"Special Bus Service" Exhibition
a chance to take a trip to the world of contemporary creativity and the naive arts
Parish Gallery, Vigántpetend
June 26 - August 7, 2005
Exhibition organised by
Emese Joó and Mariann Tóth
Exhibition images
Workshop images
Knowledge
Sponsors:
Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma
Nemzeti Kulturális Alapprogram
Eastron Kft. (Budapest)
Cifa Kft. (Kaposvár)
Trade' 90 Kft. (Budapest)
EVM Rt. (Budapest)
MAG Kortárs Művészeti Galéria (Budapest)
DLH Autóklinika Kft. (Remeteszőlős)
Karak-tér Grafikai Stúdió és Nyomda (Budapest)
"SPECIAL BUS SERVICE" Exhibition
An ideal opportunity to go for a ride in the world of artistic creativity and naive arts
In the framework of Contemporary Artistic Creativity, a program launched by the European Folklore Institute, a service is run to the field of natural, intuitive and playful artistic creativity free from restrictions of all kinds. This second exhibition is open to the public in The Valley of Arts, where it can be seen and, more importantly, touched at the vicarage in Vigántpetend from 26th June - 7th August.
Just hold on, please! During this time, the bus stop, the rooms and the garden of the Gallery are filled with pictures, statues, dresses, foods and lives that could never be seen before. Here nothing is really what it looks for the first sight, although they look all too familiar. Iron chocolate, brick rolls and stone sausages are available at the grocer's. Small trains run along the crochet work table among cork emperors, wall hangings and mannequins. On entering the next room, a whole world of Biotech and Bionut meets the eye. Poppy seed rabbits and sheep, wooden peg statues, a range of life scenes "drawn" by typewriter, folk songs in flower petals, gingerbread relief, and pictures sewn and dyed are all on display here. In a separate room, angels, saints, The Last Supper and the stations of the Cross await the visitor. In the garden iron wedding guests are gazing at the flock of cranes taking flight and leaving an iron egg behind in their nest. The chairs are not real chairs and the programme is engraved on the TV screen.
The atmosphere and your impressions are recorded for posterity on the pages of the visitors' book blowing in the wind. Passengers create their own bus passes and are welcome to join the workshops where they can choose from activities like soap sculpture, typewriting, and wooden peg sculpture, and are free to tinker with cork and tine foil during the festival: only on our special bus service.
Guide: Emese Joó (European Folklore Institute)
Visitors are provided with survival kits.
Exhibiting artists:
László Bakó
Attila Balaskó and Emma Oroszi
Emil Böröcz
László Dohos
Nándor Donauer
János Hermann
Juha Vanhanen
Éva Magyarósi
Students of the Forestry Department of the Western Hungarian University
Judit Pintérné Stefkovits
Bori Rutkai
Réka Somogyi
András Szécsi
Noémi szeredi Ambrus
Gábor Szigeti and Éva Szigetiné Ferenczy
Márta Tari
Virág Tóth
Gizella Török
Tünde Tüskés
Fanni Ungváry
István Velok
Károly Zalai
András Zsuffa
"SPECIAL BUS SERVICE" workshops:
Daily from 11:00 till 13:00 and from 15:00 till 19:00
During the time of the festival in the halls and garden of the exhibition
children and adults are offered a chance to take part in a different form of
creative activity every day. Passengers of the Special Bus Service can create
their own bus pass, draw pictures on the typewriter, carve sculptures out of
soap or clothes pegs, create a model table out of silver foil, make spiders out
of corks, weave a spider's web and write their lines into the wind-blown
visitors' book.
Exhibition guide and workshop master: Emese Joó and Mariann Tóth
Emese Joó:
"Special Bus Service" - Exhibition and Workshop at the Valley of Arts
Our institute has launched a Contemporary Artistic Creativity Programme in 2004. Within its frames we examine and elaborate appearences of non-mainstream artistic aspirations of Hungarian-speaking communities.
The second nationwide exhibition was organized within the frames of "The Valley of Arts" events from 26, June till the 7, August, 2005. The scene of the exhibition were presented by the spaceous rooms and the friendly yards of the Parish Gallery at Vigántpetend. The opening ceremony of the exhibition took place on the Day of the Village on the 26th of June, 2005. It was inaugurated by the Mayor, Marton Istvánné.
The "Special Bus Service" exhibition has displayed the works of 25 contributors. At the entrance of the gallery the visitors were welcome by a group of sculptures titled "The Wedding Crowd" of László Bakó. In the yards you could have a rest on the chair-sculptures of Éva Magyarósi. There, also, was exhibited the work of a guest artist from Finland. The construction of Juha Vanhanen, a group of cranes made of ploughshares, was displayed under the title "Cranes on Stakes". During the exhibition it was completed by the creation of András Szécsi, titled "Iron Egg". In the three, large rooms of the exhibition we have organized the works into three thematic categories. In the first we rendered Biblically inspired works. Here we displayed brass punctures of András Zsuffa, flower-petal pictures of Judit Pintérné Stefkovics, gingerbread reliefs of Márta Tari, straw pictures of Tünde Tüskés, plastic art, made of rush, by Gizella Török, textile pictures of Noémi szeredi Ambrus and a sculpture of John Paul II, made by László Bakó. In the room of toys we have collected and displayed the dressed manequin of Virág Tóth, Bori Rutkai and Emma Oroszi, pictures painted by Bori Rutkai, her surface relief made of crochet-work, and her table of chess made of colorful nail polish. Also, the Bio-Walnut Composition of Nándor Donauer, core-carvings of János Hermann, crop dolls and toys of Gábor Szigeti and his wife, carved tweezers, wooden stirrers and funny season tickets by Fanni Ungváry. In the story room, we exhibited corkwood reliefs of Károly Zalai, the silk paintings of Réka Somogyi, iron and stone-made food by László Dohos and László Bakó, felt-made gate and folk-story characters by
Attila Balaskó and wooden tweezer fantasies prepaired by students of the Forestry Department of the Western Hungarian University and their professor, D. Kinga Gerencsér. In the corridor were displayed Noémi szeredi Ambrus's peculiar textile pictures, carved woodsticks of Emil Böröcz and typewritten graphic art of István Velok.
The exhibition was open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day. During its six weeks it has received 15.175 visitors altogether.
Visitors to the exhibition were encouraged to participate in creative workshops connected to the exhibition. During the ten days over 500 curious visitors have tested their manual skills, creativity and their sense of art. In the frame of the workshops, special season tickets were created for the "Special Bus Service" special "ride". Participants were welcome to try making typewritten graphic pictures, sculpturing soap and wooden tweezers, making cogwebs and animal figures. A special effect of the exhibition was the windblown visitors' book: they placed their remarks and drawings on nylon folio-ribbons in the garden of the vicarage.
