Artists Talk 3. 2011

AIR-HMC, International Artists in Residency, Budapest 2011

MAGYAR IRÓSZÖVETSÉG (PenClub)
Budapest VI. ker. Bajza utca 18. I. floor

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Program:
6:00 - Joshua Watts, UAE/US -- installation, photograph, mixed media
6:30 - Tilley Stone, KY -- painting, drawing

Please join us to learn more about the artists!

Joshua Watts has been an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates since 2008. Teaching a variety of courses in printmaking, drawing, mixed media, and book structures.

Tilley Stone has consistently been interested in expressing and illuminating systems, intricacy, and repetition with unforgiving materials—drawing with pen and painting with inks.

An artist in residence at the HMC has the opportunity  to live and work here at the studio in Hungary . Many artists find this a valuable time to experiment and investigate new directions in their work. Many artists come here to complete a specific project or work for a major exhibition or just to be able to work in an environment with other creative artists.

The aim of this program is to investigate and showing of contemporary art, develop theoretical and practical self-help through critical development.

HMC is 501©3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures, through high quality art exhibitions, cultural exchanges and related educational programs. Based in Dallas and Budapest, the organization operates throughout the world. Incorporated in 1990.
www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com

AIR/HMC, MAVF, and Library Thoughts, Budapest exhibition 2011

Library Thoughts, Budapest exhibition

Raday Kepeshaz, 1092 Budapest, Raday utca 25.

August 24 - September 16, 2011

Opening reception: Wednesday, August 24 at 7:00pm
Opening remarks by Gyorgy Orban
Curator: Beata Szechy - HMC, Istvan Sziranyi -president of the Hungarian BookArt Association 

Exhibiting International Artists:
Bandy Laszlo-H, Marton Barabas-H, Lorena Carbajal-GB, Laara Cassells-CDN, Michael Connors-WI, Nick Davies-UK, Andrea Eis-MI, Melissa Gasparotto-NY, Gert-Jan van den Bemd-NL, Liz Goldberg-PA, Cynthia Gregory-KY, Susan Hase-AUS, Matthew Herring-UK, Enrico Hirashima-SGP, Melanie Irwin-AUS, Sandee Johnson-NC, Naomi Kasumi-WA, Csilla Kelecsenyi-H, Roberta Lavadour-OR, Andras Lengyel-H, Kichung Lee Lizee-TN, Kate Morrell-UK, Catherine Nicolas-F, Tibor Pataki-H, Pamela Paulsrud-IL, Roland Ruisz-D, Melissa Smith-TX, Valeria Sovaradi-H, Holly Streekstra-IN, Beata Szechy-H, Istvan Sziranyi-H, david K (Thompson)-CT, Christopher Troutman-IL, Nancy Kay Turner-CA, Laszlo Sandor Vasvari-H, Alice Chebba Walsh-NY, Deborah Whistler-IN
AIR/HMC, Budapest:
Pip Brant-FL, Elaine Byrne-IRL, Joan Edlis-UK, Michal Gavish-CA, Julia Hitchcock-TX, Benjamin Page-CA, Jinhee Park-UK, Tilley Stone-KY, Paulo Cesar Teles-BR, Joshua Watts-UAE
Video Artists: 
Ophir Agassi-NY, Lesley Ash-OH, Charlotte Cornaton-F, EQUΔLΔTERΔL (Emily DiCarlo, WJ Wilson, Jacqui Arntfield)-CDN, Rajorshi Ghosh-OH, Liz Goldberg-PA, Yunna Kim-NY, Christine Lucy Latimer-CDN, Levy Li Sva-IL, Valeria Lopez-CA, Sebastian Mundwiler-CH, Bridget Riversmith-MN

The exhibition is supported by Raday Konyveshaz Kft. - www.radaykonyveshaz.hu & HMC - www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com

The Inner Act - exhibit in Budapest 2011

Jeremy Austin
&
annavarro (Kiss Anikó)

The Inner Act

Music by Zsigmond Deak
Curator: Beata Szechy

Opening on Monday, 1 August 2011 at 7:00 pm
The exhibition will be open until August 20.

Raday Kepeshaz, 1092, Budapest, Raday utca 25.

annavarro (Kiss Anikó)
The artist called “annavarro” (born as Aniko Kiss) displays as kinetic models those of her works, which were appeared before through other media, like paintings, photos, movies or graphics, and all of which she held independent.  Old works are in the new context reinvented as new ones.  The artist places in her works mobile components, triggering changes in the various forms of visualisation as the case arises.  Adjustments in the original forms are implemented through copying, re-drawing, insertion into the work of new layers, recording part of old works, or motion picture.  Visitors can catch a new glimpse of the oeuvre, while comparing with each other the various formats, in which the artist’s visions are manifested.

Jeremy Austin removes the nonessential, refining to an absolute, to achieve compositions with a detached relevance. Works are executed achromatically and demarcated specifically in sections of nine, nineteen and ninety-five. Numbers significant to the Bahá’i Faith (the idea that there are lucky and unlucky numbers is explicitly rejected by the Bahá’i writings). Their significance originates from the traditional Abjad system of letter-number equivalence to express religious concepts. The process also incorporates the use of prayer and meditation. The work is therefore the result of a focused systemic spiritual approach. "In my collages I utilize cut, torn, and abraded paper and rely on subdued painting and drawing techniques to construct non-objective works. The drawings are white-on-
white or heavily burnished graphite surfaces with inscribed delineations.