Andrea Szilák: Rebirth
"I sought to depict the symbiosis of the nature around us with our frail nature while respecting the greatness of life. The difficult part is that sometimes we have to give up our ideas, how we feel that we have failed… and we need to build our ideas up from a new ground - which means that we have to accept losses (just like the perforated skin), but also respect them at the same time.Because, at the end of the day, we have learned something, and otherwise we would be unable to continue, continue on with a new skin, new moments of beauty and despair - a new life.
"This is how we find meaning in loss and find the strength to let go and move on.
'"Monster' means something that is unfamiliar, the fear of the unknown, of what is about to come. And yet, once you enter my exhibit, you are struck with beauty. The flowers. Then, you see the pierced skin hanging. But it is, or should be, a sense of total rebirth. Lilies represent innocence, and purity. And they arise from the soil, from our pain and vulnerabilities, our doubts and past, all we have left behind. They represent the everlasting quest of finding ourselves again and again. And each time, we can hopefully embrace the beauty of it all."
Venue: Kavics, Lágymányosi str. 20, Budapest On view: from 31 January, 2023 to 28 February, 2023. The exhibition can be visited in a pre-arranged time. For checking in, write to Gergő Fülöp: [email protected] The Monster has found shelter in ’Kavics’. It’s presence leaves an ambivalent feeling: although intrusively large, yet it seems as if it does not want to be visible. Taking a closer look, the surface of its skin is also strange: it is punctured, so his body has become translucent, and became as much "is" as "isn't" and as much wanting to exist as to disappear. His impersonal objectivity is multi-layered: the resigned man of our time, who is heaped under his past, present and future, and posesses a great power, but sometimes losing control over it. It would be difficult to say whether the insults to its body were caused by the outside world or by its self- mutilating, self-destructive actions, but apparently they are manifested as absence. The nature of the resulting void is twofold: what is a loss in terms of substance, is a chance to free oneself from the burden on the way to liberation. No one knows whether the Monster is mourning its losses, or whether it is merely in silent contemplation, waiting for something. It will not give an answer, that is certain. Cover image: Jan Amos Comenius – Orbis sensualium pictus (Anima hominis/ The Soul of man) |
EDUCATION, SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 The Scholarship of Young National Talent Programme 2020 – 2022 Budapesti Komplex SzC Kézművesipari Technikum, Creative Photography Course 2016 – 2017 Univesidad de Castilla- La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain, Campus Mundi, Erasmus+ Grant 2013 – 2018 Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Department of Printmaking 2012 – 2013 Jaschik Álmos Art School, Prinmtaking Course 2011 – 2012 Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Japanese major 2018 Exhibition of Jászberény Art Camp, Bartók 1 Galéria, Budapest, HUN 2017 Group performance at Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis, Kunsthalle, Budapest, HUN 2017 Exhbition of Nan-Art Art Camp, Synangogue, Mezőtúr, HUN 2017 Folyam(at)ok, Exhibition of Jászberény Art Camp, Lehel Movie Theater, HUN 2016 New Generation of KaposART, Újpest Gallery, Budapest, HUN 2015 Semmelweis Open Call Fine Arts Exhbition, Semmelweis University, Budapest, HUN 2015 Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, Tama University, Tokyo, JP 2015 Fine Art Youth Camp of the Carpathian Basin, Klebelsberg Kultúrkúria, Budapest, HUN 2014 Fine Art Youth Camp of the Carpathian Basin, Miercurea Nirajului, RO 2013 Beszélő képek, Hegyvidék Gallery, Budapest, HUN 2012 KaposART Nemzetközi Művésztelep, Móricz Zsigmond Művelődési Központ, Barcs, HUN |
PRINTED PRESS, PUBLICATION
Fazakas Réka: Animula - Test és lélek művészi egysége, Újművészet Online. 2022 Fülöp Tímea: Minden, ami nincs - A hiány az absztrakcióban, ÚjMűvészet, theoretical appendix, 2.2021, p 13-14 Schell Réka: Tükör által, homályosan, Műút online, 2021 Ván Hajnalka: Stigmák, sebek és jelek, A 30.Art Camp, Tiszatáj online, 2020 Vidra Réka: Az értelem álma, Gondolatok Szilák Andrea Bunker című kiállításáról, Tiszatáj online, 2021 Muladi Brigitta: Nincs harmadik út, ArtCamp, Jászberény, ÚjMűvészet, 2018/11 SOLO EXHIBITONS 2023 Monster, Kavics, Budapest, HUN 2021 Dive in (in collaboration with Alexandra Dicková), Art9 Gallery, Budapest, HUN 2019 Bunker, PINCE, Budapest, HUN 2018 Make yourself a(t) home, Levendula Gallery, Gödöllő, HUN 2014 Art Salon, Intact Academy, Budapest, HUN |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 G7 Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland, Szekler Museum of Ciuc, Miercurea-Ciuc, RO 2022 The Budapest of Péter Nádas Photo Award, Városháza tér, Budapest, HUN 2022 AT x Építészet x Tábor, Kővágóörs, HUN 2022 Animula, Mamű Gallery, Budapest, HUN 2022 Naraka, Manyi – Culture Workroom, Budapest, HUN 2021 Arcus Temporum XVII, Art Festival of Pannonhalma, HUN 2021 Art Camp 30! The jubilee exhibition of Jászberény Art Camp, Lehel Movie Theater, HUN 2021 National Ceramic Symposium, M21 Gallery, Pécs, HUN 2020 Stigmata, Jászberény Art Camp, Lehel Movie Theater, HUN 2020 Catalogue, Auróra, Budapest, HUN 2019 Exhibition of KaposART, Galeria Stary Ratusz, Olsztyn, POL 2019 Exhibition of KaposART International Art Camp, Szigetvár, HUN 2018 Ölelés, Jászberény Art Camp, Magyar Műhely Gallery, Budapest, HUN 2018 Exhibition of ‘Part’ – Partium Fine Arts Art Camp, Oradea, RO 2018 Diploma exhibition, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, HUN |
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