kiállítás

A kiállítást megnyitja:                 Bordács Andrea, esztéta, NYME Művészeti Intézetének igazgatója

A megnyitó időpontja:                 2015. szeptember 11., péntek, 19 óra

A kiállítás megtekinthető:           2015. október 10-ig

Számítunk megtisztelő jelenlétére!

Németh Orsolya
galériavezető

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Dear Friend!
 

Opening speech:                    Andrea Bordács, aesthete, director of NYME Art Department

Opening date:                        11th September 2015., Friday, 7pm

Open until:                            10th October  2015.

Your presence will be an honour!

Orsolya Németh
director
   

The first individual exhibition of Árpád Csaba Horváth (1980) at NextArt Gallery deals with the shift in balance of global balance, and thus the resulting fear among the western civilizations, investigated through symbolic and architectural elements. Exploring the dialogue between the rational and the random through the use of poetic tools.

Reconstructing history from a personal position, the exhibition contains key elements of modernism, structural philosophy, the beginning of popular television, and the architectural directions between the ‘50-’70s. Through this historical position however, the artworks do not focus on the past, but the present, or more accurately, compose questions with regards to the present fears of civilization.

Árpád Csaba Horváth has concerned himself with the objects surrounding humanity, and the mutual effects of their use for years. Studying what intellectual constructions originate from the surrounding objective world, and the constructed environment. How things become “meanings” , and how they can evolve, acquire new “meanings” while retaining the elements of their original relationship? The historical start point of the phenomenon originates from the expanded world view begun with the explorations in the 17th Century. Expansion, and the resulting global commerce, alongside glut, created the triumphal arc and the shopping center construct at different ends of the spectrum.

The exhibited works consist of two reliefs, a large statue, drawings, photos, and an animated short film. The installations represent once functional objects transformed into unique, miniature memorials, while the used elements of form organized in a distinct pattern allude to objects and buildings both present in collective thought, and forgotten.  In the space system created the structures of “form” and “meaning” are placed into a new dialogue, the evolution of which reacts to the changes in global powers, and the resulting fears among western civilization. Most actual of these fears being global terrorism, and the increasing nationalist response.

“The installations construct a subjective read of post World War 2 of European history through personal experiences and associations. In this scenario constructing is not meant to be understood in a metaphoric sense, as the installations are created from reevaluated elements of existing buildings and objects. The thus emerging new structures deal with fears that appear time and time again since the beginning of the cold war, constituting of both rational and irrational ideas. From the exhibited four pieces, the installation pair created from the set of “Wheel of Fortune” is concerned with the role of randomness and the subconscious. Opposing this, are the two works ironically representing careful planning and rational thinking, the illustration of the flipped triumphal arc, and the educational 'play dough animation' about nuclear dust.”

Árpád Csaba Horváth