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ART AND ARTISTS SEINS SUR SEINE, 2015 BAS-RELIEF SCULPTURE 15.7X15.7 IN. | 40X40 CM.

LABYRINTH, 2016 BAS-RELIEF SCULPTURE 15.7X15.7 IN. | 40X40 CM.
FORUM BESTIARIUM, 2008 BAS-RELIEF SCULPTURE 36.2X36.2 IN. | 92X92 CM.

TAMPETE TROPICALE, 2013 BAS-RELIEF SCULPTURE 36.2X36.2 IN. | 92X92 CM.

ZOLTAN ZSAKO

Lives and works in Paris, France
https://zsako-zoltan.fr

Zsako’s art is unclassifiable. Sculpture it is then, since the artwork is three-
dimensional, and drawing as well, if one considers the fineness of the line.
But above all it is a scripture. A scripture that would have forgotten words
to make way to images linked by exuberant signatures, ultimate vestiges
of a lost tongue. His work, presenting itself as a glossary of revealed
fantasies – Hieronymus Bosch revisited by Dali – embarks one on a
journey to a wholly imaginary world. But, as opposed to the latters, Zoltan
doesn’t believe in an avenging God. He doesn’t recognize Hell, nor does
he believe in the Original Sin. Everything is paradise. Even when depicting
Evil or violence, his elegant creatures joyfully indulge in slaughter and
beheading, quite certain they will be granted unalterable redemption.
His creations therefore bring about an extraordinary sense of freedom,
the freedom of a style applied to an imaginary world in which any
constraint is abolished. The constant humour of this representation, at
times punctuated by an incongruous title, plays up his Edenic vision. One
may fathom that a life of eternal youth and symbiosis with animals exists
somewhere in a sort of universal amniotic fluid, a cosmic and generous
inner space only Zoltan has been able to access. (Gérard Landrot)

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