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“Red Riding Hood”
The installation for the first fall exhibition of Horizont Gallery – by young artists from Prague, Klára Hosnedlová and Igor Hosnedl – recalls certain historic locations of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire through personal stages of a lifetime. The protagonist of their story adaptation is Josef Hoffmann, the Brtnice-born architect known as the founder of the Viennese Art Nouveau, and the focal point of the exhibition is his Brtnice birthplace where he spent his formative years. The most significant spaces of the family home are feature a girl dressed in a red hooded mantle. The hand-embroidered images made with photographic documentation of Brtnice are incorporated into a sculpture forest layout evoking the scenery of a modernist stage, echoing the lines of Hoffmann’s modernist object and building designs.
Where: Horizont Gallery – Budapest 1066, Zichy Jenő Street 32
The exhibition can be visited until October 2nd.
2/8
“Soundproof Zoltán 9”
Barna Péli is one of the most tenacious and tireless Hungarian sculptors of the past decade, a key figure of his artistic generation. His sculptures are basically about the central and timeless challenges of sculpture: gravity, balance, and composition. Péli has a true talent in applying new technologies, which is fed by his curious artistic nature, thus he is able to create real instant constellations and spontaneous technical solutions. Péli works with situations which usually balance between installation and sculpture. For this exhibit, Trafó Gallery becomes a dirty industrial operating theater, in which Péli and his team creates mechanical man-machines and other anthropomorphic creatures during their posthuman adventure.
Where: Trafó Gallery – Budapest 1094, Tűzoltó u. 11
The exhibition can be visited until October 9th.
3/8
“Forms of adaptation. This space intentionally left blank”
Anu Vahtra’s upcoming exhibition in Budapest serves as a continuation of “A room made of blank pages”, the artist’s recent installation and solo show in Cologne, Germany. The installation takes as its starting point Vahtra’s book Untitled (Lugemik, 2015) which documents ten of her spatially concerned projects. The recent exhibition with new works introduces a series of translations of a two-dimensional page back to a three-dimensional physical space. Focusing on a blank page, the title of the exhibition refers to the empty space intentionally included in Vahtra’s book. For the exhibition at Chimera-Project Gallery, Vahtra presents a proposal for an extended spatial narrative adapting elements from the previous setup into a new structure.
Where: Chimera-Project Gallery – Budapest 1072, Klauzál Square 5
The exhibition can be visited until October 14th.
4/8
“The Legend Of The Growing Green”
Zsuzsa Moizer is an outstanding figure of the young Hungarian painters generation, with an unmistakable and unique style. Her latest painting series, now presented in the Erika Deák Gallery, shows a brand-new side of the painter. Her earlier, soft watercolors are replaced with mellow and lush oil paintings and installations, and her previously dominant pastels are now reborn in an intense and livelier painting technique. Her formerly indispensable figures and zoomorphic creatures are still there, however, no longer in her focus. The new paintings evoke imagery between reality and dreams. Moizer alters the realistic forms of the nature towards lyrical compositions, which refers rather to a subjective landscape instead of a real world.
Where: Deák Erika Gallery – Budapest 1066, Mozsár Street 1
The exhibition can be visited until October 15th.
5/8
“Stretching Space”
The 2016 autumn season takes off with a joint exhibition of works by Marianne Csáky, Ágnes Eperjesi, and Agnieszka Grodzińska in Inda Gallery’s freshly remodeled spaces. The visitor is guided through the show by the common points in the works’ visual languages, and by the thematic dialogues emerging thereof. Works that record and present the moments of spatial shifts and relocations are displayed in the first room: photograms, collages based on manipulated photographs, and found photos expanded by way of virtual artistic intervention. Here, already at the very start of the exhibition, the visitor can experience vividly how the works stretch their physical spaces and the spaces they depict. The explorations, observations, and statements continue in video works in the second room. See three-dimensional works, some of which break from two dimensions into the third, that “have occupied their places” in the third room: pictures pierced by objects; shapes and forms that had been fixed on the wall but “jumped off”; the sensual abstraction of the birth of the image; and others.
Where: Inda Gallery – Budapest 1061, Király Street 34, II/4
The exhibition can be visited until October 17th.
6/8
“keserűsó (20th Century in Fragments)”
The art of Károly Keserű is rooted in the 20th-century abstract geometrical tendencies beyond the folklore and ritual ornamentation of individual cultures, which can be traced back to ancient times. His repetitive, intense works are based on simple expression elements, the point, and the line. The playful system of threads sometimes form a grid, and sometimes swirls as a vortex around the subspherical tranquillity of the acrylic dots. The exhibition organized at the Várfok Gallery will showcase the latest works which rethink the 20th-century “-isms” beyond such curiosities from the oeuvre as the “figural” compositions made in Australia in the early 2000s, or Keserü’s pictures created with glass, wire, stamps, and other special materials.
Where: Várfok Gallery – Budapest 1012, Várfok Street 11
The exhibition can be visited until October 8th.
7/8
“My Little Village”
Despite his young age, Roland Kazi has already developed a distinctive style: his works present the forgotten-yet-extant rural world in a modern setting. A deeply personal cause lies behind the works’ subject, as the artist himself has his roots in the country, having grown up in a village near the Serbian border. Kazi’s personal attachment to the rural world, as well as questions of origin and identity are presented in a self-reflexive manner at this exhibition. The show is characterized by the “My Little Village” installation, created in 2015 at the Steel Sculpture Symposium in Kecskemét, consisting of three kinetic sculptures and a video performance. The installation displays two symbols with differing meanings, the shoe and the house, moving and engaging in varying situations, evoking the exciting-yet-ambivalent notions of departure, separation and return, the fear of the unknown, and the craving for it. This project is accompanied by a series of 16 graphic works focusing on the motif of the house and a video performance. The exhibition reflects on dilemmas concerning origin, the search for identity, departure and returning home, or even the perpetual circle of life.
Where: Várfok Project Room – Budapest 1012, Várfok Street 14
The exhibition can be visited until October 8th.
8/8
“In Light”
Hosook Kang’s vigorous acrylic paintings depict configurations of nature in a delicate fashion. Her compositions are a synthesis of a gentle background, constructed by abstract layers of veil-like structures, and repetitive, meticulous patterns of dots that suggest the persistence of movement. While the varied hues and luminous particles burst with energy, their interplay carries traits of meditative character at the same time. Kang made her mark by creating this union of Eastern and Western influences in which the phenomena of beauty prevail eternally. In this exhibition, Kang experiments with the medium of oil as well to present a series of smaller-scale works evoking natural formations. The daytime and nighttime views of Budapest, the natural and artificial light that penetrates the inner yards and glows through several materials, were captured with tones ranging from white to golden shades, while displaying the rhythmical change of color effects.
Where: Budapest ART Factory – Budapest 1138, Vizafogó Street 2
The exhibition opens on September 14th and can be visited until October 14th.
