Dániel Bencs: Meow Meow
Dániel Bencs was born in Budapest in 1990. Between 2009 and 2011 he studied graphic art at the Óbuda School of Fine Arts (OXI), and in 2012 he was accepted to the painting department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, in the class of Zsigmond Károlyi and Zoltán Ötvös. After graduation, he made an extended trip to Southeast Asia, which had a significant impact on his painting. Since 2020, he has been a member of the SKURC art association in Budapest, which organizes exhibitions and other art programs.
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The protagonist of the exhibition is a black cat, which I made a quick drawing of on the street during a trip to Spain five years ago. By repeating the simple motif over several pictures, I wanted to create a kind of transparency that can be observed, for example, in the continuous utterance of a word. After a while, the original meaning disappears and only the abstract ring of the word remains. The accumulation of identical sounds creates a saturated atmosphere, which has the hypnotic effect of suggesting timelessness. With my paintings, I want to set the gaze in motion in the same way that monotonous fast music can induce unconscious nodding, which can later easily evolve into dancing. I see the rotation, the continuous movement to and fro and the resulting return to the self, as a sketch of the infinite, which, continuing in our minds, we can approach sacral spheres. For me, it is a joyful world, similar to the immersion of small children in play. At the same time, the serene colours suggest pop culture, the radical repetition of mass production, which allows the motif to become a symbol, a logo, moving further and further away from the Spanish cat, the archetype.
