Busacca Gallery

Artist Istvan Orosz: The etching 'Chateau Chateau' is the fascinating spectacle of a chateau, most likely due to its symmetry: its left and righthand sides are each other's mirror-images. István Orosz was born in Hungary in 1951. He was trained as a graphic designer at the University of Arts and Design in Budapest. After graduation in 1975, he became involved with theatre, as a stage designer, (sometimes as an actor as well) and animated film. Later when Poster Art came to the center of his interest, he began to design theatre, movie and exhibition posters. Under the influence of Eastern-European democratic changes he drew some political posters as well.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Orosz

Istvan Orosz (b. 24 October 1951; Kecskemet, Hungary), a Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director, is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphosises. The geometric art of Istvan Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical illusions, has been compared to works by M. C. Escher.



He studied at the Hungarian University of Arts and Design (now Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) in Budapest as pupil of Istvan Balogh and Erno Rubik. After graduating in 1975 he began to deal with theatre as a stage designer and animated films as an animator and a film director. He is known as a painter, printmaker, poster designer and illustrator, as well. He likes to use visual paradox, double meaning images and illusionistic approaches while following traditional printing techniques such as woodcutting and etching. He also tries to renew the technique of anamorphosis. He is a regular participant at the major international biennials of posters and graphic art and his work has been shown in individual and group exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. He often uses "Utisz" (or Utis/Outis) from Greek (meaning 'No-body')as an artist's pseudonym.