A common presence divides almost every image in the newly opened Budapest exhibit of fresh paintings by Vidam the Weird: a mysterious translucent plane slicing through the cartoonish figures that populated the oeuvre of this Berlin-based artist up to now. On one side of the ethereal plane, the subjects appear like vividly animated characters in a particularly hip children’s book, but on the other side the attributes of each embodiment become blurred into something more enigmatic and less easily defined, in several respects.
