Don’t miss the grand opening of the G13 Gallery and the opportunity to see them blending the past and the present through art. They will be showing works by Hungarian artists that were popular in the 1920’s and 1930’s, like Martin Munkácsi or the world-famous André Kertész.
For years, artists have been presenting their perspectives of “Woman.” Whether a simple black and white photograph or a more elaborate painting, artists have used light, colors, angles and other aesthetic approaches to accent the curves, shapes and contrasts of a woman’s body.
For their opening exhibition, Woman Drawn with Light, the G13 Gallery will display a collection of pictures embodying “woman”, presented through the eyes of artists spanning a period of ninety years. Whether treating the female form as an object of fine art, a subject of desire or an intricate landscape, most male photographers throughout history have, at one time, produced their own interpretation of the woman.
The inventive exhibition will include works by Martin Munkácsi who uses light and shade to glamorize “woman” in his black and white shots and André Kertész who became world-famous for his distorted nudes and who pushes the technical limits of the camera to provide vision-like compositions. In the same spirit, the “shift” portraits taken by György Tóth with several expositions constitute a new articulation of nude photography, becoming the crystallized visions of memory of a dream. The exhibition will also feature works by Péter Puklus, István Lábady and Tamás Dobos.
This exhibition takes the common stigmatization of “woman” from fashion and advertising photos and turns it into a historical perspective filled with respect and admiration. It makes the audience focus on the three-dimensional existence of woman’s body, the plasticity of its form and how it is questioned, expressed or reinterpreted in relation to distortion, shift, illumination or posing.
While appreciating the artistic recreations, audiences might also look into the photo to interpret what is behind it. Part of the enjoyment of the collection will come from the viewer’s imagination and interpretation. How did the artist want to portray his inspiration? What was this woman thinking and feeling at the time the portrait was taken? The pieces incorporated into Woman Drawn with Light are true photo essays that reveal innovative ways of looking at “woman”, through your own eyes as well as through the eyes of the artists.
Dates: June 5-July 13
Place: G13 Gallery
1075 Budapest, Király u. 13. (Gozsdu udvar)
Tel.: +36.1.878.1309
www.g13.hu
Place: G13 Gallery
1075 Budapest, Király u. 13. (Gozsdu udvar)
Tel.: +36.1.878.1309
www.g13.hu
