fantASStic: Réka Ladányi // exhibition opening
Réka Ladányi's thoughts on the exhibition:
When I create a painting, I want to make people feel happy 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, abstract images and curvy butts are meant to give us the freedom to be silly and cool, to realise what wonderful people we are inside and out!
The booty images represent self-love and connection with our outsides, while the abstract images represent connection with our insides and each other.
Why abstract images?
For me, abstract images represent our inner and interconnectedness.
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 nested and disconnected forms, reflect this struggle in playful, funky shapes and colours, emphasising that no matter how serious our feelings and difficulties, we need to look at life from a slightly more relaxed and optimistic perspective. Because this is the spice, or rather the sweetener, that can lift us up. 🙂
Why booties?
When I got bored of painting abstract pictures after a while, I started to wonder what is sexy, cute, what everyone loves and admires. That's when I got the idea: booties. 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, aim to make us love our looks, accept them, admire ourselves as much as our favourite people around us.
DinDin Galéria
Young and recent graduates' paintings packed to the ceiling on 30 colourful and noisy square metres.