arpad polgar photography

„Meine Augen wurden trübe,
Fernes, mütterliches Land,
Ach! sie bleiben dir voll Liebe,
Und voll Sehnsucht zugewandt!“ 

NOVALIS, Schriften

„La vie va se perdre dans la mort, les fleuves dans la mer et le connu dans l'inconnu. La connaissance est l'accès de l'inconnu. Le non-sens est l'aboutissement de chaque sens possible.“ 

 Georges BATAILLE in L'Expérience Intérieure

Arpad Polgar was born in Geneva, Switzerland and works between Bern and Geneva. His works include analog and digital photography as well as mixed media.

Nature, landscape and abstract textures were the starting points and a longtime interest. Numerous influences throughout modern and contemporary art, but also Japanese Edo paintings have shaped his creations. The exploration of the fringes of photography and scan art caracterize his most recent works.

His style has slowly evolved from straight photography to multiple exposures and to more complex, layered compositions, where the abstract and the figurative melt into one another creating artificial landscapes or herbariums.

Arpad Polgar has participated in collective and individual expositions since 2001 in Geneva, Zurich, Budapest, Saanen. He is represented by the gallery ArtBongard in Geneva.