This first extensive monograph on the Austrian/Hungarian artist Andreas Fogarasi covers twenty years of his work, with large-scale, full-color images, new essays by Damian Lentini and Flóra Gadó, and an interview with the artist by Heike Eipeldauer. In his conceptual practice, which merges methods of abstraction and documentarism, Fogarasi engages with the histories of cultural production, with architecture, design, and urbanism. The resulting sculptural works explore how social values, power relations, and national self-images are inscribed in forms, surfaces, and urban spaces.
Heike Eipeldauer is a curator at mumok in Vienna. Andreas Fogarasi (b. 1977) lives and works in Vienna. Fogarasi’s work has been exhibited widely in Europe and beyond, with solo exhibitions held at numerous venues — including Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, GfZK, Leipzig, and Trafó Gallery, Budapest — as well as at the Hungarian Pavilion at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia, where he was awarded the Golden Lion. Flóra Gadó is an independent curator and writer based in Brussels and Budapest. Damian Lentini is deputy director and chief curator at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen.
