VANISHING POINT
2024. 07. 17.
2024. 07. 17.
HEART & CHERRY and BUBU Arts are pleased to present the exhibition featuring two artists, Judit Kis and Josef Kristofoletti, who have a long history of collaboration with both arts organisations.
A regular participant in HEART & CHERRY exhibitions, Judit Kis collaborated with Limited Editions in 2021, producing two series of silkscreen prints with the project. In 2022, she collaborated with BUBU Arts in an exhibition at the American Hungarian Library in New York City. Josef Kristofoletti is a current fellow of the BUBU Artist Residencies From Budapest to Buffalo program. This exhibition is organised on the occasion of this residency programme.
They are both included in YOUHU, The New Generation of Hungarian Contemporary Art (ed.: Gábor Rieder & Zita Sárvári), an album about 42 contemporary Hungarian artists.
In her wall installation, Judit Kis is presenting her new brick sculptures engraved with symbols of connection, wholeness and togetherness. In contrast with her earlier pieces centered around specific words and concepts, she aims to move towards more universal expressions that transcend the languages of dominant cultures. For the creation of these new brick pairs, Kis drew upon her experiences related to the integration process of grief, separation anxiety and the desire for connection and unity. The wall installation is complemented by a curtain featuring reflective texts that symbolize the thin cell membrane located in the womb between twin babies. This floating piece reflects on her recent discovery and research on the psychological signs of a vanishing twin syndrome.
The site-specific murals of Hungarian-American artist Josef Kristofoletti transfigure urban architecture into ambitious, contemporary works of art. Spanning multi-level buildings in cities, towns and iconic locations across the globe, they address the natural world, science, technology and space. Kristofoletti’s focus on public art invites collective encounters which aim to promote identity and connection to place. He candidly states that “murals are a way to take architectural space and give it another kind of life, or another form”.
His paintings started as a preliminary study for the large-scale works. When he started working with the dots, the goal was to develop the visuals for the murals. His pointillism and constructivism began to take hold as a painting at the same time, and the artist started to see an opportunity in the medium. The representation of colours and light are not only about our ability to see, and how we perceive things (from certain perspectives), but the paintings give the sense of digital, low-resolution images to reflect with analogue techniques to the digital noise surround us.
