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INTERVENTIONS ARTISTS Árpád Daradics Adela Muntean
CURATOR Hunor Fogarasi
CURATOR ASSISTANT Rita Fazakas
OPENING SPEECH Dorel Găină
Árpád Daradics’s unmistakable gestures, his works are braving with time. Time does not have impact on Árpád Daradics’s unmistakable gestures, on his works. Something inscrutable, a secret point always remains in them, which may result from his basic creative temper, whose main source is reminiscence, the visual memory itself. His philosophy regarding pictures is rather intuitive than speculative, his shapes and forms are not purchased or borrowed, but in most of the cases they derive from his genetic memory, from the elaboration of his experiences. The particularity of his pictures often derive from these childlike intuitions, which seek to give a reassuring answer not only to the author itself, but also to the world, who rather believes in the unseen, in some sort of a fairy tale, than in everyday reality. Therefor the subjects of his works are also filled up with different metaphorical meanings, suggesting that the real has utterly been lost in our artificial world. Because not the objects, people and ideas change over time, but the way we see, observe, and understand them. It belongs to the particular method of Arpad Daradics to overset time’s calculation. He always smiles cheekily when he dares time. His works catch the viewer’s gaze with their aggressive irony and their thought-provoking ideas. They are carrying messages which tell us ironic and critical opinions about our conditions in our past and present world. Because „objects, people, and ideas do not change over time, what changes is the way we see, observe, and understand them” – claim others when quoting Daradics.
What remains from this entire world: the images. Images take control over the ideas. Ideology is gradually and generally changing into imagology. Because „objects, people, and ideas do not change over time, what changes is the way we see, observe, and understand them” – says Daradics. ***
INTERVENTIONS is not an ordinary exhibition. For the reason that the introduction text isn’t ordinary either. That’s also an intervention, one of its kind: intervening using Daradics’s modified toolbar. The self-image of the artist has been edited by us, colored with inset text bodies, a process that could be continued with the systematic rewriting/reformulating of the memorable thoughts that belong to the Daradics-reception, with a gesture of appropriation. But we won’t do that. We pass over this role and place to another intervention. On the opening occasion the exhibition will be turned to a real space for interventions. The invited media artist Adela Muntean will put in action some of her funny characters from her video installation against the pictures of Daradics. We are looking forward to see what the response will be. The toolkit of the artistic intervention is very wide, even it could range till the work of art is being destroyed. Of course, in this case we are not planning this. But at the same time we are happy to invite to a digital intervention those from the audience who possess a suitable device. If they don’t, we will help them.
The opening joins the event of Europe’s first networked exhibition, so on the same day the gallery will hold excitements for the whole evening. 6PM YOUR LOCAL TIME (6PM YLT) is a networked, distributed, one night contemporary art event taking place simultaneously in different locations, coordinated from one central venue and documented online via a web application. After a beta test successfully organized in the United Kingdom in October 2014, the format will show its full potential on July 22nd, when 100+ participants in 23 European countries and 4 different time zones will open their exhibits at the same time, documenting them in real time on the web platform 6pmyourlocaltime.com, the event’s primary venue. Participants and their audiences are invited to take pictures and videos and share them on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #6pmeu. The image feed will be transmitted in real time to www.6pmyourlocaltime.com. (6PM YLT – Presentation). So, this is the time for interventions, where the bloody-red of Daradics is more frequently turning into yellow or blue. Remember: the setting is hardly changing, only the glasses are constantly replaced. Daradics’s pictures have already occupied their places in the endless hall of time. Right now, panda bears are watching them. And all of them are waiting for their teleportation at 6pm on July 22.
SHORT DOCUMENTATION OF THE PRESENTED WORKS
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In the video installation of Adela Muntean we can follow a performative gesture made
production and the consumerist emotional exploitation. The spectators are silent witne
The work creates a link between the video medium and consumption habits, between m represent a bygone, regarding the projection of images, an almost obsolete medium,
serial production and the typical communication of the advertising industry. (Edith Lรกz
e in the public space of Ikea. The artist playfully draws attention on the artificiality, mass
esses of the events, finding themselves in complicity where the doer commits his deed.
mass production and everyday gestures. Although, nowadays the exhibited televisions their connection via video fragments highlights the ideas concerning the large-scale
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http://www.adelamuntean.com
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“Objects, people, and ideas do not change over time, what changes is the way we see, o
computer, photography, painting, sculpture and site works also. His graphics fascinate uses old photographs from the past two centuries, and became known in 2002 with
shocking the viewer with the intensity of emotions it radiates. Daradics’s works are full inner models of the past. (Zoltán Vécsi Nagy)
observe, and understand them�, believes Arpad Daradics. The artist works with drawing,
e the spectator trough their aggressive irony, and thought-provoking ideas. The artist his Red Stories. The designs of bright paint on darker backgrounds create themes by
l of irony that strongly judges past problems and their solutions, yet unmasks our false
http://daradicsarpad.gportal.hu
www.6pmyourlocaltime.com July 22, 2015