Dezso Szabo
Born in Keszthely, 1967 and lives in Budapest
Dezső Szabó studied between 1990-97 at the Faculty of Painting of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Zsigmond Károlyi’s class. After his early monochrome paintings, his interest turned to photography.
Szabó’s photographs present scenes of disasters, natural phenomena, enigmatic or extreme locations, taken of precise small-scale DIY models inspired by scenes seen on television. In order to create this imagery, the artist has been modelling various physical phenomena with the use of smoke machines, water circulators, and pyrotechnics, or with the help of a custom-made Tesla-transformator, which creates electric discharges. With the re-creation of media images, as well as with recent series of photograms, he questions the working mechanisms of images and their contemporary status, criticizing the sensationalism of contemporary visual culture. Works in public collections: Hungarian National Gallery, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungarian Museum of Photography, among others.
