László CSÁKI: ERASED DRAWINGS 3.0
Opening: 19 June, Wednesday 3:00 pm, Kápolna Gallery
Opening speech by: J. A. Tillmann philosopher, essay-writer, university professor
Open on weekdays between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm.
On 22 June, the Night of Museums, the exhibition will be open until midnight.
Fine chalk powder falls, as white lines are being drawn on the blackboard. The drawings are only visible for a short time; later, they have to be erased to give room for new scenes and events. Sketches. Frames. Notes. Pauses between major works. Life is made up from these small, yet important details.
Balázs Béla Award-winner, documentary, animation film director and fine artist László Csáki uses motion picture as primary media. Made between 2015 and 2019, Letörölt rajzok | Erased Drawings is a photo series of black and white enlargements, documenting chalk drawings made in the pauses between the works of animation. The drawings are nearly similar to photographic snapshots, the subjects of private photos and experiences captured from everyday life: weekends; tools of garden work; objects always waiting to be repaired – piled up in the weekend house as “they might come in handy someday” – and the bar of salami from the local store. However, public events and exciting news from the radio and television are also drawn on the board; the first makeshift instruments of famous musicians from their childhood; and, of course, football, always inseparable from beer and sunflower seeds – no matter where it takes place.
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| László Csáki: The Secret Relation of Beer and Soccer (A sör és a foci titkos kapcsolata) |
László Csáki: I Know a Shortcut! (Tudok egy rövidebb utat!) |
László Csáki: The First Guitar of András Lovasi (Lovasi András első gitárja) |
Letörölt rajzok | Erased Drawings are a series of works which exist only in the form of photographs, depicting a view of life based on everyday events; while they express some sort of social criticism. Although these subjects may seem insignificant, we can recognize both ourselves and our post-socialist reality, due to the familiarity of these scenes. The titles help the interpretation of the images, allowing us to emphasize: these are “uneventful, but artistically important” moments.
(Judit Gellér curator)
László Csáki is a documentary and animation film director, fine artist, winner of the Balázs Béla Award. He was born in Mosonmagyaróvár, 1977. He obtained his master’s degree in 2002, in the Moholy-Nagy University of Art (MOME) on media design, currently pursuing his DLA studies at the same faculty. Since 2003, he is participating in art education: besides MOME, he also teaches in Krea Art School and Budapest Metropolitan University. He is a member of the Association of Young Fine Artists. His works were awarded with several prizes. My Name is Boffer Bings won the Grand Prix of the 11th KAFF; Tincity won Ember Judit Award for Best Documentary on the 41th Hungarian Filmweek. Wasps, Geese, Pear-tree was awarded on the 51th Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Between 2001 and 2003, he won the Derkovits Gyula Fine Art Scholarship. Since 2001, he regularly exhibits in solo and group exhibitions, both in Hungary and internationally. His works are present in both private and public collections.
