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Kata Huszár (D/H)
Marc Redford (UK)
Kata Huszár deals with social issues. She often uses all different genres/types of media, she claims to be an intermedia artist, telling that she is creating something out of a concept. The concept chooses the media and not the other way around.
However she sometimes works with video, photo, the so called new media, her world of expression is most likely installation. Since she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, she's been working abroad a lot, enjoying collaboration, using spontanious situations and turning them into her imagination.
In her recent projects you can see that she was trying to represent a female world, gynacologists' territory, a basic, sentimental and complex way of living together with the opposite sex.
Her video piece named 'AAAMRCTK' was recorded in a flat, exploring intimate spaces shared/divided by man and woman. The video contains four scenes; the kitchen scene, the bathroom scene, the bedroom scene and the hallways scene. What you see is that they do try to work together effectively, complete eachother, take everything for granted. There is no human voice because they probably do not need to say anything to make the viewers understand what the scenes are about. Except the first scene, which was set in the kitchen, showing how the load up the dishwasher, the couple-Marc and Kata- are moving slowly, hold on to eachother tight. That kind of balance has been important for the artists.
The title of the video and also the theme of it is corresponding with Huszár's further pieces. In her installation 'My bitter hands' she is pouring the audience with her fonts each standing for a male in her life. She hasn't necessarily needed to have slept with all these people, in her phantasies they were important personalities, possiblities, mistakes or passionate, lazy thoughts. The plaster hands symbolize the hands of an examining gynacologist in act. She combines passion and panic, inner angst of being pregnant or infected. These two thoughts are relatives though, she can't deal with them so easily. Huszár exactly knows she is not even in danger but hard facts aren't relevant for her. She keeps on panicing. Her objects the 'Gloves' are pretty similar. She often comes back to the same materials/objects in her work such as bulbs, foam, plastic gloves etc. Kata Huszár has pasted male names using black stickers on these plastic gloves and put them in front of our noses.
Jens Besser
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participating artists:
Kata Huszár (D/H)
Marc Redford (UK)
curator: Jens Besser(D)
Project Room 14 / Cyprián Majerník Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Opening on Friday, April 9th, 2010 – 6PM
Exhibition duration: April 10th – May 15th, 2010
Opening hours: TUE – SAT / 2PM – 6PM
Kata Huszár (1982) intermedia artist, born in Budapest, lives and works in Dresden)
– University degree (MA) – Academy of Fine Arts Budapest, Intermedia Department 2006
– Postgraduate studies – Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, 2008–2010
– Running the project space KOLONI in Dresden 2008
– Hungarian / international shows and presentations in Germany, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic and Austria.
online portfolio:
www.aranypehely.wordpress.com
www.koloni.wordpress.com
However she works with video, photo, the so called new media, her world of expression is most likely installation. Since she graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, she's been working abroad a lot, enjoying collaboration, using spontanious situations and turning them into her imagination. Kata Huszár.