
I live in Budapest, Hungary.
I am graduated at Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design Budapest in 2008 with neon light creatures and a wall-window relief. I dealt with the light creatures for a long time after graduation, but the series somehow drowned out, one day I hope to return to them. I have been working with robots more seriously for the fifth year.
Many people ask why robots? This is the easiest and most difficult to answer. I like working with robots, figuring out how body parts can rotate without breaking. It is also a kind of worldview for me. I try to show with them that we are not alone in the world. Others also exist/can exist outside of us, in an alternative reality parallel to us. Are they the forerunners of a world to come, or the remnants of a bygone era?
I wonder if it is possible or how I could make robots out of glass, because the robots usually are not made of glass, they are not fragile things. They are usually big, strong and want to subdue us, or something like that…. I imagined a glass robot civilization. Who are they? What are they? What can they do? We don’t know that, they’re just here among us in an alternative world / reality. We see that they exist. They are here, but we do not know where they came from and why. Forerunners of a world to come, or remnants of a bygone age?
My passion for robots partly started from cinematic inspiration. My favorites are Sci-fi and animation and a mix of these. I also like the world of alternative reality sci-fi movies. I could place and imagine my robots in such an alternative world, with some Miyazaki and Mœbius touch.
On the other hand, the challenge inherent in glass also inspired and encouraged their creation. It employed me. Is it possible to make such complex and movable sculptures out of glass?
Now I am working on a 90 cm tall robot. In the future, I would like to make glass robot sculptures close to life size, but now in the near future I will try an intermediate size, maybe something like a relief, but I will stay with the robot theme.
E-mail:
info@budaizsoltjanos.com
Studies:
2002-2008 Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Department of Silicate Design, Department of Glass Design, Budapest
2006 Aalto University of Art and Design Helsinki, Erasmus Scholarship, Finland
2001-2002 Ybl Miklós Construction Vocational School, Department of Decorative Sculpture, Budapest
2000-2001 Nyíregyháza Art High School, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Painting section, Nyíregyháza
1996-2000 Nyíregyháza Art High School, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Glass section, Nyíregyháza
Scholarships:
2019 NKA Creative Scholarship
2017 NKA Creative Scholarship
2006 Erasmus Scholarship, Aalto University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
Awards:
2023 The Glass Prize 2023, Open Glass Artists category winner, Warm Glass UK
Associations:
GAS (Glass Art Society) membership since 2021
MÜT (Hungarian Glass Artist Society) membership since 2012
MAOE (National Association of Hungarian Artists) membership since 2010
FISE (Studio of Young Designers Association) membership since 2008
exhibitions with the Innovatio Artes Association
Internships:
Summer of 2006 AA laboratory, Budapest
Summer of 2005 O-I, United Hungarian Packaging Glass Ltd., Orosháza
Summer of 2004 Parád Crystal Manufactory, Parádsasvár
Creative Camps:
2024 -Almádi Workshop, casting workshop for MÜT members, Balatonalmádi
2023 -Almádi Workshop 2.0, pâte de verre workshop for MÜT members, Balatonalmádi
2009 -Székelyvarság Artist Colony, theme: Kata Kádár ballad, Székelyvarság, Transylvania
-Glass Symposium, International Ceramic Studio, Kecskemét
2007 -XVII. International Glass Symposium, Bárdudvarnok