Busacca Gallery

Artist Istvan Orosz: The etching series 'Absence' shows the world in inverse which can be seen as a metaphor of the unpronounced or invisible things that are more important than the pronunced and visible ones, which the artist suppresses, or does not show.

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

Istvan Orosz (b. 24 October 1951; Kecskemet), 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.