Background
Gyula Kosice (born Ferdinand Fallik) was born on April 26, 1924 in Kosice, Slovakia in an ethnic Hungarian family. Kosice used his natal city name as artist name. His family arrived in Argentina in 1928 when he was only three years old.
Kosice studied drawing and modeling at three different academies, one of them was Academia Libre de Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gyula Kosice with the full-size "Röyi" (1945) at the first Madí exhibition at the Instituto Francés de Estudios Superiores in Buenos Aires in 1946.
Gyula Kosice (born Ferdinand Fallik) was born on April 26, 1924 in Kosice, Slovakia in an ethnic Hungarian family. Kosice used his natal city name as artist name. His family arrived in Argentina in 1928 when he was only three years old.
Kosice studied drawing and modeling at three different academies, one of them was Academia Libre de Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gyula Kosice’s art career started in 1944. In the early 1940s, he started his first non-figurative drawings, paintings, and sculptures. The focus in his early art career was about concrete, non-objective art and how it could radically change society for the better. He worked alongside many other Argentinian artists who had the same mindset, publishing art journals with them. In 1944, he started his first art group "Artur" by collaborating with Carmelo Arden Quin, Rhod Rothfuss and Torres-García. This was an art journal that had articles containing these artists’ responses to constructivist art and poems. That same year, he went with this group of artists to host "Artconcret invention" and "El movimiento de arte concreto-invención", a couple of private exhibitions on constructivist art in private homes.
In 1947, Kosice hosted his first personal exhibition of Madí Art at the Bohemien Club in Galerías Pacífico in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which was the first totally non-figurative exhibition in Latin-America.
In addition, he was involved in a Madí exhibition at Réalités Nouvelles, Paris in 1948. He was also invited by Del Morle and the governing board. He received the collaboration of the France Cultural Attach in Buenos Aires, M. Weibel Reichard.
In the late 1940s, Kosice was the first to use neon lighting in his artwork, using them to create non-representational patterns in what he called "Hydrokinetism".
In the late 1950s, Gyula Kosice started to create his motorized “hydrokinetic” sculptures that incorporated the use of neon light, Plexiglas, aluminum, and water. These sculptures were Kosice’s experimentations with the perception of color, its motion, and how it can make the viewer feel visually unstable. The use of constantly shifting water combined with moving light was what created the feeling of instability as these elements were always in perpetual motion. These “hydrokinetic” sculptures had their roots in the concrete art movement, however they truly fit and thrived in the kinetic art movement.
Kosice started the "Ciudad Hidroespacial" project in the 1970s that proposed creating a classless society by building an entirely new city. For many years, he worked on this project. "Ciudad Hidroespacial" consisted of many plexiglass models for architects to create a new large, self-sustaining cosmic city. It was also made of plastic, metal, and many other materials that were collaged onto pictures of cloudy skies.
Throughout his lifetime, Gyula Kosice hosted more than 40 personal exhibitions and participated in 500 collective exhibitions all over the world. He also published 14 books of essays and poetry.
Kosice died on May 25, 2016 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Perforaciones con reflexion
Untitled
Planet Kosice
Constellation and Habitat of the Hydrospatial City,
Televisor hidraulizado 1
Lumínica con dos gotas (Composición con gotas de agua)
Röyi
Relieve Agua Comunicante
Pintura Madí
Untitled
Mobile Articulated Sculpture
Reloj espacial
A partir d'un centre concave
Hydrospatial Cities
Untitled
Hydrolight
Composition
Homage to Democracy
Gota de aguya y aredobas azules
Deformación de la gota circunvalada
Composition-Relief
Televisor Hidraulizado 2
Planos y color liberados
Constelación y Hábitat Hidroespacial
Kosice was a founder and member of the art group "Arturo" in 1944, the "Arte Concreto Invención" in 1945 and the "Grupo Madí" in 1946.