Antroporary is an international exhibition project.
It reacts to anthropological and anthropocentric tendencies in contemporary visual artists' works.
Project includes local artists and international artists from Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia.
The idea of this project comes from the atmosphere of current events in society. It's focused on humans.
The exhibition reflects topics that directly connect to humans, humanity, and it focuses on figural portrayal.
There's a broad spectrum of approaches to visual art. We can see paintings, sculptures, space installations, video art, and soundtracks.
All of these refer to the body, humanity, and humans in one way or another.
This exhibition's theme goes from banal topics, irony to pseudo archeology, pseudo mythology and
touches upon more severe issues like inclusion of marginalized groups, human impact on the environment, and our planet's situation today.
The exhibition is like a spatial pastiche. It doesn't have a beginning nor an end.
I've tried to create an environment that suppresses traditional institutional categories.
It's not like every room has it's own name. All of the themes and art pieces influence each other.
Even then, we're able to follow a few themes that I picked. They come from ideas of separate art pieces. There are three main sections.
The first one is a new new figuration that focuses on actualized form in contemporary painting and sculpture.
It suppresses the portrayal of a perfect human body. It shows deconstructions of the body, attempts to leave the ideal beauty.
The second section is called Identity, which focuses on self-identification, the authentic "me."
Archeological aesthetics play a large role in various pieces.
That naturally comes from the reaction to our lives' impermanence and what remains after we're gone.
The third section is called Body politics. It connects art pieces that are more of a political commentary of the current situation in society.
They are pieces that react to inclusion of people with Down syndrome, queer minorities. Some topics are about religion.
Finally, some art pieces respond to our choices and consequences that influence our planet's state.