fantASStic: Réka Ladányi at DinDin Gallery

Réka Ladányi's thoughts on the exhibition:

When I create a painting, I want to make people feel happy, cute and cheerful when they see my works. With my pictures I wish all people to love themselves, to accept themselves for who they are and to be incredibly proud of themselves. Often we take life and ourselves too seriously, these colourful, curvy, abstract images and juicy butts are meant to give us permission to be silly and cool, to realise what wonderful and cool people we are inside and out!

The butt images represent self-love and connection with our outsides, while the abstract images represent connection with our insides and each other.

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Why abstract images?

For me, abstract images symbolize our inner-connectedness with each other.

I feel that one of the greatest tasks in life is to be able to have a healthy relationship with ourselves and our environment, to find out the reasons for our behaviour and the behaviour of others, to understand them, to accept them, to let them go, to work on them in order to feel better in our own skin, in our lives, in our relationships.

My abstract paintings, with their interlocking and diverging forms, reflect this struggle in playful, clownish shapes and colours, emphasising that however serious our feelings and difficulties are, we need to look at life from a slightly more relaxed and optimistic perspective.

Why butts?

When I got tired of painting abstract images after a while, I started to think about what is sexy, cute, something that everyone loves and admires. That's when the idea came: butts. Round buttocks are always said to be beautiful, so I painted one. Then dozens of them. These beautiful shapes are the focus of my exhibition, which, apart from hopefully bringing a smile to everyone's face, aims to make us love our looks, accept them, admire ourselves as much as our favourite people around us.