Are you interested in art? Do you want to learn something about contemporary art? The lecture series with the artists and curators themselves is the perfect opportunity to take a peek under the hood of the art world, talk directly with the artists about their own work and spend an evening in a pleasant environment. There is no limit to the creativity of asking questions, because it is thanks to the audience's attention that works of art live the life they deserve.
The lecture series on contemporary artists and curators will feature one of the exhibiting artists of the current exhibition Signal IV: The Eighties, Daniel Balabán.
Daniel Balabán (*1957), asks existential questions, explores the self and touches on faith in his work. He asks whether it makes sense to be a painter, why he is here, and whether there is anyone to (u)believe in. And does the existence of Christ even matter in order to believe in what one really wants? From the above, the content of Daniel Balabán's paintings emerges. Faith, or rather the Christian tradition, experiences a genesis in Balabán's paintings. The beginnings of his concentrated work from the second half of the 1980s onwards have their centre of gravity in a reduced form that interprets
the fundamental themes of faith through a distinctive hyperbole, which in the following ten years shifts to a position of sensitive and sophisticated irony. An important aspect of the author's work in recent years is the seemingly inconspicuous, yet, especially against the thematic background, remarkable "nonpatriarchal" tendency. We can understandably refer to Balabán's fascinating family evangelical tradition. On the other hand, his egalitarian creative approach should be highlighted. The woman is not just a source of flat fascination and a profane extension of the simple symbol of the mother. The aforementioned delicacy and sensitivity in the artist's paintings is essentially a permanent aspect of the materialization of this principle.
Programme subject to change.
