The Camera K’ARTE recently opened the exhibition Minciuni- Hazugságok – Lies, signed by Daradics Árpád. The exhibition is part of the “Contemporary Art in the Camera K’ARTE” project, now in its tenth edition.
“Daradics’ method processes images in a special way, giving them a “divine touch,” ironic and self-ironic. The recipe is straightforward: old black-and-white photos, fully embedded, tend to imbue the collages with nostalgia, while red graphic interventions, with subtle jokes and light and witty humor, outline the message through the relationship between the elements of the images.
Ease of play is doubled by depth of thought, which is why associations can be so effective. Creative image associations, such as emojis, the three wise monkeys, bodybuilders, and M&M figures, seem to have existed forever.
Daradics formulates something from reality that is well-aimed, clear, and perfectly fits into visual memes.” (Kata Ungvári-Zrínyi)
Daradics Árpád (b. Târgu Mureș, 1964) is the holder of the Munkácsy Mihály Award and the National Cultural Heritage Professional Award. He graduated from the “Ion Andreescu” University of Fine Arts in Cluj Napoca in 1990. He lives and works in Budapest. He is a member of the National Association of Hungarian Artists, the Hungarian Electrographic Society, and the MAMŰ Society—participant and awardee at biennials and triennials abroad.
Contemporary Art in the Camera K’ARTE
The tenth edition of the project “Contemporary Art in the K’ARTE Room” will focus on community, especially on this constant, permanent, and reciprocal shaping relationship between artists and community.
In this anniversary year, the project hosts only artists with Muresian origins who have developed extraordinary careers in art but who, despite this fact, have exhibited rarely or not at all in the community that generated them.
Artists born in different decades (50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s) whose career and artistic discourse were shaped by extremely diverse socio-political contexts: Gabriela Vanga, Alexandru Antik, Teodor Graur, Daradics Arpad, Vali Chincișan, Csiki Csaba. Musicians by origin and cosmopolitans by vocation.
Their language, ideas, or expressions fed more or less (also) from this multicultural crucible, resulting in specific visual poetics. We are also interested in following how these upheavals of recent history, decanted by the ethos of the place of our community, were subtly imprinted in the practice of these influential artists.
Address: Camera K’ARTE, George Enescu street, Târgu Mureș.
