Iosif kiraly biography
Iosif Király is....
Born in Romania in , Kiraly has had over 10 solo shows and 84 group shows in the last 37 years, exhibiting in countries like Italy and France.Interview with Iosif Kiràly
Iosif Kiràly is one of Romania’s most prominent contemporary artists. He teaches at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where he is also the co-founder of the Department of Photography and Time-Based Media Arts.
Kiràly lives and works in Bucharest.
Ileana Pintilie: You are at present one of the best-known Romanian artists active on the international art scene. Please talk about your formation as an artist, about the artistic elements that influenced your development.
Iosif Kiràly: My background is a hybrid one.
In the 1970s, I attended a Bauhaus-like art school in Timi?oara (the only one existing at that time in Romania).
IOSIF KIRÁLY is a Romanian visual artist, architect, and educator.
That institution was a “pedagogical experiment / firing range” for the so-called Sigma group. It promoted the merger of art and new technologies, along with a type of neo-constructivist aesthetics. I graduated from the Institute of Architecture in Bucharest.
However I chose to return to contemporary art with a focus on