Born in 1965 at Budapest (Hungary). He currently lives and works in Warsaw, (Poland).

In residence at the Atelier Calder from March to July 2011.

The Hungarian artist Attila Csörgő is committed to giving form to the invisible laws and structures that govern the world. With a strong interest in cosmology, physics, mathematics, and geometry, he conceives his works as visual and playful resolutions to complex scientific problems. Drawing on highly elaborate calculations, his sculptures, installations, and photographs generate striking optical illusions involving movement and light. They unsettle habitual modes of perception and interrogate fundamental universal notions such as the relationship between time and space.

It is through simple means that Attila Csörgő engages with complex scientific phenomena. To generate his striking visual equations, he constructs his own devices, openly embracing their “makeshift” character in reference to the often rudimentary instruments that have accompanied major scientific discoveries. This approach shifts the aesthetic stakes of his work beyond its material presence, situating them instead within the conceptual, philosophical, and poetic dimensions of the optical phenomena he brings into being. His mechanised devices function as machines for producing impossible images— such as transforming a circle into a square (Squaring the circle, 2013), or compressing all the dimensions of a space into a single photograph.

In Csörgő’s work, the use of scientific methods and language is not intended to explain the physical and rational world, but rather to evoke astonishment and the form of perceptual disruption inherent to aesthetic experience.