Agnes Deli | Artist

Ágnes Deli

This kind of wooden wheels was used as weapens in the middle age. Was covered it with combustible material, light a fire on and rolled throw the enemy.
In this work I used the simbols of danger made from aluminium and installed on the wheel. It's a warning for any danger around us.

Firewheel / Agnes Deli/ 2020/ Budapest/ 01.15

I was born in Mohács (Hun) in 1963. I started with my studies there, and than I vent to the Teachers Training School Janus Pannonius University Pécs, faculty of drawing and geography.
Between 1988-91 I was a student of sculpture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and I finished my sculptural studies in Budapest at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts (1991-95), where I also made my Master course (1991-95), and later my DLA studies (2000-2003).
From1994 to 1998 I was deputy char of the Studio of Young Artists Association, and since 2007 has been a senior member of the Hungarian Sculpture Society.
I teach at several universities and I‘m a professor at the Faculty of Art of Kaposvár University since 2014, having habilitated at the University of Pécs in 2013.
My works have been regulary exhibited since 1991, with numerous solo exhibitions in Hungary and abroad.
Major awards: Lipót Hermann Award (1993), Derkovits Scolarship (1995), Munkácsy Award (2005), Campus Hungary Teachers Scholarship (2014), Artcadia Award (2015).
My works feature in several Hungarian and Europian public exhibitions.

The majority of my works are site-specific installations, always composed for the given space, taking into account the proportions and aura of the particular place.
The material I use – its choice mainly governed by simplicity – is relatively easy to shape: the stages of experimentation left behind. I use the new mediums of sculpture in a natural way. I mostly use two kinds of materials presenting opposing characteristics. This double nature (rigid–pliable) can function in my works as an ordering principle. The strikingly sensual minimalist shapes contrast with the stand-offish distance of classical minimalism in that they are saturated with vitality. The reduced shapes are the result of an intense process of compacting and intensifying dictated by artistic ergonomy.