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Vámos János
I, 2023
Massive Cuties Series
60 x 60 cm
mixed media: oil and acrylic on canvas
Cars have recently played an important role in my work, partly because of their representative role in pop culture, as a superficial indicator of male identity, but also because of the experience of driving, the dialogue between man and machine. As Roland Barthes said, the car as an object is in many ways inevitable in the age of speed.
"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme work of an epoch, invented with passion by unknown artists and consumed in image, if not in use, by an entire population that appropriates them as a purely magical object."
In the "Massive Cuties" series, I try to create a visual language in which the cars are at once monumental and hard-hitting, yet cute to the point of being childish.
With black oil paint, I want to convey that garage oil smell, soaked in testosterone fumes. These works critically analyze through irony the fragile and controversial nature of hypermasculinity. J. V.
About the artist
Born in 1995, Nové Zámky, Slovakia
Education:
2023 - present Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Studio of Painting IV, studio of Marek Meduna and Petr Dub
2020 - 2023 Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
Studio of Painting I, studio of Robert Šalanda
2017 - 2019 Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, evening figural drawing
2017 - 2019 Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Institute of Design, Master’s course, Studio of Martin Baláž
2013 - 2017 Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Institute of Design, Bachelor’s course, Studio of Martin Baláž
2017 - 2009 Gymnázium – Gimnázium, Štúrovo
Solo exhibitions:
2023 Destruction of the Surface,duo výstava s Michalom Fízikom, Pistoriho Palác, Bratislava, Slovensko
2022 Bouncy Castle - Synagóga, Tata, Maďarsko
2022 Cíť sa ako doma!, Faur Zsófi Gallery - PANEL Contemporary, Budapest, Slovensko
2022 Cíť sa ako doma!, Galéria Limes, Komárno, Slovensko
2022 Kipakolás / Vykladanie, Galéria Jozefa Bartu, Štúrovo, Slovensko
2020 From home to the nest, Fest;tisztít Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Nest, Bánhidai Betegszamár Galéria, Tatabánya, Hungary
2018 Another party, FUGA, Bratislava, Slovakia
Group Exhibitions:
2023 POP-UP FRESH, Galerie Dolmen, Praha, Česko
2023 FLASHBACK, Klauzál 6 Gallery, Budapest, Slovensko
2022 Intersections, Galéria Limes, Komárno, Slovensko
2021 My Place, MANYI, Budapest, Maďarsko
2021 Huddle, Magyar Műhely Galéria, Budapest, Maďarsko
2021 Otthonról Haza, Faur Zsófi Gallery, Budapest, Maďarsko
2020 Godot ART Fair, Godot Institute of Contemporary Art -Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2020 Bordering on the Boundless, Old Synagogue, Tata, Hungary
2020 Bordering on the Boundless, Limes Gallery, Komárno, Slovakia
2020 Summer selection, Flat Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
2020 Bordering on the Boundless, City art gallery, Senta, Serbia
2020 Bordering on the Boundless, Contemporary art gallery, Subotica, Serbia
2019 30 years of Hungarian art in Slovakia, Žitnoostrovské múzeum, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2019 30 years of Hungarian art in Slovakia, Gallery Bašta, Košice, Slovakia
2019 Godot ART Fair, Godot Institute of Contemporary Art -Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2019 ZiggY Art Fair, Pintér Galéria és Aukciósház, Budapest, Hungary
2019 Leave a sign, Gallery Figuratif, Košice, Slovakia
2019 Next move, UMELKA (Gallery of Slovak Union of Visual Arts), Bratislava, Slovakia
2018 Coal, Klein house, Subotica, Serbia
2016 Taszöszóma-Végletek IV., City hall, Sovata, Romania
2015 ERATO VII erotic biennale, Contemporary Hungarian Gallery, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia
2015 Végletek II., Gallery of Dobó Tihamér, Kanjiža, Serbia
Scholarships and residencies:
2023 HAB Hungarian Art and Business, residency in Budapest, HU
2022 Dél-Balatoni Kortárs Alkotóműhely, residence in Szólád, HU
2021 Kultminor, Slovak Republic Scholarship for the Development of National Minority Culture
2020 Art colony of Gallery Godot, Mezőszemere, Hungary
2017 TAKT 38 art colony, Temerin, Serbia
