Bukta Imre: Apám romantikája eladó 2017. március 24 - április 29. Godot Galéria

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Delelő

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Delelő

160×200, oil, canvas, 2017

The Godot Gallery cordially invites you.

Imre Bukta

My father's romance is up for sale.

on the exhibition titled …

Opening: on 2017 March 24, from 17 to 21 o’clock.

Open from Tuesday to Friday between 9 and 14, and on Saturday between 10 and 13, until April 29.

Romanticism for sale

40 × 54, watercolour, tempera, graphite, on paper, 2016

Bukta Imre does no more than stroll through a village, observe and depict. The Hungarian countryside’s only authentic visual chronicler has now brought his own chickens to the Godot Gallery, so that we can see whether they are laying bio‑eggs in Budapest or dealing with rented‑house panel elements? The chickens have decided that exhaust fumes are better, or perhaps the ones from bottle‑burning, good village crumb? We can observe whether the chickens are bio‑robots functioning as egg machines, or simply two‑legged sentient beings like we humans? Perhaps 3D walking art objects? Mashed chicken breasts, raw, squeaking fried chicken drumsticks?

At the latest exhibition in Godot Gallery, Imre Bukta shows the village clerk blocked by corn, his parents’ house – a house that can only be sold together with his father’s romance, Misi, who gazes into a punctured bicycle tyre’s interior the way Pityu watches in the cinema. You see a street for sale, a ragged rug for sale, and a view for sale of the future. Whether he depicts it in flat painting, installation or video, every work is a unique landscape and soul‑radiograph of the Hungarian countryside.

Misi With a Holey Gum

90 × 120, oil, canvas, 2017

Bukta Imre keeps well far from social criticism and from reacting to contemporary politics, even shivering at the thought of it. For him it matters more that Mrs Lenke’s land is fertilised in due time. It is also important that the ditch clears the early‑spring snowmelt. If that appeals to you, it is part of his artistic programme. Anyone who views the exhibition will not be disappointed. Bukta Imre’s art is not a frozen style; we encounter a constantly searching, at the same time profoundly self‑reflective visual artist.

Moreover, at the opening guests can sample the corn‑meal‑baked gingerbread, a gift from the ladies of the harvest to the esteemed visitors.

Coal Shovelling Romance for Sale

90 × 120, oil, canvas, 2016

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