This summer
Holdudvar
hosts creative residencies for young artists who are creating site-specific work inspired by the vicinity of the Danube and the unique and in many ways peculiar characteristics of the Margaret Island. Commissioned artists are invited to observe and reflect on the natural environment, history and social character of the location, creating their individual interpretations or commentary. The works will be exhibited in the Holdudvar Gallery.
Nagy Benjámin
graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2011 as a painter but recently his means and medium of expression become the manipulated (found) object. His works often invite the onlooker to interact. His exhibition Human nature examines the possible and existing interconnections between the man-made and controlled natural environment of the island and leisure activities of the people coming here. His observations appear in he form of pseudo ethnographic funds, artefacts in the Gallery’s exhibition case. The hand-shaped table tennis bat and a badminton racket with a spider-web offer ironic interpretations of what we think of as leisure in the green, most strongly connected to leisure in the Budapester’s mind.
The central question of the exhibition is, how natural motives impress human culture, or rather, how human activities shape (modify or distort) nautre. The exhibition shows this mapping interaction.
