Komixxx
Project @ Budapest
Jan Chlup
(cz), Juliána Chomová (cz), Pavel Praľák (cz), Haránt Artúr (hu), Stark Attila
(hu), Szabó Levente (hu)
Opening: 12
September 2013, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.
Official
afterparty at Fogasház, from 10 p.m. (http://fogashaz.hu)
On view: 13
September – 4 October 2013
Komixxx
project was launched in 2011 as a series of exhibitions in Brno set in cafes,
clubs and public spaces. The basic aim of the project is to show the works of
contemporary comics artists to the public. It is an atypical large-format
exhibition created directly on the walls of the exhibition space. They
cooperate with „classic” comics drawers as well as artists from other fields of
art (e.g. conceptual artists, street artists, graphic designers and new media
artists).
This year
the project crossed the country’s borders and came to Hungary. Three Czech and
Hungarian artist will present their works in the kArton gallery. They will
„traditionally” bring their own works, but as a common project will paint
together, on the spot in the gallery’s space.
http://komixxx.cz
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Komixxx
Jan Chlup
studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Currently he is working on
multiple series, which are mutually related. The formal base of these series is
the phased view, which always covers more than the natural radius of the human
eye. With the enlarging of this idea a new cognitive space emerges and allows
us to explore the relationship between time, visible space and content. Each
series differs in the appearance which is determined by the topic and focus of
the series. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRkzRMa2ukY ). His work is strongly influenced
by video work and is probably driven by obsessive urge to capture everything
that he has ever seen or experienced. http://chlupjan.blogspot.hu/
Juliána
Chomová was born in Koąice and graduated at V©VU in Bratislava. She now lives
in Prague, where she continues her master studies of illustration at V©UP. She
is the member of an independent creative group, KudlaWerkstatt, (http://www.kudlawerkstatt.tumblr.com ) that
focuses on alternative printing activities. She experiments with various medias
and techniques, from pastiche through stencil, screen print and installations
to short animations. She has also been a publisher for several years (http://www.kudlapress.tumblr.com ). Juliána started working on comics a few
years ago, which she embraced and continues to work on to this day. Besides
comics, she also illustrates various books and articles in magazines. http://www.julianachomova.tumblr.com
Pavel
Praľák (Pavel Magda) has studied performance, intermedia and body design at
FAVU. At that time, in his opinion, the most interesting work he did was either
one-man performances in the city and in the outdoors or somehow connected to
music or video. At FAVU he founded and conducted an amateur choir (http://www.galeriemagda.cz/sbor/). Nowadays, he spends most of his time in his
profession - ie. programming - and works
in the 3D studio of FAVU and runs courses of 3D optical digitalisation for his
students. Beside his work he devotes himself to music, recently mainly gong. He
is a raw-vegan and wants to switch to prana. http://www.galeriemagda.cz/magda/
Artúr
Haránt graduated from Nyíregyháza College in 2006. He has coloured comics like
Pinkhell anthology and now the Dark Age series. He illustrates Zoltan Jeney's
Rév Fülöp books. He’s one of the editors of Direkt
Fanzine. He has won several contests like the 1st prize for the Ministry of
National Defence competition with The
Package. In 2012 he was awarded Alfabéta prize for his Jazz comics, which was based on Peter Arva-Szabo's poem. That's why
he was asked to make the poster of 9th Budapest International Comics Festival.
He likes visualising mainly the nature of things not their external
appearances. http://www.flickr.com/photos/s9txe/
Attila Stark
is a graphic designer, painter, member of the 1000% group. He loves monkeys,
grimaces and movements, air and crowdedness, and the reverse of everything. His
visual world is defined by the city life, the symbols of subculture and his deliberately
misdrawn, neo-primitive figures. The intertwining of expressive gestures and
graphic elements form his pictures, which, completed with Hungarian and foreign
language comments and notes become funny, ironic and self-reflective works. He
designs posters for Roham bar, festivals and bands, decorates pubs, paints on
walls. He is the creator of Kulo City, an important product of „chaos
aesthetics” and alternative comics, the
imprint of the turn of the century Budapest, with all its parties, exhilaration
and lethargy. http://kulocity.com
Levente
Szabó finished his studies as a graphic designer, worked as a concept artist,
published some award winning comics and currently earns a living as an
illustrator. While he envies other artists who spend years in only one field or
style, he believes that life changes you more often and it should be mirrored
in the works as well. This, or he just gets bored too quickly to do the same
thing over and over. But no matter what he's doing, his style is focusing on
the drawing skill and the playful set of positive-negative spaces. But his
greatest achievement is his outstanding carrot pie. It's really good. http://www.briskgraphics.com/
Supported by: International Visegrad Fund