Zsuzsa Lukacs

Hungarian architect and designer Barna D. Kovacs sees the world in emergent multiforms and composite geometrical structures. 

Completing a master’s degree at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts, he has recently co-founded a company, Barna Architects, in Budapest. 2007 he was the recipient of a scholarship to Istanbul’s Marmara University, where he focused his research on Islamic geometries.

The question that art poses is intricate in determining whether quantity is more satisfying than quality. In the world of industrialization the things that are in the forefront are passing and hollow. We seem to be elusive, even inert to its lethal effects to the point of driving our very existence into a dire destructible state. We are cautioned, but man is too frail to counter attack, and he is sucked right in.

The Month of Graphics (May 28 - Jun. 18)

This month, Kro Art Gallery is featuring something quite scientific. Ina Loitzl has successfully conducted a meticulous microscopic investigation of vital human organs. Her delved scientific studies finally metamorphosed to experimental craftsmanship for she projected the marvels of nature onto man made materials like plastic and textile, thereby exposing the feeble and brittle trusted body parts of the human corpse, like the sexual organs, the lungs, and the heart. Furthermore, her multi-medial makes use of prints and video films in a novel-like way.

Knoll Galerie
Mara Mattuschka (Feb. 10- April 10)

Mattuschka, painter, performance artist, and film maker will display her work beginning on Feb. 10, whereby visitors can experience the primeval realm of the artist. Through the eyes of Mattuschka, human beings are reduced to a very simple state that endows man with merely a body and an ego. “Man is a lack,” she states. She also describes him as an “imperfection” because he is incapable of producing anything without the aid of an apparatus and the support of his environment.