Peter Panyoczki · 'RE-FLECTIONS'

Peter Panyoczki

CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND ART 280 Parnell Road Auckland New Zealand Ph: +64 9 303 1090 artis@artisgallery.co.nz www.ArtisGallery.co.nz

RE-FLECTIONS All works are available for sale upon receipt of this catalogue. The entire exhibition can be viewed at www.artisgallery.co.nz Recognition 2, mixed media on wood 500 x 350 x 190 mm

Illustrated cover: (Detail) Hotbed

Mixed media on aluminium 1690 x 1220 mm

Life is a Dream

Mixed media on aluminium 1200 x 1200 mm

Not Quite Black Book

Mixed media, paper & wood 330 x 150 x 195 mm

Not Quite White Book

Mixed media, paper & wood 330 x 150 x 195 mm

Narcissus Pond

Mixed media on alluminium 1200 x 1200 mm

For Now We See Only a Reflection Mixed media and glass on aluminium 1220 x 930 mm

RE-FLECTIONS Definition: the reflection of light and the serious thought or consideration

We live in a strange world that has turned our way of life upside down. But accompanied by this fact, it is maybe the time itself, whose weight accumulated in ones life (talking about myself, living in the autumn of it) and makes us consider about the essence of being here. I believe, that art has the capacity to express the primary, and perhaps invisible subtext, which can not be expressed by words.

In the beginning of this year I have approached a realm, which was unknown to me and made me dive into an unchartered psychological journey.

I had a stroke that deprived my language. My verbal communication came to a halt and I couldn’t make meaningful sense. I had the feeling, that I was in a forest of ruined words, which were like hurdles of trees, I had to climb over in order to give them shape again.

Recognition 3, mixed media on wood, 520 x 360 x 190 mm

Shortly after coming home from hospital, I went into my studio. This was my starting point for my exhibition. My light fell over the vulnerability of our senses and revised paths of my thinking and art. I remembered the most beautiful and truly appropriate text of Paul to the Corinthians (1-13)

“For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”

These words serve as my guiding rope. Each of my works represent generally “poetic” or “metaphoric” elements, that can be combined into a multifaceted narrative.The number of art works in an exhibition is limited. Nevertheless here they suggest an expression of RE-FLECTION, in part of a retrospective of my past artistic positions, a glimpse to my own history, a series of open, unwritten but enigmatic “books”, but also in a greater sense, a hint into our cultural origin.

Peter Panyoczki, August 2021

Self Reflection with a Blurry Mirror Mixed media Each panel 360 mm x 360 mm

Once Were Humans, Weren’t There

Mixed media on prams 690 x 620 x 400 mm

Gold Book

Mixed media on aluminium 1200 x 1200 mm

Purgatorium

Mixed media on aluminium 1200 x 1200 mm

Babylon 2

Mixed media on aluminium 1200 x 1200 mm

Flow

Mixed media on aluminium 1200 x 1200 mm

White Book, No Comments Mixed media on aluminium 820 x 920 mm

How Can I Be

Mixed media on aluminium 630 x 630 mm

Where Am I If Not Here

Mixed media on aluminium 630 x 630 mm

Black Book, No Comment Mixed media on aluminium 820 x 920 mm

XY

Mixed media on aluminium 600 x 600 mm

Playground, Purgatorium 1 Mixed media on aluminium 600 x 600 mm -

Featured on the back of the catalogue

Last Letter

Mixed media on aluminium 1200 x 1200 mm

Recognition 3

Mixed media on wood 520 x 360 x 190 mm

Recognition, Everybody Carries Their Own Burden Mixed media on wood 500 x 240 x 190 mm

Peter Panyoczki is an internationally renowned artist working in a hybrid of forms and mediums including painting, sculpture, installation, photography and digital technology.

Panyoczki’s works explore themes of place & identity, as well as the origins and expression of life and nature. A common feature in Panyoczki’s works is the presence of texture, be it actual surface texture or the representation thereof in photographic media.

The textured surfaces are evocative, forming notions of one’s past and inner self, or that which has been buried and forgotten.

Panyoczki has an extensive international exhibition history with representation in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe, Asia, USA, Russia and New Zealand.

ACADEMIC HISTORY 1980 University of Zurich, Master of Arts (German Language and Literature, Art History) COMMISSION 2014 – Schindlerdörfli, Emmenbrücke/Luzern, Switzerland 2006 – Raiffeisenbank Cham, Switzerland 2001 – Raiffeisenbank Aarau, Switzerland 1997 – Winterthur Versicherungen, Hauptsitz Zurich 1996 – Sparkasse Waedenswil (bank building) 1995 – Oberstufenschulhaus Wollerau (school) 1994 – Haus der Schweiz in Berlin (house of Switzerland) CS- Bank Schanzengraben, Zurich 1992 – Sparkasse Horge, Switzerland Sparcassa, Affoltern a. Albis, Switzerland 1989 – Model ag, Weinfelden, Switzerland COLLECTIONS Erziehungsdepartement Zurich UBS, Zurich Credit Suiss, Zurich Credit Suisse Berlin, Germany Bank Leu Schweizer rueck, Zurich Nordfinanzbank, Zurich The City Council of Wettingen, Switzerland Publicitas, Baden, Switzerland Zuercher Kantonalbank, Zurich Wsa- Company, (large collection), Switzerland Zuerich-Versicherungen, Zofingen Winterthur Versicherung, Zurich Trifina AG, (large collection), Zurich New Zealand Post, Wellington Swiss Embassy, Wellington Kunsthaus Richterswil, Switzerland Firma de kalb, Frankfurt, Germany Jenny Gibbs Collection, Auckland James Wallace Collection, Auckland Raiffeisenbank, Zurich Julius Baer, Zurich Bank Von Tobel, Zurich Bank Cantrade, Zurich Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Nagako-cho, Tokyo RESIDENCIES 2018 – Selected by Sir James Wallace Arts Trust for Artist in Residence Program in Vladivostok (June to October) 1993 – Art Residence in Budapest

Stirring Up The Washing Mixed media on wood 1870 x 530 x 300 mm

CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND ART 280 Parnell Road Auckland New Zealand Ph: +64 9 303 1090 artis@artisgallery.co.nz www.ArtisGallery.co.nz