A multitude of opposites and contradictions meet with intelligent elegance in the Bratislava-born artist's work. Rita Koszorús's art is at once unpredictable but meticulously planned, action-based but painterly in a tradition-following way, conservatively modern but rebelliously contemporary. The artist, who graduated in Bratislava, also studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts with the guidance of Imre Bukta and Péter Kiss. She has also participated in residencies in Prague, Porto, Paris and Berlin, this internationality contributes to the versatility of her art. Her painting stability is reflected in the fact that she won the Mal'ba - VÚB banka painting prize for young artists in 2021 and the NOVUM art prize and scholarship in 2022. The art of Rita Koszorús is based on the concept of schMERZ. The Merz concept is the invention of Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), considered by many to be unique in his many facets. Schwitters, according to many of the followers of the Dadaist attitude, truly embodied the Dada artistic ethos, as his art was in complete fusion with everyday life, juxtaposing seemingly contradictory statements with the utmost serenity. Rita Koszorús follows this approach when she places her abstract paintings on a collage basis. The contingency of the surfaces and the tremor of the contours in the works may be the result of completely random gestures, but on closer inspection it is clear that what we see are precisely planned forms, based on movement, but perfectly deliberate. Spontaneity is also present in the installations, the presence of the works in the space may be tossed and random, but the pastel play of the sprayed surfaces clearly reflects a planned, precise work. The word schmerz means pain, and you can feel it in most of the works - it would be hard to perceive shooting a rifle at a painting as anything else. This overt pain turns into nostalgic sadness with an abstract formal language whose sensitivity is perfect for depicting a perceived and desired inner world. While for Rita Koszorús, adherence to painterly abstraction is an important aspect of her art, she leaves it behind with a playful ease, taking her studio out into nature, and in a park or on the beach, she breaks down the conservative reference points of her work, reinterpreting her works built on modern legacy with a contemporary twist. Délia Vékony

A multitude of opposites and contradictions meet with intelligent elegance in the Bratislava-born artist's work. Rita Koszorús's art is at once unpredictable but meticulously planned, action-based but painterly in a tradition-following way, conservatively modern but rebelliously contemporary. The artist, who graduated in Bratislava, also studied at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts with the guidance of Imre Bukta and Péter Kiss. She has also participated in residencies in Prague, Porto, Paris and Berlin, this internationality contributes to the versatility of her art. Her painting stability is reflected in the fact that she won the Mal'ba - VÚB banka painting prize for young artists in 2021 and the NOVUM art prize and scholarship in 2022. The art of Rita Koszorús is based on the concept of schMERZ. The Merz concept is the invention of Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), considered by many to be unique in his many facets. Schwitters, according to many of the followers of the Dadaist attitude, truly embodied the Dada artistic ethos, as his art was in complete fusion with everyday life, juxtaposing seemingly contradictory statements with the utmost serenity. Rita Koszorús follows this approach when she places her abstract paintings on a collage basis. The contingency of the surfaces and the tremor of the contours in the works may be the result of completely random gestures, but on closer inspection it is clear that what we see are precisely planned forms, based on movement, but perfectly deliberate. Spontaneity is also present in the installations, the presence of the works in the space may be tossed and random, but the pastel play of the sprayed surfaces clearly reflects a planned, precise work. The word schmerz means pain, and you can feel it in most of the works - it would be hard to perceive shooting a rifle at a painting as anything else. This overt pain turns into nostalgic sadness with an abstract formal language whose sensitivity is perfect for depicting a perceived and desired inner world. While for Rita Koszorús, adherence to painterly abstraction is an important aspect of her art, she leaves it behind with a playful ease, taking her studio out into nature, and in a park or on the beach, she breaks down the conservative reference points of her work, reinterpreting her works built on modern legacy with a contemporary twist. Délia Vékony