by sawing patches on them, and with all of these, he meditates on the meaning, usefulness and moral boundaries of sculpture.
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 Ádám Szabó, The Little Warsaw receives the Munkácsy Award, 2008, Y-tong, 210x240x20 cm |
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 Ádám Szabó, Which First?, 2005, 2 pieces marble, video, 25 x 36,5 x 21 cm and 5,5 x 7x 5,5 cm, 2’00” loop |
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 Ádám Szabó, Which First?, 2005, 2 pieces marble, video, 25 x 36,5 x 21 cm and 5,5 x 7x 5,5 cm, 2’00” loop |
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 Adam Szabo, Which First?, Installation View, INDA Gallery Budapest |
