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Edson Chagas [ANG]
Tipo Passe
Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.2024.12.04 - 2025.01.05.
On view: 0-24hTipo Passe by Angolan photographer Edson Chagas, is a series that addresses questions of history, culture and identity. The artist’s birthplace of Angola was subjected to colonial rule by the Portuguese from 1575 until independence in 1975. The culture and traditions of the local population were largely disregarded and ‘unseen’ by the European colonialists.
Edson Chagas stages portraits of models wearing traditional African masks borrowed from a private collection. The artefacts have been extrapolated from their history and context; the sitters are dressed in contemporary clothes from street markets, complementing the colours and forms of the masks. These objects with immense ritual meaning and a compelling presence are suspended between worlds, and prompt the viewer to question the reality of what he or she is perceiving
The images in this series are photographed in the style of passport photographs. Chagas has used this format, perhaps the most common form of photography, and transformed it into large-scale portraits. A globally recognised form of identification and the fundamental document to enable migration and movement across borders, passport photograph has an increased significance in the twenty-first century.
Edson Chagas was born in 1977 in Luanda, Angola, and lives between Angola and Portugal. He studied photography at the University of Wales in Newport, London College of Communication, and Portugal's Escola Técnica de Imagem e Comunicação and Centro Comunitário de Arcena.
In 2013, Chagas’ Found Not Taken series was exhibited at the Angolan Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, winning the Golden Lion for best national pavilion.
Solo exhibitions have taken place at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town; Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna; Instituto Camões – Centro Cultural Português, Luanda; and Belfast Exposed Photography. Shortlisted for the 11th Novo Banco Photo Award; recipient of the 2018 African Art Award presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
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Curator: Gábor Pintér
Supported by Erzsébetváros Municipality
Cooperation partner: Bischitz Johanna Integrated Human Service Centre
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[image: Edson Chagas: Emmanuel C. Bofala, Tipo Passe, 2014]
Éva Juhász
Iron Lady
PUCCS Contemporary Art
2024.12.16-2025.01.29.
opening: 2024, December 16, 6-7:30pm
Éva Juhász tries to direct the attention towards complex layering behind the obvious associative readings of the view. All her visions, characterised by a dense content that can be treated as poetic images, are realised in a close, causal relationship of consistent colour, material, form, technique and compositional choice in the design, with a strong symbolic intention. These visual essences have an extensive field of interpretation and the completeness of their appearance, along with their titles are capable of exerting a highly differentiated effect on the imaginary world of the viewer through personal life experiences and impressions, as well as through our collective conceptual traits. The visual world and symbolism of arthropods has been dominating the artist's work in various genres since she finished university years.
Éva Juhász lives and works in Budapest and Gyermely. She started her art studies at the Secondary School of Fine and Applied Arts (Kisképző) faculty of painting, and graduated from the Sculpture Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2017. She has been teaching pattern making and drawing at Szimultán Art School for several years. She was awarded the Sculpture Society Prize at the VI Sculpture Biennale 2023. Her first solo exhibition, Something_happened_to_us_- _back_to_the_future, was held at Art9 Gallery in the spring of 2024. Her next solo exhibition will be at the Karinthy Szalon in Budapest.
[Iron Lady, 2024, powder coated steel, galvanized steel, brass, copper]
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Puccs Contemporary Art, 1084 Budapest, Víg u. 22.
Organised by Parallel Art Foundation
Supported by Józsefváros Municipality
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Cia Rinne [FI]
jegyzetek a háborúról
(notes on war)
Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.2025 January 9 - February 2
On view: 0-24hCia Rinne is a Finnish conceptual poet who lives in Berlin. She writes in a dual tradition of European sound poetry. Polyglot – she alternates English, French, Italian and German with a playful approach to concrete poetry archetypes with puns, visual gags, materiality of language, and effects of meaning.
notes on war is part of notes for soloists that is series of visual and concrete poetry. Instigated by a deep mistrust in language and its use, the short pieces examine the smallest parts of language and its rhizome, playing with phonetic similarities and shifts in meaning, visuality and sound. The minimalist pieces are the result of a reduction towards nothing.
Cia's approach is multifaceted. She once said in an interview: I always used to play little word-games at school while writing or listening to something. Then it became more severe when I was studying philosophy that so much dealt with language. We were disputing about every single word, and the resulting language often turned out to sound ridiculous. In order to say something really clearly you have to be quite precise in your use of language, so as to avoid any possibility of misunderstanding. Many discussions were structured around the definitions and use of words and concepts. Philosophical language is often a very peculiar language. Wittgenstein wrote: “A proposition is completely logically analysed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in.” Somehow, this way of thinking affected me. You immediately react logically to formulations that could be misunderstood and need to use the most minimal expression possible to keep that potential at stake.
Cia Rinne refers to the importance of her experiences from a long-term research project on the language of the Roma as fundamental to an understanding of how movements between different languages and places – a kind of linguistic nomadic life – have led to an interest in the political and cultural gaps and shifts in meaning of language that are the basis of her work. She also points to the Fluxus movement, musicians like Steve Reich and John Cage, and philosophy as sources of inspiration. By twisting and turning words and shifting language within the same sentence, she plays with the meaning of words and their phonetic and visual similarities and differences. In her performances, she explores, among other things, the relationship of the body and the voice to language, and how the body can function as a meaningful sign. In addition to being permeated by the language of philosophy and the philosophy of language, Rinne’s practice also contains a great deal of humour.
Cia Rinne (1973) was born in Gothenburg but grew up in Germany, Finland, and Denmark, and is now based outside Berlin. She has published four collections of poetry, written opera libretti, and several texts for the stage. Her work has been exhibited in Marabouparken konsthall in Stockholm, Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, and Centre Pompidou in Paris; and is represented in collections such as the MOMA Artist Book Collection, Bibliothèque des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Copenhagen City Collection.
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Curator: Gábor Pintér
Cooperation partner: Bischitz Johanna Integrated Human Service Centre
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Zsuzsanna Szentpéteri
Anyone
Cairo Contemporary, Budapest
1071 Budapest, Lövölde tér 7.2025 February
On view 0-24hThis early stage of development is not so far away from the archetype of vertebrates. Yet it represents a physical form of our unknown past, there is even a conventional uncertainty to what extent could it be considered as part of our life. The relationship between formative forces and the individual soul remains to be explored: all our experience relating to this period is inaccessible, the wideness of our possibilities are unforeseeable.
As a sculpture student at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Zsuzsanna Szentpéteri is most interested in the artistic approach to epistemological problems: through the illusions of perspective anamorphosis, transparency and reflection, she explores the subjectivity of spatial experience, the boundaries of the relationship between body and soul, the self and the outside world. She also deals with thematic representations of natural phenomena and current social problems.
For interiors, she mainly creates large-scale installations, using a variety of materials and technical solutions to suit the concept. For years, she has been a regular participant in the Nature Art Open Workshop residency programme at the National Botanical Garden in Vácrátót. Her landart work is located in Scotland and was created as part of a community project. She has had several solo exhibitions at the Calvary in Epreskert, and has been included in group exhibitions at 1111 Gallery, MAMŰ Gallery, ISBN Gallery, FUGA and HfBK Dresden. In 2024, the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asian Art exhibited one of her works in the museum garden.
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Curator: Gábor Pintér
Cooperation partner: Bischitz Johanna Integrated Human Service Centre
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Bálint Gutay
How deep an iceberg is
2025 April
Details are coming soon!
[photo: Ádám Kuttner, Fresh meat, K6 Gallery, 2024]