The Still is Life: Bagi Attila egyéni kiállítása a MODEM-ben
We welcome you to the opening of our exhibition The Still is Life on 20 February from 18:00 at MODEM!
Schedule
Welcome address by Kata Vizi, Executive Director of MODEM
The exhibition will be presented by: Attila Bagi, artist and Edward Kovács, assistant curator of the MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art
About the exhibition:
Bagi Attila, who is based in Debrecen, Sweden and currently residing in Budapest, is a resident of Budapest, Hungary. His series of still lifes, which reimagines the representational tradition and media possibilities of still lifes in the changed material culture and technological environment of the 21st century, will be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Project Space of the MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art, which aims to showcase young artists.
Can we reach a glimpse of our own uniqueness through the contemplation of mass-produced commodities? What are the possibilities of showing personality despite the material indifference of our everyday objects? Can our objects, designed to be disposable, be used to preserve and transmit anything?
Each piece in the series presented in The Still is Life is an attempt to reimagine the long tradition of still life painting, the painterly grouping of objects, its topos and its scenarios. Attila Bagi's works do not contest the relevance of this genre of painting, but explore its possibilities of transmission, both in a tradition-conscious and path-finding way.
To this end, the artist often moves his objects out of the plane of the picture, creates installative situations, and creates tension between things and their representations. Everything that necessitates a rethinking and reinterpretation of a genre painting practice has drastically changed the conditions of viewing and the attitude of the viewer - the exhibition offers a correspondingly unconventional approach to a system of conventions.
Curator: Edward Kovács
The opening is free for everyone!
By attending, visitors accept that sound and image recordings will be made during the event and may be used for promotional purposes on MODEM's interfaces. We reserve the right to change the programme.
Center of Modern and Contemporary Art - Modemart
“The MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art is a cultural institution with international connections, which has two main missions: the exhibition of the most significant 20th century Hungarian and international works of art, and the representative presentation of the current schools and progressive efforts of the contemporary visual art and culture as well as most respected Hungarian and international artists.” The MODEM intends to realise those ambitious goals that the institution has set for itself during the start-up period. With one of the best infrastructural conditions in East-Central-Europe, the MODEM is to be an essential part not only of the visual art scene but the whole cultural sphere. The art center is suitable to represent that the culture has high priority for the institutes and the whole town. Therefore, one of our basic goals is to make the MODEM a wider intellectual space and forum to where not only the spectators but also the artists return regularly with pleasure. The primary point of view of the MODEM is the reconstruction of its character in the Hungarian art life, with the cooperation with new elements which strengthen the relation with the local and regional community as well as with the broader international cultural scene in a longer term perspective and form and run a multilevel and manifold network. We aim to create a brand new narrative which change the public opinion about the role of the contemporary art and make the visual art the part of the everyday life. An important goal of our programme is to represent the diversity of the contemporary art and to display the attendant art in different forms. In the selection of thematic exhibitions, not only the visual art gets into focus but the architecture and social science as well. The Antal‒Lusztig Collection also plays a major role in the MODEM’s life, since it is permanent part of the ground floor exhibition room. The items of the collection are presented by newly arranged exhibitions twice a year. Furthermore, the professional and accurate cataloguing of the collection has started simultaneously as well.