Peter Panyoczki
"Philosophy so said Georg Lukàcs, is essentially homesickness -longing in all directions. Panyoczki’s homesickness embraces the whole world. It connects the once separated power blocks through his place of birth Budapest 1953 in the East with Zürich in the West, the place of refuge of his family following the 1956 uprising in Hungary. By now Panyoczki has lived with his family for 30 years antipodally between Switzerland and New Zealand. He has erected his emigrant life into an artistic standpoint. Just as the artist remains underway, so his work marks absence by means of traces that stay present. Panyoczki belongs to the generation of the 1980s generation of artists that polemically rejected the mainstream of concept art. He has not, like many others, simply returned to figurative painting, instead having developed a conceptual interest in questions of the mediality of art."
- Beat Wyss, Professor of Art in Germany
“His work could be described as metamodern, with its oscillation between past, present and future suggesting a belief in something while also recognising counter positions. It is apparent that he approaches the ideas that inspire his artist practice with a reasoned, systematic and conceptual rigour, always working in series, and using calculation and science to conjure emotional and imaginative realms beyond the limits that can be empirically verified. He works in different media, two and three dimensional. Panyoczki is asking questions that embrace doubt and irony, idealism and wonder, drawing his viewers in with ravishing surfaces while maintaining that all meaning is relational and contextual.”
- Linda Tyler, Art Historian, UNI Auckland
- Beat Wyss, Professor of Art in Germany
“His work could be described as metamodern, with its oscillation between past, present and future suggesting a belief in something while also recognising counter positions. It is apparent that he approaches the ideas that inspire his artist practice with a reasoned, systematic and conceptual rigour, always working in series, and using calculation and science to conjure emotional and imaginative realms beyond the limits that can be empirically verified. He works in different media, two and three dimensional. Panyoczki is asking questions that embrace doubt and irony, idealism and wonder, drawing his viewers in with ravishing surfaces while maintaining that all meaning is relational and contextual.”
- Linda Tyler, Art Historian, UNI Auckland
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Selection of Peter's works in private and public collections
- Narita airlines - New Zealand Post - Diverse international collections at Swiss banks - Sculpture at Haus der Schweiz in Berlin - Sculpture for Schindler in Luzern, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Nagaoka-Cho, Tokyo |
Monographs
Panyoczki - Monographie, mit Texten von Volker Schunck, Beatrice Rolli Zinsstag, Georg Kohler, Alois M. Haas und Charles E. Brooks, Benteli Verlag, Wabern -Bern, 1996 ISBN 3-7165-0979-5 Distance and Proximity - a monograph on Peter Panyoczki with texts by Georg Kohler, Wystan Curnow, Peter Panyoczki, imp.press Auckland, 2004 Surface and Beneath monograph (contributions by Wystan Curnow, Brett Graham, Marianne Karabelnik, Herbert Lachmeyer, Beat Wyss, Peter Panyoczki) published by BENTELI (Switzerland /Germany) 2016 |
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