Andrea Eva Gyuri, the Hungarian-born artist whose work of sensuality and power made her presentations at some of the best art institutions in the European art world, has died at the age of 37. The cause was cancer, said Harlan Levy, who runs a eponymous gallery in Brussels that represents Gyuri.
Gyuri has been known to have been battling breast cancer since he was diagnosed in 2017.
Through performances, sculptures, installations, drawings, paintings, and conceptual works, Gyuri often sought to evoke extreme physical states in an effort to encourage sexual openness and inspire self-actualization.
“Her experience speaks volumes about her character and life,” Levi wrote in an email. “She maintained this with remarkable grace and devotion while navigating her illness. Andrea Eva was extremely inquisitive, full of sympathy, and often prophetic.”
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In her statement, artist Gyuri It gave a sense of her unique practice and technical outlook. This is an excerpt:
Balancing intimacy and distance, I intend to create an intimate space, an atmosphere of absolute trust where personal boundaries are in a constant flow, floating around topics such as excitement, pleasure, and pleasure, but also pain. I work on the edge of this sensitive, volatile personal frontier. I intend to create a special method of communication and develop a system that provides an opportunity to observe and display personal stories that are directly related to real life and relationships between children, parents and families from different social backgrounds.
Born in 1985 in Budapest and based at the time of her death in the Dutch city of Rotterdam, Gyuri is still best known for her “Shaking Highway” project, which was developed into a book in 2018.
Working with sexologist Dania Shiftan, Gyuri studied female pleasure with a focus on orgasms. For related drawings, Győri invited women to masturbate, then represented them using feminine forms accompanied by bursts of light and vagina-like abstraction.
“I am particularly interested in the female orgasm because I believe this is a way to delve deeper into the question of how the mind influences the body and our behavior,” she wrote in the copy of Vibration Highway.
Drawings from “The Vibration Highway” were featured at the 2016 edition of the Biennale Manifest, held that year in Zurich and curated by artist Christian Jankowski, who entered her class at the Stuttgart Curie Academy when she was a student. Works from this series were also shown at the 2018 Haus der Kunst exhibition.”Blind Faith: Between Visceral and Cognitive in Contemporary Art”, which focused on the relationship between body and mind, and also included works by Ed Atkins, Wangichi Muto, and Otobong Nkanga, among others.
Gyuri’s other projects included a performance in which he bathed elsewhere and a sculptural piece in which she enlarged the breasts of a statue of the goddess Nike in Warsaw. She said the latter represented an attempt to provide “a breast implant and breast disease as well” for the statue.
Her work has also been shown at the Corner Art Space in Seoul, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, and the Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art in Middelburg, the Netherlands.
Towards the end of her brief career, Gyuri came to terms with her battle with breast cancer. 45 minute video Talking to breasts (2018) was shot before a double mastectomy and included the artist fondling her breasts. She thanks her breasts and then, at the end, bids them farewell with tears.
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