Boldizar Senteski is a Hungarian artist and designer known for his arresting sculptural works, which explore the simultaneous tension between past and future, decay and renewal. Senteski’s art is informed by his hometown, Budapest, where post-Soviet brutalism blends with the opulence of baroque, neoclassical, and art nouveau masterworks. Senteski creates his unique and limited-edition collectible design pieces by bringing together the eclectic elements of his urban landscape.

Combining traditional craftsmanship and industrial innovation, Senteski’s approach is rooted in experimentation. Pairing his mastery of light with ancient forms and noble materials, Senteski’s use of alchemy celebrates the unexpected errors of the oxidation process as he allows his materials to shape themselves. Traversing the boundary of art and functional design, Senteski’s handmade creations include his signature mirror paintings – an evolved series of works that seek to explore the poetic possibility of human perception, as well as a number of limited-edition lighting and furniture pieces that have been exhibited globally. Senteski’s mirror objects simultaneously speak about the world we see in them and how we perceive it. First inspired to begin experimenting with mirroring surfaces whilst at university researching human perception, Senteski went on to further develop his exploration of the technique whilst shaping it to his own image, highlighting the oxidation process of the silver and using alchemy to celebrate the beauty of uncalculated errors. Each piece is a one-of-a-kind handmade creation, placing the “mirror paintings” somewhere between art and functional design.

“An otherworldly piece with exciting shape and texture.”