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Year Created

2019

Year Acquired

2023

Cultures

Canadian

Medium

Colour photo

Art Forms

Photograph

Cyclops

by: David Zsako


Preservation, investigation, contemplation, and aestheticization are the fundamental principles of my work. Part biological study, part design practice, and part sociological investigation; I aim to overwhelm the visual senses through the use of ornate visual organization using inherently complex subjects and subject matter.

Using experimental photographic techniques, melded together creating a tug of war aesthetic in a struggle between the micro and the macro, the beautiful and the grotesque; my work insists careful visual consideration. By delving deeper into the works, they start to reveal a plethora of new open ended inquiries as sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious, biological and social commentary. My creations are a combination of the photo realistic, the abstract, the figurative and the baroque. My artwork explores aspects of the human condition and our relationship with the natural by investigating such themes as identity, hegemony, violence, sustenance, life, death, rebirth and interpretation of beauty.

The images I create are a flow of intricacy, detail, balance, and colour. Viewed from a distance the works are kaleidoscopic, anthemic, and abundant in symmetry. Viewed up close they reveal their own biology and inner workings, sometimes revealing the grotesque building blocks the works are built from.

My goal is to bring pleasure, joy, wonder and fascination to the interactions of my work. I aim to challenge man-made constructs, natural inevitabilities, and manmade preventability.


Small portrait David Zsako

I was born in Budapest Hungary in 1983 and immigrated to Canada with my family in 1989. I grew up in southern Ontario, and received a BFA degree, majoring in photography, from NSCAD University in 2006. I currently live in Baie Verte NB. I have been actively practicing digital photo assemblage since the early 2000’s. With the evolution of computer technology and imaging software I am able to finally bring to life the complexity of work that I envisioned from the onset with my relationship with photography. My creations are a combination of the photo realistic, the abstract, the figurative and the baroque. My artwork explores aspects of the human condition by investigating such themes as identity, hegemony, violence, sustenance, life, death, rebirth and interpretation of beauty. My works emphasize subject matter and demand a close critical observation through my use of alternative means of painting with light. My works are part science project and part design practice using experimental photographic techniques, melded together creating a tug of war aesthetic in a struggle between the micro and the macro, the beautiful and the grotesque. I aim to explore timeless natural experiences such as creation, destruction, and re-creation. All of my source material is dead and decaying that I acquire from a variety of different sources. Viewed from a distance the works are kaleidoscopic, anthemic, and abundant in symmetry. Viewed up close they reveal their own biology and inner workings, sometimes revealing the grotesque building blocks the works are built from.

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