The Excitement Planet uses bright, multi-colored glass fragments—yellows, oranges, vibrant hues—to represent anticipatory joy and energetic emotion. Unlike the somber Broken Hearts Planet, this sphere celebrates positive human capacity for enthusiasm and hope even amid 2020's crises. Collected from same Atlanta streets during protests and quarantine, the vibrant debris suggests resilience and possibility. Gerliczki's reassembly transforms chaotic street fragments into ordered sphere, implying that excitement can emerge from fragmentation when pieces realign toward hopeful futures.
Zoltan depicts a broken planet alongside 13 other “planets” based on the most common human feelings or behaviors, such as happiness, sadness, anger, anticipation, fear, loneliness, jealousy, disgust, trust, greed, joy, racism, and shame.
In these images, the artist works with various fragments of colored glass and other debris that he collected from the streets near his home in Atlanta during the COVID-19 quarantine and political protests. Zoltan assembles these pieces in his studio and re-photographs them to symbolize the current crisis of political and environmental problems. At this moment, the most pressing issues of our time concern ourselves and the future of our culture and our planet. In a sense, the artist takes the pieces and puts them back together to reconstruct 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 do nothing about it.” -Albert Einstein
Excitement Planet celebrates energetic emotion—vibrant glass fragments from crisis moment reassembled into hopeful sphere. Archival pigment print from The Broken Planet series. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
The Excitement Planet - Vibrant Glass Energy Sphere from The Broken Planet, 2020
The Excitement Planet, 2020
From the series "The Broken Planet"
Archival Pigment print
Limited Edition.
Unframed
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, and L’Artisan Parfumeur Paris, among others.
