Invitation
AIR-HMC, International Artists in Residency, Budapest - Artists Talk 6, 2009.

HMC/Medosz, Hunting Conference Room
Budapest, VI. Jokai ter 9.

Host: Beata Szechy

Program:
Wednesday, December 30
    10:00-Daniel Temkin, Astoria, NY --  photo
    10:30-Françoise Duresse, Boulder, CO  -- video, mixed media
    11:00-Sudhir Kumar Duppati, New Zealand --  painting
    11:30-Esta Roh, Chicago IL -- mixed media
    12:00-Marian O’Donnell, Ireland -- painting
    Lunch
      2:00-Neil Chowdhury, Syracuse, NY -- digital photomontage, digital video, and mixed media.
      2:30-Annie Heckman, Chicago, IL  -- installation, video, drawing
      3:00-Richard Soler, Houston, TX -- masks

***  Daniel Temkin: "The Metro Postcard project" highlights the struggle of the modern city to retain its character against the influx of chain stores and generic commercialism. It is made up of postcards of banal urban stores that could seemingly be anywhere, while providing visual clues, or superimposed text (in a style typical of postcards) identifying the location. These postcards are blown up to a large size...
***  Françoise Duresse:  My work introduces both performance as well as manipulation with the image by drawing and painting directly on the surfaces of film and layering video footage. The nature of my work relies on the visual and narrative that materialize through the joining of images associated with direct handwork of traditional mediums such as painting, drawing and photography. I use customary pictorial codes, merge with the characteristics of cinema to produce animate images that are historically grounded within the traditional art-making practices...
***  Sudhir Kumar Duppati:  The concept of Evolution in my work is a response to the Contemporary and Historical aspects of Human Existence. Perhaps my imagination about Genesis is but a part of the whole concept of evolution and its process. This is about my personal experiences of imagining the origins of life. My paintings engage in a religious and scientific understanding and reasoning about the process of evolution. My ideas are drawn from the aspects of the theory of Evolution by natural selection proposed by Charles Darwin, the big bang theory proposed by Stephen Hawking and the religious creation of life...
***  Esta Roh:  I usually have a lot of dreams at night.  Many of them are nightmares, so I constantly tried to ignore them.  However it has been getting bigger and bigger, and starting to take out considerably large part of both my feelings and everyday lives.  So it finally leads me a decision on this new project.  I felt that it was time for me to find out why I had to have such dreams at night, and what their meanings were.  Finding out the meaning of dreams by using a drawing is quite interesting.  Since most dreams leave me some kinds of atmospheres or feelings rather than clear imagery, the process of imagification can be only possibly made through my imagination. In the middle of this process, dreams are somewhat distorted. I call it “re-dreaming process."
***  Marian O’Donnell:  What I appreciate most about it is the architectural space. This is enhanced by the exciting new constructions being built and their juxtaposition with the classical architecture International Celtic Sculpture Trail, Otzenhausen, of the previous generations. Other cities have not been so successful in this marriage of styles. I like the mid scale of the city: not so tall that the human feels diminished. The larger buildings are complimented by space on the ground. For me the city creates a sense of ‘cool space’ which I find inspirational...
***  Neil Chowdhury:  As a mixed British and Indian, raised in the United States, I witnessed and took part in post-colonial battles playing themselves out on a domestic scale.  For me the complex history of Indian calendar and commercial imagery signifies the emergence of my own identity, a slow process of assimilating influences from both cultures.  These images, collaged with my documentary photographs function as a kind of subversive bridge between cultures with the understanding that part of their richness arises from the multiple
meanings that are doomed to different interpretations by individuals on either side of the East-West divide.  Finding some way to reconcile these differing perspectives inspires my creative project...
***  Annie Heckman:  You told me that the end of life looks just like the mouth of a broad tunnel: a project on Budapest's Labyrinth and Bridges
My project is an exploration of Budapest’s Labyrinth and Bridges through drawing and installation, with potential publication and animation outcome, as a way to look for resemblances to pictures of the afterlife as formulated in different philosophies, religions, and visual narratives: the mythic underworld tunnels of hell and the pearly gates of heaven. I will use the Budavari Labirintus as a physical starting point to consider visual metaphors for death and loss, with a special attention to the writings of Maria Nagy, a Hungarian psychologist who investigated the relationship between age and comprehension of death, most notably in her 1948 study with children and adolescents in Budapest. The bridges of Budapest will serve as a visual reference for the grandeur of imagined entryways and portals. My studies will involve text-based historical and contemporary research as well as the creation of photographs, drawn materials, and field notes.
***  Richard Soler:  I am a mask maker. I produce art masks, rarely wearable. Masks have been a part of my life since I began to sculpt as a teenager. My purpose in visiting Budapest is to seek out new opportunities for inspiration, that will encompass the Hungarian heritage and my own interests. My own work is akin to craft, because I extensively use media like papier-mache, yet I have a more sophisticated approach. I love folk art, dolls, costumes, theater and the magic of make-believe. I am not an actor, but I can play many roles through my masks.

An artist in residence at the HMC has the opportunity  to live and work here in Hungary . Many artists find this a valuable time to experiment and investigate new directions in their work.  Many artists come here to complete a specific project or work for a major exhibition or just to be able to work in an environment with other creative artists.
The aim of this program is to investigate contemporary art, develop theoretical and practical self-help through critical development. 

HMC is 501©3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures, through high quality art exhibitions, cultural exchanges and related educational programs. Based in Dallas and Budapest, the organization operates throughout the world.  Incorporated in 1990.

Further information: Beata Szechy, bszechy@yahoo.com

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http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com





Meghivó
AIR-HMC, Nemzetközi Müvésztelep, Budapest
Szerda, December 30      
Artists Talk/6

Minden érdeklõdõt szeretettel várunk! Az elõadás nyelve angol.

Medosz, Vadász terem
Budapest, VI. Jókai tér 9.



Hazigazda: Széchy Beáta   
   
Program:
    10:00-Daniel Temkin, Astoria, NY --  photo
    10:30-Françoise Duresse, Boulder, CO  -- video, mixed media
    11:00-Sudhir Kumar Duppati, New Zealand --  painting
    11:30-Esta Roh, Chicago IL -- mixed media
    12:00-Marian O’Donnell, Ireland -- painting
ebed szünet
      2:00-Neil Chowdhury, Syracuse, NY -- digital photomontage, digital video, and mixed media.
      2:30-Annie Heckman, Chicago, IL  -- installation, video, drawing
      3:00-Richard Soler, Houston, TX -- masks

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A HMC 501(c)3 nonprofit szervezet , amely 1990-ben alakult azzal a céllal, hogy kiállítások, fesztiválok, zenei programok és művésztelepek szervezésével erősítse a kulturális kapcsolatokat.  Továbbá segítse a művészeket az alkotásban és munkáik bemutatásában.

További információ: Széchy Beata, bszechy@yahoo.com

Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc. (HMC)
http://www.hungarian-multicultural-center.com