Kucsora Márta

Joseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual artist and art theoretician who employs digital means to produce paintings and animations. The centrality of his oeuvre acknowledges computer generated viruses as a creative stratagem. To address the merging of the biological and virtual, he coined the term viractual with which he extensively experiments through his work. In his paintings, the computer virus surfaces as the active agent which manipulates and corrupts the information stored in the image (the host) decreasing its integrity. On the other hand, the workings of these viral entities redefine the structure of the host, introducing novelties into the image system.
Therefore their activity can be viewed as a constructive, creative process..

 

 

 

 

Peter Peri is a London based artist of Hungarian ancestry who works predominantly in the mediums of painting, sculpture and drawing. In Budapest he will present a group of abstract drawings on paper.

 

The exhibition’s title is taken from Julio Cortozar’s 1956 short story in which a visitor to a Paris zoo becomes fascinated with a tiny species of Salamander from Mexico, the Axolotl. Gazing into the creature’s eyes the visitor’s encounter becomes increasingly intense until he finds himself metamorphosed — horrifyingly ‘buried alive’ in the body of the Axolotl. He exchanges his former human life of freedom and movement for immobile observation, becoming trapped in the dark aquarium’s ‘final solitude’

 

Peter Peri is the guest artist of Budapest Art Factory’s international residency program.