Brown glass vase with safflowers
In my most recent works, I arrange cut flowers and vases in scale glass containers arranged in a regular structure, which not only recreates the strict composition of still life painting in sculptural space, but also reflects the dual nature of floral still lifes – behind the beauty of vibrant, colourful plants, there is always the idea of withering, of passing away. Therefore, perhaps the most powerful force in the interiors of the glass boxes is not the meticulously worked out formal regularities, but time itself, to which I surrender the works at the moment of the sculpture's closure. In this sense, the moment of the sculpture's completion is not a completion; the work remains open, and the viewer can observe the slow process of its demise from a position of observation.
Körei Sándor
Sándor Körei was born in Mór in 1995, he currently lives and works in Budapest. He graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2021 as a sculptor, in the same year he won the Tamás Vígh Prize, and in 2022, he was awarded the Derkovits Scholarship. His works revisit and reinterpret the still life genre from a contemporary sculptural perspective. Arranging freshly cut flowers and vases in a regular structure in glass containers, he not only recreates the strict composition of still life painting in sculptural space, but also reflects on the dual nature of floral still lives – behind the beauty of the vibrant, colorful plants, there is always the idea of withering, of passing away. In the interiors of the glass boxes, it is perhaps not the precisely worked out formal regularities that are the most powerful force, but the time itself to which the artist gives the works over at the moment of the sculpture’s closure. In 2023, Körei won the Káli-Art Inn Prize, therefore his work can be found in the open-air Káli-Art Park.