Czeizel, Balázs Budapest, 9. December 1962
Photographer, book designer.
After the high school, he obtained a skilled-worker certificate of painting.
1984-1989: He graduated from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts with a visual communication-typography department.
1989 -1992: He graduated from the Hungarian College of Applied Arts Master's Degree in Visual Communication.
1988: He was on a 3-month dutch study trip at the Minerva Academy in Greningen, and spent a year in America in 1989.
1993: He was on another one-month study trip to Rochester (USA).
1995: with the help of the Eötvös Scholarship, he spent 3 months in Rochester at Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester.
2006: He graduated from the Moholy University of Fine Arts, DLA.
Primarily he was interested in the complex genre of the photobook, which does not consider the image appearing in the print more important, but rather the photographic work in the form of a book.
As a book designer, his books designed for contemporary literary writers (Péter Nádas, Péter Esterházy), and as a photographer used his picture as a component of autonomous and installations, as well as in one copy, handmade art books show his affection for image and letter. He made composition with the freely used tools of reduce, enlarge, cut out, and computer manipulate, which are all personal stories. Each of his photographic projects is one of thoughtful, planned and professional work.
From 1989 designer of the Living House titled literary and artistic review,
From 1994 designer of the Café Babel titled magazine and Transformations titled Literature Journal
From 1998 designer of the Theatron titled theater theory magazine.
He also deals with publishing design (catalogs, program books). He is working as an lecturer at Budapest Metropoiltan University.
Awards:
Pro Industria Foundation Award - MIF Master's Degree in MIF 1991, Montage 93, International Festival of the Image, Rochester, New York; Main Prize, Art Book Category 1993, Nice Hungarian Book Award 2000/2001/2008, Gold pushpin Award 2005, XV. Prize for the Photo Biennial of Esztergom 2006.
Individual exhibitions:
Bedtime story. Street Gallery, Szombathely 1988, It's not America, either. College of Fine Arts Budapest 1993, Presentation of Art Books Printed Matter, New York, 1993, This is not America, either, Montage 93, Rochester, New York
Words Hidden By Time. Liget Gallery, Budapest, (with Kiff Doso / Dezső Kiss)
1994, You are wrong(together with Kiff Dos) Dorottya Gallery Budapest, 1996, Travel without titleBalassi Bookstore Gallery Budapest, 1996, Steps. Collegium Budapest, Budapest, 1998, Viaggio Senza Tittolo, Hungarian Academy, Rome 1998. Codex. Bolt Gallery, Bp. 1999., Silver Memorial Book, Balassi Bookstore Gallery, Budapest, 2000,
Between Covers, Mai Manó Gallery, Budapest, 2000, Photoworks, Nantes, France
2001, something] sure] adventure, exhibition of Balázs Czeizel. Details from Péter Esterházy's Balázs Czeizel: The certain Adventure’s book. The exhibition is opened by Lajos Parti Nagy
Liget Gallery 2002, Digital Photograms Víziváros Gallery in Budapest 2008.
Photosphere - Analog Photogram to Digital Photogram Art + Text Budapest Gallery 2019,
His books:
Icon’s limit. Budapest, 1985, With Few Words. Budapest, 1987,The portfolio of silver monuments. Budapest, 1988, Gate of Heaven. Budapest, 1988, Bedtime story. Groningen (The Netherlands), 1988, Certain Adventure(Péter Esterházy.). Budapest, 1989, 0 + 21 + 22 Tarot,The Book of Cards,Budapest, 1991 ,, This is Not America. Either(Visual Studies Workshop Press Rochester N.Y.) 1993., Travel without title.(Visual Studies Workshop Press Rochester N.Y.) 1995.
Literature:
Klara Hudra: Photos without a camera.Photo, Oct. 1987 458-460.o, Péter Forgács:Exhibition of Balázs Czeizel and which is not.Balkon, 1993- Nov. 39, József Vadas: Books with question marks. Magyar Hírlap, 8th Feb. 1996.
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