Artist: Szabolcs Bozo
Title: The Aquarium (Hand Finished)
Medium: 32 colour silkscreen on 600gsm Somerset Radiant White paper, hand-finished in acrylic paint.
Size: 28.7in x 27.6in (31.5in x 30.3in x 1.2in Framed)
Year: 2023
Notes: Hand Signed, Dated and Numbered from a small edition of 25.
Szabolcs Bozó's artistic journey primarily revolves around the realms of drawing and painting. Unconstrained by conventions, his iconography exudes a delightfully youthful and sometimes mischievously subversive spirit, concealed beneath an apparent innocence. Tinged with mischief and joy, Szabolcs Bozó unveils a fantastical sub-aquatic world.
When painting an original artwork for Art Basel Miami, Bozó was inspired by Ocean Drive. The beach, vivid architecture and neon lights all inform his underwater scene. Characters swimming through the piece began as sketches rooted in the artist’s Hungarian heritage. Influences spanning animation, folklore and mythology emerge in their unusual characteristics.
Treating each hand-finished edition as an original work, Bozo gets lost in the textural brushstrokes he adds whilst working from his studio floor. Each footprint or pawprint from his dog is left on the surface as ‘imperfections’ that are integral to his practice. “Everyone digests art differently. Although I’m the one making the work, I don’t want to force my perspective on someone else and taint their enjoyment of it.”