Ferenczy Museum | Panta rhei. The solo exhibition of Tamás Melkovics

Tamás Melkovics (1987, Székesfehérvár) graduated from Ádám Farkas’s class at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2012. A member of the National Association of Hungarian Artists and of the Hungarian Sculptors’ Association, in 2018 and 2021 he was awarded the Derkovits Gyula art scholarship. In 2017 he had a solo exhibition at the Parthenon Friese Hall, and in 2019 in Várfok Gallery’s Project Room. He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Budapest, Szentendre, Székesfehérvár, Dunaújváros, Pécs, and Edinburgh. His works can be found in private and public collections, the latter including the Ferenczy Museum Centre, the Csók István Gallery of Székesfehérvár, the Kiscell Museum – Metropolitan Gallery, and the ICA-D Institute of Contemporary Art in Dunaújváros.
Tamás Melkovics is interested in origin and development, the overall effect of transformation and permanence. Growth, development and self-reflection are in the focus of his new solo exhibition at the Ferenczy Museum, opening in the spring of 2022. The goal of his experiments with sculptural forms is to find modular shapes that can be utilized in complex compositions. The variability with which the modules can be fitted together guarantees infinite possibilities for one element giving rise to the next. The character of the emerging complex forms is now organic, now anthropomorphic, setting off a chain of associations in the viewer. The constantly changing permutation of a definite set of elements is characteristic of both his sculptures and graphic works. The exhibition offers an opportunity to study the interplay between Melkovics’s early experiments in form and the latest works. His large sculptures materialize without a predetermined plan, as a result of the current artistic intervention. New works, new interpretative dimensions emerge with the act of recomposition. The exhibition is in a way a story of development, a synopsis of formal experiments carried out by the artist. The works throw a light on the linear continuity of the results of his investigations, and an artistic mindset that is simultaneously characterized by playfulness and a rigorous intellectualism, diverse possibilities for interpretation, and a tension between permanence and constant change.