This week on Tuesday, I went to visit the Art Nouveau gallery as I haven't been there for awhile and as I left the city the next day, knew I may miss a good exhibition. Turned out it was the best decision I could make as it was the last week of a lovely exhibition and would have definitely missed it.
After so many years, I'm a regular there and the lady knows me well, therefore we always have a chat about what's on display and express our opinions.
The title of this exhibition was "Protest". Now, we all know what the word means, but from the meaning to the artwork it's a long way. After going through the exhibition, I asked the lady how are these exhibitions organized and found out there's the association of artists and you can only be a member if you have graduated from art school/university. Amateurs have no place there.
Each exhibition has a topic or a theme, which is announced well in advance and participation is up to each artist. If they have something that fits the topic, or can create something new till the exhibition date, they can participate.
As I mentioned at the beginning of my post, the topic of this exhibition was "Protest", which means each participating artist had the chance to express their thoughts, their view on the matter and show us how they see a "protest".
This was the first thing I saw when stepped inside the gallery. It was a bittersweet feeling as I knew the works were great, but the light ... The sun was shining outside, the gallery has glass walls and as you can see, some shadows made my job difficult.
Mana Bucur: Positive - Negative
The coolest thing about this exhibition was that each artwork not only had a title, but had a short explanation, or description as well. This type or exhibition is very rare, most of the exhibitions have artworks that don't even have a title, let alone a description, so everything is left to the imagination and understanding of the visitor. It's not a bad thing at all, it's good to see what the artist's idea was for once.
Positive - negative, white - black, good - bad, pro - con ... we're living under these contrasts (Yin & Yang) of which balance should never be broken.
Dalma Nagy - Nature's Exuberance
This is a fantastic shot, with deep meaning. I used to call similar shots "when nature takes over" and love taking such photos. Basically everything belongs t nature, humans are occupying their territory, but slowly nature takes back what it is theirs.
Regina Ioana Ionescu - Tense Landscape
This was where I really appreciated having some thoughts from the artist. First I wanted to see for myself and try to formulate my thoughts, then read the description. What do you think happened?
My thoughts and understanding on the collage was that this is how a human being is trying to manage life, calm and direct the water, high tides, to avoid problems. Was I wrong? Oh boy, big time!
This collage refers to a reaction to political conflicts and tensions. Like when artists are accused of siding and supporting one party or the other. Now go back, have a look and see if you could have guessed it. I couldn't.
Annamária Nagy - Drifting Against The Tide
This was a nice one and most likely is going to ruffle some feathers. Especially of those who are into digital art.
The concept of the work is based on the absurdity given by the antithesis between two opposing ideas: on the foreground (in the composition) we observe the act of opposition (resistance) to a new current, represented by the figure of the artist, who engraves the text "No Digital Art", turning her back in a proper and symbolic way to digital art, symbolized by a monitor. The absurd element emerges from the second plan, that of digital techniques, with which the work itself was made, suggesting the act of surrender in front of the new trend. This is how the conflict of the self appears in an ironic way.
Now, what do you think? Did you nail it? I doubt it 😂 but it's ok.
Enikő Bíró Kálmán - Burst 1, Burst 2
These two artworks symbolizes the artist's protest against the irresponsibility of humanity, corruption in politics and so on.
Honestly, seeing these works without explanation would have caused me missing the point. The artist says, when you have words, you can shout and scream, but when you only have graphics, this is how her protest looks like. Knowing all this, I can say, it's very expressive.
This is the first port about my visit. I tried to explain my experience, how I saw things, but I'm really curious how you see these works. Let me know in a comment.
There's a lot more to come, different works , different style.
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What a wonderful exhibition! The work Pisaje tenso... I saw conflict and protest, tension, effort, but I didn't see it as political, rather social.
As for digital art, I enjoy both types of art, especially since I studied graphic design. One of the things I enjoyed most was vector design. Now I can't do it for technical reasons, but I love everything that starts with lines that I turn into curves. It takes a lot of time and effort.
The latest works are wonderful. The red one was the one that impressed me the most! 😍
Which one is that? 😬
As about digital art, I am not against it, I am creating some myself, but there are so many that are kitschy and I don't like those. Especially those that look like collages, with flowers, faces, sunshine, waterfall and all that crap. Anyway, this is a personal choice or taste I'd say.
That is a powerful one, if you know what the artist meant and this is why it's good to know, but this is a double edge sword.
This is a tense landscape... or my translator is doing whatever it wants, ha ha ha.
It's a double-edged sword, but even without reading what it means, it's powerful!
Oh, that one! I agree, that is really powerful and you can interpret it the way you want. I bet if you line up 5 people and ask them what they see here, what this collage represent, you get 5 different answers 😂
That's what's interesting about art: it depends on who's looking at it and how it's interpreted, enriching each other!😃
Yeah, same as with lawyers. If you get 3 in the room on the same matter, you get 5 opinions 😆
That made me laugh, but it's true, incomprehensible things happen!
Enikő Bíró Kálmán - Burst 1, Burst 2: I think he made those thing deformed and ugly to represent all the sins and bad things of humans... It makes sense
Dalma Nagy - Nature's Exuberance: my favorite for this round
They are all not easy to catch, good there was explanation
More like human anger triggered by abuse, corruption in politics. How many times you've been so angry you could explode seeing all the abuse and you could do nothing. I think this interprets it perfectly.
Nature's Exuberance is a common one and it's meaningful too. It shows a lot of you can "read" it.
Stay tuned for the next one as there's more to come and even more interesting.
I'll be waiting next post ☺️
Dalma Nagy - Nature's Exuberance. Wow. Love the photo on so many levels. Just a great photo then you layer on the meaning. Bravo
Yes, that was a fantastic one. I have a few of my own and always love to take a shot when I see such places.
So good that you went to see that exhibition before leaving the city and you could share it with us because I love it.
I think this time I couldn't say which one is my favorite. I think the one with the red colors. It's so interesting to see what the artist thinks a protest should look like in graphics. I neither could have said it myself. It just reminds me something out of Stranger Things TV series.
The positive and negative I really like it as if it's made out of two pieces which I always love. Mostly when they are connected in some sort of interesting way as this one with the black and white.
And also find very interesting the one that looks like a collage. It says no digital art. It's actually very interesting.
The landscape one reminds me like a modern take of Dalí version of a painting (In a very simple way, respectfully towards the genius Dalí haha.)
Really nice exhibition. Glad you didn't miss it.
There were so many interesting pieces and the good thing was, i could take photos, to have them for later, and can now look at them, read the explanation and see what the artists meant.
There is more to come, different ones, so stay tuned.
Can't wait to see it! Let me know what you think of the one I saw in Berlin! I am sure you like it!
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Not a huge fan of this type of art, but the woman in a bathtub is a good one.
Haha it is interesting
Digital art is now what is mostly people are into it and that was a very wonderful exhibition. I am also learning digital arts and enjoying it.
Your photos truly tell a story! Each shot captures the emotion, energy, and tension of the location so vividly. The compositions and angles are spontaneous yet visually powerful, demonstrating your care and sensitivity to the scene. The results are authentic, bold, and meaningful.
Wonderful