Born in Budapest in 1970.
He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Budapest. In 1995, he obtained a degree in sculpture in Budapest.
Following this, he created works in Carrara and Hungary. He is a member of several national and international art organizations. Since 1994, he has regularly participated in national and international exhibitions and art fairs, including Vienna, Paris, Cannes, The Hague, Basel, Dublin, Istanbul, New York, Miami, Trenton (New Jersey), Beijing, Icheon (Korea), Guatemala, Riyadh, and Rabat. He has had solo exhibitions in Budapest and several Hungarian cities, as well as in Rome, The Hague, Paris, and Vienna.
His most important awards include: Kossuth Prize (2022, Budapest), Mihály Munkácsy Prize (2017, Budapest), Sculptor Gold Medal (2015, SNBA, Paris), Prix Rumsay Sculpture Prize (2014, Salon des Beaux Arts, Paris), “Victor Brecheret” Sculpture Prize (2013, Latin American Autumn Salon, São Paulo), Sandoz Grand Prize (Taylor Foundation, 2009, Salon d’Automne, Paris).
His works can be found in public and private collections in Hungary and abroad.
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The primary source of Boldi’s perfectly polished, closed compositions, despite the high degree of stylization, is always some form of nature-based thinking, which prominently reflects on the moment of human birth and the experience of existence. As a creator, he is intrigued by the puzzle raised by Pierre Abélard, a French scholastic philosopher, about whether we are capable of grasping the essence, of abstraction. Observing Boldi’s works, it can be said that the creator realizes an extremely conscious, discursive artistic program, a form language that is characteristic and identifiable only to him in each of his creations, brought to life by the professional handling of the material and the captivating play of light and shadows on the dazzlingly white, mirror-smooth surfaces.
Genesis Sculptures
The amorphous masses of abstract forms symbolizing the origin of the beginning, the nature of creation and the origin of life appear in different directions, composed in varying settings, playfully experimenting with the spatial relations of seemingly shapeless figures, and the light-shadow effects resulting from the perfectly polished surface and material. The fine curved, unified composition indirectly symbolizes fertility, the beginning of a new life, development, and eternal cycle. On the mass of the mirror-smooth sculpture, like a slowly flowing, heavy mass, a ball/egg rests, as if on a giant hand providing security.
Boldi (b.1970) Genesis, aluminum 1.3 Leonardogold casting mark, 2021, 148x60x153 cm
Boldi (b.1970) Genesis, bronze 1/7 Leonardogold casting mark, 2023, with Aristide Maillol patina, 105x63x55 cm