NUMÉRO BERLIN
“BIRTH LIFE DEATH” – In Conversation with Julia Pietsch
“Birth Life Death” invites viewers to reflect on the human condition through the juxtaposition of mundane objects, encouraging a deeper exploration of themes that have fascinated thinkers for centuries. Borsodi’s photographs challenge us to see the extraordinary in the ordinary, making us question the very nature of existence through his artful arrangements.
THE NEW YORKER
Luminous Images of Children and Their Drawings - By Rivka Galchen
First, the kids drew their dreams. Then they posed next to them, in bed. The resulting black-and-white photos reveal the emotional realism that lies behind the fantastical. “Nothing describes children’s drawing, in general, better than the term realism,” Georges-Henri Luquet wrote in his classic study, “Le Dessin Enfantin” (“Children’s Drawings”), from 1927. This was a man who took the drawings of children seriously. He argued that kids often draw what they know, rather than what they see, and that their drawings incline more to internal understandings than to external observations. The kids in Bela Borsodi’s photograph series “Lucid Dreamers” also seem to be realists. In the text that accompanies each image, they describe their drawings as if each item or creature exists beyond their imagination: it is something that the child has found as much as made.
DOCUMENT JOURNAL
New dynamics for inanimate objects - By Nick Vogelson
On view at The Corner Gallery in upstate New York, the photographer’s mischievous exhibition creates existential language from the everyday. “Birth Life Death” presents non-living objects with mischief, humor, and verve. Regarding our existential situation amid what he considers an over-designed life, Borsodi reflects on the origins of his latest exhibition with Document’s Editor-in-Chief Nick Vogelson.
BIRTH LIFE DEATH
Exhibition at the Corner Gallery
Birth Life Death brings together a collection of color photographs, each a depiction of an assortment of items seemingly plucked from modern life at random. These objects are labeled with in-camera lettering that at first feels contradictory and tickles the absurd, then upon further exploration reveals a thread of existential inquiry. Modest things are given permission to engage in the same conversations dreamt up in fin de siècle salons, several lifetimes ago.
INTERIOR CONSTRUCTS
Exhibition at Project 105
Interior Constructs, an exhibition including the works of Graham Anderson, Bela Borsodi, Holly Coulis, Daniel Gordon, Erin O’Keefe, and Ann Toebbe. Through an exploration of works in sculpture, photography and painting constructs, these artists create abstractions of interior spaces and everyday objects. Using a range of approaches and playful uses of color, the artists use familiar shapes and materials in ways that question both domestic space and visual perception. By arranging cast-off or household items, and choosing a particular vantage point from which they are viewed, the artists remake our common experiences and the tension between three-dimensions and two. Curated by Rebecca Solderholm and Martin Schoeller.
OFFICE MAGAZINE
Behind the Unicorn - By Izzi Sneider
To celebrate the arrival of Borsodi's first book Office spoke with the artist for some exclusive behind the scenes insight of his creative process, lifelong interest in Rebus puzzles, and his transition from documentary photography to editorial work.
COLLECTOR DAILY
Phytophile - By Olga Yatskevich
Phytophile is a modest publication that shows how a zine can be the perfect photobook venue for a small self-contained project. It’s quirky, sexy, and decidedly offbeat, but Borsodi’s surprisingly engaging images are the result of both consistently thoughtful staging and successful collaboration with his model.
PIN-UP MAGAZINE
Rebus Play: a book of visual puzzles by artist Bela Borsodi - By Felix Burrichter
The photographer Bela Borsodi is based in New York, but his surrealist wit and dark sense of humor are deeply indebted to the sensibilities of his native city Vienna. For his latest project Borsodi brings his signature flare for dark and sexy composition to rebus puzzles, a style of brainteaser that dates back to at least the Middle Ages. Borsodi’s lavishly printed new book Unicorn features 40 pages full of visual puns, per say, that use equations of pictures and letters to graphically spell out words. PIN–UP called him up in his studio to provide the back story to five of the photographs from the book.
C/O VIENNA
Der Rätselmacher - By Antje Mayer-Salvi
Bela Borsodi erlangte internationale Bekanntheit durch seine fotografische Stillleben. Sie sind provokant, hintergründig und humorvoll. Uns hat er seine rätselhaft schöne Serie “Unicorn” zur Verfügung gestellt. Erraten Sie den dargestellten Begriff?
NUMÉRO BERLIN
Bela Borsodi spielt mit der Ästhetik des Ungewöhnlichen.
Kunstfotograf Bela Borsodi und Dashwood Books haben vor Kurzem ein Must See Kunst-Booklet veröffentlicht, das fünfzehn Nudes mit einem eher ungewöhnlichen Fetisch zeigt. Der Titel “Phytophile” wortwörtlich übersetzt bedeutet Pflanzenliebe.
ISSUE No.206
An unconscious affair.
Bela Borsodi made a name for himself through his unrivaled ability to capture beauty and amazing still life photographs. Most of the sets he creates, he develops himself as that are an integral part of his imagery and conceptual process.
THE CUT - NEW YORK MAGAZINE
The Mind-Boggling 2-D (or 3-D?) Art Photographer - By Julie Ma
The Cut sat down with Borsodi to talk about his creative process and delve deeper into his layered understanding of the medium. For Bela Borsodi, a photographer known for injecting craftiness into his fashion and still-life work, the field in which he gained prominence was not necessarily his first choice. Click through the slideshow for Borsodi's own commentary on a selection of his works.
FUJI TV - AMAZING STORIES
Japanese TV show about the making of the VLP album cover “Terrain”
H&M “THE BREAK UP”
The making of H&M “The break up”
Director: Nick Ray McCann - www.nickraymccann.com
FREITAG “REFERENCE”
The making of Freitag “Reference”
Director: Rafael Bolliger - www.rafaelbolliger.ch
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By Aiko Ishikawa
The Austrian photographer is known to breathe life into objects in his work, and says that he can hear the voices of his subjects. Though they should not be able to speak, as Borsodi puts it, “The objects complain if they don’t look good.”
