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SCULPTURES – The Metamorphosis of Matter

Existential Figures and Gestural Abstractions

 

"I allow my subconscious to guide me in a meditative, intimate state—where it feels as though the material I shape with my hands is imbued with a spiritual essence. It is as if, in crossing the boundary between the material and the abstract, another reality enters the human dimension."

— Attila Konnyu

 

The sculptures of Attila Konnyu navigate the elusive threshold between form and formlessness, material and spirit. Phenomena, as we perceive them, are always mediated—shaped by the limitations of our spatial and perceptual frameworks. Whether filtered through the lens of individual subjectivity or encountered through the consciousness of another, our experience of reality remains partial and contingent. This echoes the phenomenological thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who insisted that perception is always embodied—rooted in a lived, situated experience of the world.

 

Konnyu’s artistic practice is deeply informed by the psychological insights of Carl Gustav Jung, particularly the notion of the collective unconscious as a reservoir of archetypal forms and shared emotional imprints. Through a process of meditative surrender, the artist enters a contemplative state in which intuition supersedes intention. In this space of interior attunement, sculpture becomes less an act of fabrication than of invocation. The material - clay, plaster, bronze - transcends its physical constraints to assume a spiritual charge. This process resonates with Rosalind Krauss’s writing on sculpture as a medium that destabilizes the viewer’s phenomenological relation to the object, insisting upon an experience of matter as both presence and signifier.

 

Konnyu’s work exists in a liminal zone - between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the ineffable. Form unfolds as a dialogue between materiality and abstraction, conjuring what might be called an ontological ambiguity. This tension aligns with the theoretical debates between Rosalind Krauss and Michael Fried, particularly their exploration of sculpture’s capacity to oscillate between objecthood and theatrical presence. In Konnyu’s hands, the sculptural form becomes a portal to an alternate register of being - subtle, intuitive, and resonant with what Henri Bergson described as La durée, or the qualitative flow of lived time.

 

The resulting works are at once gestural and architectonic - hovering between organic flux and structural resolve. They evoke the corporeal sensitivity and existential gravitas found in the work of David Smith and Louise Bourgeois, artists whose sculptural language similarly emerged from a deep engagement with interior states and the body as a site of memory and transformation.

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Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze
Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze
Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Genius

Bronze - Rightr view

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Siren

Bronze, nickel

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Genius

Bronze - Rightr view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Warrior 1.0

Bronze - Rear view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

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Hungry for Love

Bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Warrior 1.0

Bronze - Front view

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Heart of Gold

Gold plated bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Clay

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Dream

Painted clay - Right view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Clay

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Concentration

Painted clay - Right view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Clay

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Dream

Painted clay - Left view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Clay

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Concentration

Painted clay - Left view

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ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Golden Heart
Golded, bronze, ruby crystals

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Emotions

Bronze, nickel

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Sacred Cobra

Bronze, nickel

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Ancient Power

Bronze - Right view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Alien

Gold plated bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Chameleon

Bronze, nickel

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Ancient Power

Bronze - Left view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Space Dog 1.0

Bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Space Dog 2.0

Bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Socrates

Bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Gladiator

Gold plated bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Naivety

Bronze, nickel - Right view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Clay

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Ancient Face

Painted clay - Right view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Sweet Heart
Bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Warrior 2.0

Bronze - Right view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Warrior 2.0

Bronze - Left view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Clay

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Waiting for Love

Painted clay

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Rebirth
Bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Nymph

Gold plated bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Naivety

Bronze, nickel - Front view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Clay

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Ancient Face

Painted clay - Left view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Excitement
Bronze

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Skull

Bronze, nickel - Right view

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Cry

Bronze, nickel

Attila J. Konnyu Sculpture Contemporary Art Gallery Bronze

ATTILA  J. KONNYU

Skull

Bronze, nickel - Left view

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