Night Photographs by contemporary artist Agi Vedres ~ ' We Can Feel the Location '

Written by Richard Bilyeu Thursday, 12 May 2011 20:11

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - Photographs by contemporary artist Agi Vedres (b. 1965, Budapest) are on view at Újlipótváros Club Gallery. Agi Vedres Hungarian photographer opens her NIGHT photo exhibition on 14^th October 2008 at 6 p.m. at Újlipótváros Club Gallery in Budapest. The contemporary photo artist makes the night perceptible in her individual photographic way. As if we would walk in Jim Jarmusch’s film “Night on Earth”, it is probable, that “Europe at night” would also be a perfect title for this exhibition. The photos were taken in different European countries, their strange, lonely, mystical atmosphere is what makes them coherent. We don’t see direct elements or well known places, we just feel the location.

Here there are bushes and trees, motorways and yellow street lights, night hotel room details, secrecy and the night which covers everything. All these are sensed by an Eastern European woman’s eye and at the same time it is rephrased. The exhibition itself is not showing NIGHT in the usual perception. The imperceptible, the incomprehensible time gives the photos intimacy, still the visible, composed pictures which make feels of night. Show will be on view from 14th October through 31 October 2008.

In 2007 showed her exhibition of “Immortal giants – first series”, in which she presented the Hungarian contemporary painters. The artist gives us a fine arts panorama about the works of never-forgotten artists, meanwhile the contemporary artists appears that places, which were created by the earlier artists.

Vedres read about a Chinese painter, called Vu Tao-ce, who stepped into his painted landscape and he disappeared forever its upland footpaths. It was so interesting for her, before she started to take pictures. Enter into possession place and time, than we dissolve in it irrevocably. In the sequel she was interested in old painters and the modern, too. She cottoned to an idea of witch’s brew, where she connect her artists’ friends to genius, who were lived for hundred years before. Afterwards she make a twist on this strange meeting and through her models conjure the classical painters. She climbs back to their heads and recompose their classical pictures, such a way, as she/he could ever painted it, like: Leonardo, Magritte, Csontváry, Botticelli, Cezanne and Kahlo. Certainly, is not the same way. Today, is today. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus is a Hungarian young artist who stands in her bluish-pink tiles bathroom in a tenement in Lövölde Square in Budapest.

In the witch’s brew of Vedres conversely meantime something is appears on the side of jar, a new quality is arised. Agi Vedres’ painters friends will be immortal forever. For them, who mesmerize with those who were mesmerized, they successfully imitated Vu Tao-ce, they annexed the place and time, and after they dissolve in it irrevocably.

/G. Valaczkay, art journalist/

Artist’s website at : www.agivedres.com

About artist: http://artportal.hu/international/angol/vedres_agnes

Újlipótvárosi Club Gallery - 1136 Budapest, Tátra u. 20/b. - Phone/fax: 36 1 320 5380

Monday – Friday from 2 P.M. to 8. P.M. - Show will be on view from 14th October through 31 October 2008.