Gábor Ősz (1962)

Visual artist. Studied in the Painting Faculty at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, and continued with post-graduate training at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, then lived and worked in Amsterdam. His conceptual photo and video works investigate the fundamental characteristics of the medium. In the course of the Liquid Horizon (1999-2002) project, he used the World War II concrete bunkers of the Atlantic Wall as a camera obscura. This work was the beginning of his series in which he uses edifices as camera obscurae – which he calls collectively “Camera Architectura”. In his The Colours of Black and White (2009) and Blow-Up (2010) series, with the manipulation of the space, he is engaged by the representational questions of the photographic image.