21 Nov An art exhibition from the point of a designer: Art Market 2022
One of the most significant international contemporary art exhibition and fair in Central and Eastern Europe was organised this year for the 12th time. We are always looking forward to it and year by year we visit it to refill ourselves and to develop our artistic skills. We found it very important to feel up-to-date in the world of art objects and to build personal relationships with the artists -Art Market is the right place for that. The other reason of ours to visit Bálna is that we have always been very receptive to art during our planning: we often adapt statues, paintings or well captured photos into our spaces.
According to our traditions, we arrived on time, since the 8000 square metres huge, 4 storey exhibition needed a lot of time to see. This year 120 exhibitors were invited where 30 countries showed themselves. We could also enjoy the Exhibition of Art Photo Budapest and 360 Design Budapest, too. We met a lot of outstanding galleries and artists that day, so much that we could hardly introduce them in one blog post. This is the reason why we are going to talk about only our favourites- and so you’ll be willing to visit Art Market 2023. 😊
We mostly visited Hungarian artists, this is how we met Zsuzsanna Szvath whose paintings find definitions for human emotions, isolations and fears. At the half of our day we were completely filled with a lot of impressions, and despite our tiredness her soft brush-lines and beautifully painted colours picked our attention. We can find her tight bonding with the magnificent buildings of Budapest, as she loves to pair human figures with parts of famous buildings- that’s how she softens the straight lines.
By walking further on a grandiose statue took our eyes. It was made by Laszlo Taubert. His creations show present and past at the same time by pairing classic lines with the modern sculpturing technique. This is an exciting game with the division of classic forms without losing the value and characteristics.
Getting closer to the end of the day we could still see quite exciting art pieces. Zsombor Barakonyi’s city views had a very special atmosphere. The city appears as a special being by mixing the metropolitan graffiti tools with traditional cinematography. During our short conversation he talked about his creation processes in which the order of the layers have a very special and important role: it represents the conscious and pre-planned design of his.
We have already known Áron Zsolt Majoros’s art work for years and we still adore his statues built from special pieces. The used hard materials, eg steel and wood, and the layering technique completely balance and soften each other, this way making his art pieces clear and airy. His statues are bridges between the archaic plastic attitude and the nowadays so innovative point: the layering technique.
Glass has an important role in our everyday lives and we often use it during designing -even if it is only a glass door or the nowadays more and more often used glass furniture. 2022 is the year of glass which was highlighted at the exhibition as well, so we would also like to talk about the pieces that touched our hearts.
Bernadett Hegyvari’s 3D pieces have the signs of the duality of picture and statue which the game of up and down strengthens and this also strengthens and enriches uncertainty and lets the viewer process both versions. Although glass is one of the main products of applied art, she creates statues and other 3D pieces. Her sculptures challenge our sights, as some things hide while others fall out of the picture. This is an exciting game with sharp lights, the polished and polarised glass.
There was Kyra Laszlo amongst the Kiskep Gallery’s glass artists, who enchanted us at first sight. Graphic effects help the illusion of a special spacious visuality in Her glass plastics, where the examination of differences and similarities and the duality of power and emotions have an important role. She works with monochrome colours, so her plastics become alive with lights, its mood changes because of the lights- this is how she shows the variegation of glass.
We have already met Sandor Korei’s art work on an other exhibition, where the thoughtfulness about passing away behind his pieces had a great effect on us. The well- known flower piece still life comes alive in his paintings, mainly those which are from the low countries and are called vanitas still lives, where uncertainty, fate and death is shown. The artist puts organic or inorganic materials into glass boxes to observe different situations eg freshly cut flowers and vases are put into regular structures which are closed into a well-cut glass keeper, so it is put into sculptural space. The art piece highlights the short life of the flowers and besides that reflects to passing by which is always behind the beautifully tied bouquet. We can clearly observe this process as it is always changing just like organic materials are always changing and start to break down.
At the end of our post we would like to introduce some artists from the MOST.SERBIA art festival. This year one of the most important pursuits was to make the values of the Serbian culture and the relevance of Hungarian-Serbian cultural cooperation touchable, alive and relevant for the audience by using contemporary art tools. They introduced their country’s contemporary art on 11 stands out of which we have chosen our favourites.
Aleksandar Kempa Stanojevic’ s pieces’ most important message is remodelling, through which he creates contemporary art pieces from every day objects. The base of his art pieces is built up by junk objects pointing out the wastage of consumer society, but also highlighting the option of recycling. His new abstract pieces are covered with paper maché technique and by following the form of construction he creates new figures and also reflects synthetic and artificial things.
Nina Ivanovic’s art pieces are inspired by nature walks and the rethinking of a landscape. We can find rivers and the flow of rivers in her work and these reflect to our present days where in the sea of uncertainty We have to be able to go with the flow that means we learn to assimilate to the circumstances flexibly and fluently. Since nothing is stable in life including her plastics as well, which are made of iron and copper wires and which lose their materiality in space. Her 3-D art pieces in front of the white exhibition walls reminded us of the sketches on white sheets that become a memorable experience in space.
See you next year, Art Market!
