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NIPPED Istvan Szilasi - New York City based, art

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Created from masked Nip encounters on the web "NIP" is an acronym for Nude In Public experience.

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Istvan Szilasi lives and works in New York City. He was born and educated in Hungary. A member of the well-known artists group Ujlak in Budapest, a collective that built installations, ran its own galleries and curated numerous exhibitions, during the 1990s. Currently, Szilasis work includes sculpture, digital imaging, video animation, digital prints, and web-based works. He has exhibited widely in Europe.

The series Adult Blind (1999/2000) consists of interchangeable canvas panels that form a mosaic of paintings. All of the images in this series are appropriated from adult Internet sites. I alter these photographs by replacing the body from the digital image by means of computer editing techniques. Thus, I leave only the background of the photograph, which becomes the subject of these "paintings." These background images range from sumptuous interiors, to tacky hotel rooms, to rustic outdoor settings. The backgrounds remain as markers of a private space that is hyper-exposed through Internet circulation.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2001
I Would Feel Sorry if you Thought that you Can't get Everything that you Deserve, FRAC, Caen, France (curated by Barnabas Bencsik) Brewster Project, Brewster, NY (curated by Karen E. Jones)
2000
Media Model, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary (curated by Miklos Peternak)
idiopath/, Lazy J, Williamsburg, NY
1998
Try again later, Gasworks Gallery, London (curated by B. Bencsik, I.Petrina )
1997
Petit, Econome, Tonitruant, Gallery Triangle, Rennes (curated by Stephane Le Mercier)
sic, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest, Hungary (curated by Andras Zwickl )
1995
Beyond Belief , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (curated by Laura Hoptman)
1994
Ujlak Sport, Kunsthalle, Budapest
1993
Real Small (Little Things), Feszek Klub, Budapest, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Art in General, NYC and tour (curated by Laura Hoptman)
Ubergange (Passage), Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany(Curated by Hans Knoll )
Fremd und Vertraut (Foriner and Reliable), Ujlak Group, Kulturfabrik Saltzman, Kassel, Germany
Polyphonia, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Budapest