Guided tour | Bea Zoltai: Retention – Release
Bea Zoltai presents works that have been recycled from found materials in her solo exhibition, and transformed into artworks with narrative. The exhibition asks, among other things, what is the difference between valuable and worthless and what turns a used potato sack into a work of art.
During the guided tour, visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the details, while discovering their own individual interpretations through the artist's unique perspective.
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Bea Zoltai’s works are constructed from the seemingly insignificant fragments of our everyday lives. Elements come together and breathe new life into themselves, which, on their own, we typically don’t assign much value to. This altered context transforms the carriers of dull memories into art objects. It highlights small details, turning the once silent observers of life into works that possess an independent narrative and visual quality.
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"The new, rearranged stories depicted in my works are completely independent of specific timeframes and spatial situations; however, the new relationships created between the visual elements construct a surface that embodies a highly authentic reality.
I can perceive my existence as a constant act of observation, where the direction and intensity of this observation can be chosen at will. The system of released and controlled moments selects the found and chosen visual elements and weaves them together into a new story. Even though we all have different systems of memory, I hope that everyone will be able to recognize their own stories and realities in the piece. For me, it is always the thought I want to realize that is most important. Sometimes, I use traditional painting tools for this, as I find them most suitable for the task. At other times, entirely different materials and processes emerge on the surfaces of my works. Over the past few years, my series of collages built into ink gesture surfaces and my stitch systems appearing on the surfaces of the works, created from old, hand-woven textile pieces, have been developed simultaneously.
Our daily experience is the continuous instability of authenticity and reality around us; with my works, I try to counteract this process."
(Extract from the concept of the Exhibition written by Bea Zoltai)
You can visit The exhibition from 12th of February to 7th of March 2025, during the gallery's opening hours.
