Janos Korodi
Motion Picture 23, 2019
Pigment in acrylic on canvas
16 x 20"

About the work
In the wake of my move from Europe to the United States, I aimed to encapsulate the journey between these two distinct chapters of my life through my art. By narrowing yet simultaneously broadening the focus, I narratively navigate my relocation through the skewed contours of various bridge structures that stretch toward the horizon. The bridges featured in my artwork are all situated in the US, contrasting with the landscapes which are chosen at random, representing nondescript, unnamed locales.

Bio

Janos Korodi was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1971. A visual artist, primarily a painter, Korodi also deals with different forms of printmaking, murals and occasional interdisciplinary collaborations. By the time he received his doctoral degree in visual arts from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2013, Janos was already in the process of relocation to the US. In the last 25 years his works have been shown in various venues in multiple countries of Europe and the US. He has spent a six-months art residency at TerraCycle Inc. in Trenton, NJ in 2015, awarded the 2010 Eötvös Scholarship of the Hungarian State - a 3 mo. studio residency in New York City, a 2008 scholarship at the Hungarian Academy in Rome, the 1999-2001 Derkovits Fellowship for emerging artists in Hungary and the 1996 scholarship for emerging painters from the Tóth Menyhért Foundation of Kecskemét, Hungary. Korodi's works are in permanent public and private collections internationally. Janos have lived and worked in Philadelphia since 2015.

Through the 2000's Korodi has dealt with architecture and urbanism, and its visual and theoretical aspects for his Genius Loci - Spirit of the Place program, which concluded in his doctoral thesis. Later he found his new self in motion and started using the phenomenon of transition between places in his work. This shift was coded in and bound together with their own immigration, as well as the human exodus of the past decade worldwide.

http://korodijanos.eu/