Bene­‐Szabó Réka BIO.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

 

Studies:

 

2011-2013 Master Studies

Partium University of Fine Arts, Oradea - RO, graphics - visual communication

Lead Teacher: Nicolae Onucsan

 

2008-2011 University

Partium University of Fine Arts, Oradea – RO, graphics

 

2010 Study in another HEI

Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest – HU, printmaking

 

Solo exhibitions:

 

2017 Sfantu Gheorghe, Transylvanian Art Center

2017 Oradea, Partium University of Fine Arts

2016 “Natural Gestures” Kezdivasarhely, Vigadó Gallery, RO

2015  Solo Exhibition, Tein, Sfantu Gheorghe, RO

 

 

Selected Exhibitions and Art Projects:

 

2017 India Land Art Symposium, Mirror – Light – Shadow, Narrative Movements, West Bengal, Khomdara

2017 International Print Triennial Krakow, Poland

2017 Global Nomadic Art Project (Lazarea) Ro

 

2016 Transylvania Transit / Design Exhibition

2016  4th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland RO

2016 Kunsthalle - Branches / Nature Art - Variations / Exhibition, Budapest HU

2016 Design Week exhibition – Transylvanian art Center RO

2016 Zereda International Contemporary Act Camp exhibition  RO

 

2015-2016 Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Three Colors, teamwork, KOR

2015  “Give me five!” Magma Contemporary Art Space

2015  “Living Spacs” International Nature Art Camp “NapTelep” RO

2015  “Szárhegy 40”  exhibition RO

2015  Youth Line exhibition RO

2014  3th Graphic Art Biennial of Szeklerland RO

2014  5th Croatian Biennial of Illustration CRO

2014  Madach 150 fine art competition and exhibition HU

2014  Free in Lazarea (Szabadon Szárhegyen) fine art workshop RO

 

2013 Szent Matrix exhibition HU

2013 Kirakat Art Attack exhibition HU

2013 The Anatomy of Autonomy RO

2013 “Alkalmazott Víziók” exhibition

 

2010  “Europa Elrablása” Maff Metrion / international animation festival

 

2009 “Nature Art Camp” international Nature Art Camp exhibition, Noszvaj, Eger HU

 

 

Awards:

 

2014  5th Croatian Biennial of Illustration – Special Award

2014 „Madách 150“ Hungarian fine art competition, I. place - Creative Avard

2010  Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ART RESUME

 

REKA SZABO

 

My installations are taking place in nature, they are produced with natural elements, most of the times on the subject of environmental protection. Sometimes I consciounsly  prepare for a work related to a given environmental problem, otherwise I mostly create upon a spontaneous instinct that reflects an answer to a certain surrounding atmosphere.

Nature, in its own slick way, is simple. Yet, it is this simplicity that doesn’t show itself directly, rather we must guess it after appearances we can only decipher when we stripped our egos and have become humble enough.

Just when it’s not “me” and not “now” what matters, but a global dialog for planetary greater good.

Nature becomes bigger in face of a technologized world and for me becomes more clear how organic shapes, curve lines, perpetually mobile impressions are the novelty, the ones that assure space for a future population which we should care for, protect and take further.

 

 

About my digital prints:

 

“ Réka Szabó was touched by the breeze of conceptualism. In her works she is always trying to show a conception, she is never satisfied with just the spectacle. What we are seeing should not only be beautiful, but should also be significant. The boundaries between letters and image are blurred; the meaning is made from the image composed of letters and from the letters subordinated to the image. She makes graphics, manipulated photography, multi-level images, where the depth is given not only by the laws of perspective but also by the superimposition of the use of pseudo shadows. The text acts like a living body, there are times when the letters are acting straightly and disciplined and there are other times when they stumble into each other, they rush into each other forming an incomprehensible condensed mass, or what can be even scarier they fall into nothingness. Her art is mostly characterized by experimenting and by stretching the boundaries in order to find new meanings. Her work does not fall into a particular category, with the strict advertising graphic design her compositions transpose into the art sphere. She is seeking to eliminate the unnecessary information and in her visual investigations she maneuvers bare shapes.”

 

-Gizella Horváth- (art historian)