A kiállítás ingyenesen megtekinthető:
2020. július 16. – 2020. augusztus 30.
Hétfőtől szombatig 8 és 19 óra között.
Ünnepnapokon zárva.
Capa Központ – 8F Galéria
Kurátor: Mucsi Emese
A járványhelyzet miatt a megnyitón javasoljuk a maszk viselését és a kézfertőtlenítő használatát.
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MEOW!
“If a single image were to illustrate the essence of the 21st-century billow of digital images undulating through the channels of the World Wide Web, it would certainly be a cat photo. Despite being disputed by dog lovers to this day, the quasi-official mascot of the Internet has become the mysterious, self-contained, plushy-soft kitty cat. Beside the animal’s obvious beauty and sweetness, Felis catus owes its immeasurable popularity in contemporary visual culture to features such as its human facial expression, glamorous intelligence, relentless curiosity, unaffected humor, constant unpredictability, and aristocratic nature. The multiple layers of meaning related to the cat are constantly accruing since its domestication. Taming the cat was legendarily long, and in the millennia that have passed since its beginning, the feline companion of man has become a complex animal symbol – it is a playful, candid, and childlike creature; the archetype of tranquility; it is the night itself, the animal of esoteric knowledge; the epitome of acumen; a symbol of femininity; an icon of lust. Considering all this, the cat photo genre seems to be predestined to popularity. The MEOW! exhibition features a tiny segment of the world’s ever-expanding archive of kitten images. The collection of photos from nine contemporary Hungarian artists (photojournalists, photographers, artists) are accompanied by their short personal anecdotes about feline-human and human-human relations, aspects of image theory, sociological observations, superstitions, obsessions, eyes, and whiskers.” (Emese Mucsi, curator)
Artists: András Bánkuti, Szabolcs Barakonyi, Andrea Gáldi Vinkó, Gábor Gerhes, András D. Hajdú, Máli Fanni, Róbert Szabó Benke, Péter Szarka, Éva Szombat
Visiting is free of charge
July 16 – August 30, 2020
Monday – Saturday 8am – 7pm
Closed on public holidays.
Capa Center – 8F Gallery
Curator: Emese Mucsi