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István Orosz

イシュトヴァーン・オロシュ

Ishutuvān Oroshu

Aliases: Utisz / ΟΥΤΙΣ
Pen Names: Utisz（Artist's pseudonym (derived from Odysseus' alias 'No one')）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1951-10-24 （Kecskemét）
Nationality
Hungarian
Languages
Hungarian
Residence History
Kecskemét → Budapest → Sopron

Career

Occupations
painter, printmaker, graphic designer, animated film director, poster designer, illustrator
Active Years
1975-
Affiliations
PannóniaFilm Studio, University of West Hungary, Hungarian Poster Association, Alliance Graphique International (AGI), Hungarian Art Academie
Memberships
Alliance Graphique International (AGI), Hungarian Art Academie, Hungarian Poster Association
Influenced By
M. C. Escher

Education

Hungarian University of Applied Arts (now Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design)
Graphic Design
Year of Graduation: 1975
Country: Hungary
Studied as a pupil of István Balogh and Ernő Rubik

Awards

Kossuth Award
2011
Organization: Government of Hungary
Result: 受賞
KAFF Animated Film Festival Best Script
1985
Work: Ah, Amerika!
Category: 最優秀脚本
Organization: KAFF Animated Film Festival
Result: 受賞 (フェレンツ・ダーニエルと共同)
KAFF Animated Film Festival Short Film Category Award
1993
Work: Vigyázat lépcső!
Category: 短編映画
Organization: KAFF Animated Film Festival
Result: 受賞
Grand Prix and Award of Film and TV Critics
2005
Work: Az idő látképei
Organization: KAFF Animated Film Festival
Result: 受賞
Special Award for Best Visual Language
2009
Work: Útvesztők
Organization: KAFF Animated Film Festival
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Az idő látképei (Time Sights)

2004 Animated Film

Animated film exploring time illusions and anamorphoses.

optical illusionsanamorphosistime

Útvesztők (Mazes)

2008 Animated Film

Work featuring mazes and impossible objects.

mazesimpossible objects

Bibliography

  • ΟΥΤΙΣ - Orosz István (1994)
  • Exhibition Book, Hammerpress – GrafikArchive (1998)
  • István Orosz / Posters (2002)
  • Masters of Deception (2004)
  • Deep Down (2004)
  • Clouds for Polonius (2006)
  • The Drawn Time (2008)
  • Vision of Design (2007)
  • The Ambassador and the Pharaoh (2011)
  • Chess in the Island (2015)
  • A Rhino Remembered (2016)
  • Time Sights (2016)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
visual paradoxesdouble-meaning imagesillusionistic approachestraditional printmaking techniques (woodcutting, etching)renewal of anamorphosis
Recurring Motifs
impossible objectsoptical illusionsanamorphosesforced perspectives

Legacy

Known for mathematically inspired geometric art, impossible objects, optical illusions, and anamorphoses, compared to M. C. Escher. Active in major international biennials of posters and graphic art, with numerous exhibitions and awards.

In Popular Culture

  • Political poster 'Tovarishi Adieu' became symbolic of the 1989 Eastern European revolutions.

Quotes

  • Utisz - It was the Homeric hero Odysseus, who fought the Cyclops, had used this name, and had put out the monster's eye. I imagine that poster is nothing else but an Odysseus' gesture: some kind of attack upon the eye.
  • If you want to create a poster try to explain your idea in a sentence. Then try to reduce it, leave out phrases, attributes until you just have the bare essentials. When you do not need any letter at all you are ready with the poster.
  • ... When I have drawn these impossible objects, I did hope everybody would understand my intention, the intention of a Hungarian designer at the end of the 20th century who does not tell the truth just in order to be caught in the act.
  • There are things I can imagine and I can draw. There are things I can imagine but I cannot draw. But, could I draw something that I cannot imagine? That interests me greatly.

Trivia

  • Uses 'Utisz' (No one in Greek), the pseudonym from Odysseus' encounter with the Cyclops.
  • 'Tovarishi Adieu' poster symbolized the end of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.
  • Habil. professor at University of West Hungary in Sopron.