Low-Cost Carrier
Vámos János
Low-Cost Carrier, 2023
150 x 180 cm
acrylic on canvas
The painting was created during a residency in Budapest at the Hungarian Art and Business institution.
“I am fascinated by the religious nature of consumer society. Certain religious motifs have been replaced by things that are more consumerist attitudes. It is interesting that as people have become accustomed to consumerism, the objects that belong to people have become almost part of their identity. The car is a good example of this. It is essentially a symbol of freedom and free movement. The context in which we exist is the age of information, movement, and speed. The car is the subject of this movement and speed. Your car represents you, but to a certain extent you also represent your car, because in order to have a car, you have to sacrifice some of your life. It serves you, but you also serve it. You earn what you will later spend on the car. Despite this, in some way it gives us so much, whether emotionally or practically, that people accept that it is associated with this sacrifice. I try to portray cars as entities, I am interested in the relationship between man and object. As an "extended self." When you get into a car, you are part of the machine, you control what surrounds you with your physical movement, and if I take transportation as a context, you and the car are one entity.”
Part of an interview for Hungarian Art and Business about a new series. 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
