Challenge your eyes and observation, mirror reflection installation art!

Mirrors are actually quite an interesting creative material. In addition to their own plasticity, the reflections of mirrors are often used in unexpected ways. Hungarian artist István Orosz, for example, is very good at using the art of mise-en-scène. He puts cylindrical mirrors on top of seemingly unintelligible drawings, and through the mirrors, he reflects delicate and vivid faces or landscapes, which makes people wonder if there is a mirror in his mind that allows him to draw these apparently abstract patterns.

The best thing about István Orosz's reflections is the storytelling in them. In addition to distorting the reflections, sometimes the underlying image itself is a meaningful painting, which is then distorted by the curved mirror to create another image in the center column, which is a real feat!

Orosz graduated from the University of Arts and Design in Budapest in 1975, and after graduation, he worked as a theater stage designer and poster designer, and was very fond of using visual illusions in his traditional printing techniques, which laid the groundwork for his later work on mise-en-scène. This was the basis for his later work on mise-en-scene art.

Orosz often goes by the pseudonyms Outis or Utisz, which is the Hungarian equivalent of Utisz, meaning "no one". The pseudonym was used by the Greek hero Odysseus when he stabbed the Cyclops in the eye in Homer's epic work The Odyssey. When the Cyclops was wounded, he cried out for help, shouting, "No one is attacking me," but the other giants took it as a joke, and Orosz used the pseudonym because he believed that his work challenged everyone's eyes, just as Odysseus did.

Is it the solidity of what you see with your own eyes or the illusory reflection of a mirror image that can be believed to be real? Perhaps that's the most interesting thing about the art of misperception!

all photo credit to István Orosz's Facebook/Blog