April 2013 | Art School in Budapest Art School in Budapest: April 2013

Art school in Budapest art school in English Language with NVC Nonviolent Communication courses

Art school in Budapest  art school in English Language  with NVC Nonviolent Communication courses

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

ASiB Goes to Museum


DeadSee, 2005, video

Join us to a guided tour to Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle) to see the exhibition of  Israeli artist

Sigalit Landau
MARGINES

Tursday, April 25th at 18 h 
at Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle) on Heros Squere
                                                                                               
                                                                                           All interested welcome!

     Sigalit Landau (1969) is a visual artist born in Jerusalem and living in Tel Aviv. She is a widely recognized artist with numerous international appearances, including her participation in documenta X in Kassel and her representation of Israel at the Venice Biennale on two occasions. Her videos, sculptures and installations are made with various techniques and draw on traditional symbols the water, the sand, the watermelons, the sugar, and the salt – with its simultaneously preserving and corrosive properties – featured in these artworks all convey the paradoxical nature of human existence. Circles and cyclicity are recurring motifs in Landau’s work. She poses philosophical or political questions, which are always articulated in a poetic format: in her art, the clothes tossed around in the washing machine, the falling olives, the red flesh of the watermelons bursting open from the salt in the sea become metaphors for the human condition. 
    This exhibition is Sigalit Landau’s first solo appearance in Hungary. It features the artist’s latest video works, complemented by earlier video installations. The videos entitled MASIK and Four Entered the Grove(2012) present an olive harvest performed by men, where the row of machines attached to the trees also evokes the great topic of the human exploitation of nature. In the work entitled Window, the spinning drum of a washing machine is seen, showing lifeless objects as they tumble about at the mercy of the circular motion. The noise produced by the machine is reminiscent of rhythmic pounding. The interactions and opposing forces of the living and the inanimate, the world of objects and the environment, are thus represented in Landau’s work. The circle also serves as the basic motif in the video entitled Three Man Hula. In DeadSee, shot from bird’s eye view, the artist’s naked body is seen within a gigantic spiral shape created by strung-together watermelons, reminiscent of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. The video diptychs entitled Working Title WM (2010), which portray the work of men harvesting watermelons, present– similarly to the 2012 work – a real, while also culturally loaded, situation. The shifting camera positions, the sequence of frames and the sound effects, however, attest to the power and meaning-generating force of aesthetic vision.

fee: 700Ft/ person 

Please register till April 23rd at artscholbudapest@gmail.com
   
   

Monday, April 1, 2013

Art Mondays Intensive



Mon.- Sat.
 April 7 -13, 2013 (one week workshop)

Theoretical &  practical introduction to contemporary visual arts for adults and teens above 16

Aplications will be received till April 4th, 12h !!!!! 

If you are planning to apply to an art school next year, if you are an artist and need support and guidance or if you simply feel lost in a modern art gallery and wish to broaden your understanding of arts, this is the course for you! At this course you will receive theoretical and optionally practical introduction to contemporary visual art. The aim of the course is to help you acquire the language of contemporary art and support you in becoming independent in enjoying and/or creating works of art.
     Through a series of lectures and your active engagement in open discussions, you will start to deepen your way of understanding and thinking about contemporary art, acquire an understanding of the historical changes in art through the 20th century, and receive basic skills on how to relate to art works being made in the last 50 years. On the first day you will also receive a project assignment to be worked on at home and finalised by the end of the workshop. During the whole week, your group-mates and you will receive personal guidance, which will support you in finding your “inspiration spot”, take you through the steps of making your contemporary art piece and assist you in solving practical problems that may occur when working on your project. By making your own art work as well as by witnessing your group-mates’ process and work, you will be integrating the theoretical knowledge of the lectures , deepen your knowledge about what contemporary art is about and hopefully gain more confidence to keep making your own art projects. Projects will be exhibited on the last day of the course. 

dates: Apr. 7, 8,  and 11,12 + 13th 
-  one week workshop
time: 14 -17 h 
group size: 4–8 persons 

fee: 20 000 -30 000 Ft (please offer the highest amount you can offer fromy our heart)

application: All applications will be alocated on first come firs served basis. For further information and application please contact: artschoolbudapest@gmail.com or call: +3620 467 5051  Aplications will be received till April 4th, 12h