In my series called “Broken Planet," I am showing one Broken Planet with 13 other “planets” based on the most common human feelings or behavior such as happiness, sadness, anger, anticipation, fear, loneliness, jealousy, disgust, trust, greed, joy, racism, shame.
In these images, I am working with various shreds of colored glass and other detritus which I picked up on the streets near my home in Atlanta, during the period of COVID-19 quarantine and the political protests. I assemble these pieces in the studio and rephotograph them to symbolize the current crisis of political and environmental issues.
At this moment, the most pressing questions of our time are about ourselves and the future of our culture and our planet. In a sense, I am taking the pieces and putting them back together to re-construct a fragmented world.
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”-Albert Einstein.
The Greedy Planet. From the series The Broken Planet, 2020
The Greedy Planet, 2020
From the series "The Broken Planet"
Archival Pigment print
Limited Edition.
Unframed
Zoltan Gerliczki was born in Nyíregyházain, Hungary in 1971 and he was raised in a Budapest orphanage during Hungary’s Communist regime. He is a filmmaker, painter, and computer artist who currently works as a graphic designer in Antwerp, London, Paris, and New York. As a graphic designer and post-production artist, he has been involved with various publications including Elle Décor, House Beautiful, Zoo Magazine, Io Donna, Departures (US), Cosmopolitan (France), Paris Review, Travel & Leisure, and The Guardian UK, among others. Commercially, he has also been involved with Thierry Mugler, Christian Lacroix, Illy, L’Artisan Parfumeur Paris, among others. Gerliczki is now emerging as a consummate artist breaking boundaries between the various mediums he works within.
