|
|
:: Biography :: | Featured Works
Kaya Sulc was born in Czechoslovakia in 1931. He immigrated to Australia in 1951 when he
was nineteen.
He studied at the National Art School and the Sydney Teacher's College leading to his
teaching art in New South Wales high schools until 1987.
Kaya then made the break to become a full time artist and sculptor and also moved his
residence to Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
One of his sculptures 'Couples', a 1.8 metre high work depicting a couple in a passionate
embrace, won the prestigious Gold Coast Sculpture Award for 1991, he won again in 1994 and
was Highly Commended in 1992 and 1995.
Artist's Statement
'The human figure fascinates me both as a source of complex shapes and forms and as a
subject of great evocative power.
n my sculpture I like to push and pull and twist and distort my figures in order to make
them speak. I simplify and exaggerate to accentuate the significant forms within the human
figure, to reveal the underlying abstract structure.
However, my figures always remain firmly based on reality, I want them to look real in an
unrealistic way; distorted, contorted, but 'possible', capable of life, and as such,
reflecting real life in their un-realness, their ambiguity, contradiction and even
absurdity.
The theme of the pair, the couple, joined or separated and searching, is running through
my work, the dialogue between male and the female hopefully touching on some telling
points.
My sculptures are constructed from beaten and welded copper with the joins in the metal
accentuated to contradict the realism of the figure. Similarly, while I like the natural
surface of the copper, with its aged patina evocative of ancient cultures, often I
introduce some harsh colour contrast to create a feeling of tension and discord.' |
|
