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Nesting Place
Standing in the moment, individual life experiences are distinct both in their past and in an unknowable future: Emigrating and immigrating. Moving or relocating. On migrations and in murmuration’s… Yet all creatures know the essential quest and the universal struggle of seeking and finding their Nesting Place.
Water Planet Artifact
Water is a uniquely defining planetary feature of the Earth and an anthropological existential necessity. The (relatively brief) Anthropocene era has indelibly marked Earth with artifacts bearing traces of rectilinear and curvilinear geometries. In contrast, artifacts indigenous to Earth are characterized by organic and fractal geometries. This diptych imagines the nature of a future artifact of our Water Planet…
Still. Life.
Is stillness is an absence of life?
Is life an absence of stillness?
Artist Bio
David Madacsi is a visual artist and writer whose career spans both the sciences and the arts. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, and a long-time resident of Mystic, Connecticut, he began his professional life in physics, focusing on light, materials, and processes for the photo-electrochemical conversion and storage of solar energy.
Madacsi’s academic career included serving as Professor of Physics Emeritus at the University of Connecticut. He co-founded the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art at UConn’s Avery Point Campus in 1991 with Julia Pavone and has remained its Founding Board Chairman and Associate Curator. He also produced the Jazz…by the Sea jazz festival from 1995–2000 and directed Arts and Cultural Programs at the campus before retiring in 2003.
Since retiring from academia, Madacsi has pursued art full-time, drawing on his scientific insight into the physical world. His work is often described as “art inspired by light and place, time and entropic effects” nesculptors.org. He works across multiple media, including:
Photography capturing the “visual terroir” of specific locations.
Sculptural assemblage using found objects, often textured and patinated by natural processes.
Site-specific environmental installations that explore natural lensing and image formation, such as “image-gathering” water lenses.
A central theme in Madacsi’s practice is the interconnectedness of light, art, and place. He has lectured and written internationally on this subject, with plans for a forthcoming book. His installations often respond to environmental conditions, using natural light and found materials to evoke relationships between sky and earth.
Madacsi is an elected member of the Mystic Arts Center and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, and a fellow of the I-Park Artists’ Enclave. He has participated in numerous artist residencies, including a month-long stay at the Cill Rialaig Project in Ballinskelligs, County Kerry, Ireland, where he explored and photographed the region’s “soft light”