Diána Bóbics is an experimental representative of the post-conceptual generation that entered the scene around the turn of the millennium. Her diverse oeuvre explores case studies of human experience and the construction of visual form, using a toolkit that spans disciplines and techniques.
Born in Zalaegerszeg, Bóbics studied at the Faculty of Music and Art of the University of Pécs in the 2000s, then at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. The central motif of her conceptually driven, experimental works is the fragile body and the metaphor of the line. Digitally composed music, sound installations, drawings of human injuries, black tape intervention that transforms the space in a room, a ball of wax under a magnifying glass, a retro ceramic vase and origami felt relief made of textile cut-outs can coexist within her diverse, intermediate oeuvre. The main thread of her oeuvre is, in her own words, "the organic reflection of human vulnerability through 'plane images' and objects in space, which I embed in the context of various pre-existing physical structures, often as spatial drawings." In the 2010s, the role of abstraction in her art intensified, influenced by, among others, her former master Sean Scully. In her 2022 series of paintings, Divided Images, she entered the energetic, youthful vitality of expressive non-figurativity, analysing the structure-creating power of the line. In the image space, which is divided into several fields, abstract gestures appear in bright colours, and repeatedly overpainted fields of colour with graffiti-like spray marks. Bóbics lives and works in Pécs. She works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts of PTE where she completed her doctoral studies. She regularly exhibits in solo and group exhibitions in Pécs and in various cities of Europe.
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