Why are you waiting for? – Klára Herczeg Prize 2014
| 2015. Jan. 22. | 19:00 |
The exhibition of Katalin Ladik and Zsófi Szemző
Vernissage: 6pm 22nd January, 2015.
The exhibition will be opened by Emese Kürti, art historian
Welcome speech by David Karas, the president of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association.
The Klára Herczeg Prize is awarded annually since 1998. In 2014 based on the recommendation of Emese http://ddid.ca/yz/coffee-cup-web-cam-streaming-video-sap1 Kürti, the Young Artists Foundation’s Board gave the Senior grade of the Herczeg Klára Prize to Katalin Ladik. Zsófi Szemző awarded by the board of the Young Artists Association in the Junior category.
Katalin Ladik (*1942, Serbia) performs her artistic work on the radio, in the theatre and, finally, in the world of visual art. A writer of poems, she transfers poetic language to other fields of expression, such as visual poetry, performance, Mail art and sound art. Her work is bound to feminist matters in Eastern Europe and reflects the personal, social and existential difficulties that female artists must face. Recurrent dual structures and the use of sexually ambiguous figures (androgynes and angels) as well as gender-neutralising elements inhabit her work, which occasionally acquires Shamanic overtones and integrates therapeutic mechanisms of liberation.
Zsófi Szemző born 1982 in Budapest, she is living and working in Budapest and lived in Paris 2008-2012. To develop conceptual components of her work, she free amateur live sex uses a variety of techniques and media mostly drawing and installation, but also photography, animation and video. She has developed several projects that were investigating ways of storytelling. She is interested to research different ways of narration in human interaction. In 2013 she started her doctoral studies at the University of Fine Arts, Budapest.
The exhibition is open until 29 January 2015.
Mon-Fri: 4-7pm
Thousand paper cranes for Budapest
According to the Japanese legend, the one who folds a thousand origami cranes may make a wish to the crane, which lives for a thousand years.
This tradition becomes the symbolic basis of the project „Thousand Paper Cranes for Budapest”, during which I folded a thousand paper cranes, which I printed one-by -one as papercuts. Each of the signed prints (along with the number of the crane) – to which a brief description of the project was attached as well – were put in envelopes. Together with the helpers of the project, we placed these envelopes at a thousand random points of Budapest.
What kind of life does the artwork start to live when it is left alone, exposed to coincidence? Where does it arrive?
The aim of making these prints is to have the opportunity to question the being and legitimacy of traditional reproducting processes of printmaking , or reproducting itself – although the thousand cranes are almost alike, they are unique, they were printed one-by one, and only one print is made of each. This leads to questions of originality, connections between originality and reproducting processes. How does the medium find its justification in the artwork, might it not be an impasse using it aimlessly, only for itself?
Exhibiting artist: Vidra Réka
Coordinator: Varga Krisztina
Thanks for the cooperation: Garai Rebeka, Gráf Dóra, Kiss Ágnes, Kollár Zsófia, Mulasics Manna, Szilák Andrea, Szitás Judit, Sztefanu Marina, Tettamanti Ádám, Török Virág, Cristian Staicu, Varga Krisztina, Vidra Annamária, Vidra Sándor
Photo by emesekiss
