Nut Alley
Exhibition in Verzo Online Gallery
http://maimano.hu/verzo/erdei_krisztina_en.html
Krisztina Erdei’s Nut alley displays the element of surprise and recognition at the same time. She expresses her opinion about the inhabitants and their immediate environment in an explicit but compassionate way by connecting the seemingly unconnected.
She shares the essence of her experience in a sourly ironic, witty manner, full of characteristic emotional and intellectual content.
Although we are familiar with our human and material surroundings, the strangeness and finiteness these pictures exhibit make an intense impression on us.
However familiar these situations, faces, characters and everyday objects may get, we learn more about our surroundings seen through her artistic eye.
And whether we believe it or not, the Nut alley is only a stone's throw away from us.
Gabriella Csizek
Antiglamour
Exhibition in Godot Gallery, Budapest
Opening: 12. 01. 2012 8pm
"In the past two years I have thought about pictures only as a picture editor. The series "Antiglamúr" tells of this period. Barriers dissolve, what becomes visible is only located between the lines. As these pictures are illustrations to a non-existent text, they do not need to adjust to anything. Somebody is always alert on the photos. Certain characters pull away, to the background, while others are willing and able to step up into the spot light. The difference between these two types of responsibility is a potential drive to interpret this series. The pictures were taken in Ukrainen, Belgium, Lithuania, Kosovo, and Hungary." - Krisztina Erdei
Attracting international acclaim, works by Krisztina Erdei were shortlisted for BMW prize at Paris Photo 2010. Erdei's spicy humor and inventive cultural analysis sheds new light on one's everyday surroundings, typical situations of life.
One feels at ease thinking along the same lines as she does--the resctructuring of one's environment through communication of expressive, subjective content not only requires, but also triggers creativity, braveness, and sophistication. Krisztina Erdei's photos make one think. Bizarrely organic constellations are pointed out or created, ever readily to surprise the viewer.
It is never irrelevant where they have been taken--these pictures unfold histories in which the spirit of the locus speaks. All that takes place in the so-called peripheries, could not underestimated. Contemporary feel in Erdei's photos does not equal with worldly sterility of the iconic places, but rather in the grotesque found in hidden contexts, the triumphs of reinterpreting the local and the petty with a vividness of perspective.
These pictures are critical without becoming judgmental. Providing analysis with apparent care and fondness--although they notice what is revealed in rustic misinterpretations appearing as absurd with globalized eye, they do not prompt condescending laughter, but rather true, thorough attention.
Brigitta Iványi-Bitter
Open until: 11st February
JCE Biennial next inauguration at Klaipeda, Lithuania
The second exhibition of the 2011/2013 JCE circuit will open at Klaipeda, in the prestigious Klaipeda Culture and Communication Center ‘KCCC’, a brand new place dedicated to the discovery and promotion of young talents in contemporary art.
Opening: FRIDAY 20th, JANUARY 2012 / 6 p.m.
More info: www.jceforum.eu