Bukta Imre: Erzsi, Piri, Sári, Mariska, Rozáli, Ella, Bella, Juci, Karolina, gyertek vacsorázni!

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A Godot Galéria szeretettel meghívja Önt

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The Godot Gallery cordially invites you.

Imre Bukta

Erzsi, Piri, Sári, Mariska, Rozáli, Ella, Bella, Juci, Karolina, come over for dinner!

at the opening of the exhibition titled …

On 2007 March 28, at 20 o'clock.

In the cupboard

Imre Bukta’s art focuses on rural life, agriculture and ordinary peasant chores. He laments the sociographic character with irony, grotesque detail and absurdities. In the middle of the 70s he forged a distinctive style that has since become a trademark – his so‑called agricultural art. The Godot Gallery is now showing his latest works. The main hall contains ten oil paintings – one of which is an appliqué – and the smaller room displays works executed in mixed media.

I am grateful for every technical possibility. Once my mentor, János Pataki, told me not to follow the graphic industry, to return to the village, and that I would find plenty there—just lean into it. And he was right! The point is that his opportunistic use of everything encouraged me, essentially, to juggle several things at once. This has been the case from the very start, because beyond the studio’s cosy ambience where I liked to doodle, I was already taking photographs and setting up action shots in the 70s. Although the two genres are far apart, I bridged this gap with other styles and I still do that to this day. I enjoy employing different tools, so I don’t treat, for example, video projection as a magical trick, and it never dazzles me; I can fully utilise it.

Turkáló

In fact I can’t attend to everything; art has so many paths. And that’s exactly where we run into a snag: it’s not the medium that matters, but what it’s about and what the work itself is. I judge a good piece mainly by whether it hits me, whether it reaches me in any way. It doesn’t matter what technique it was made with—only after that do I try to interpret it. I have this feeling about works where I feel nothing, and I have to read something to understand what it’s actually about.

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Countryside couple

Bukta Imre has been working in the visual arts since the early 70s. He is a member of the Vajda Lajos Studio Association, the MAMÜ Society, and from 1996 has been part of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. Awards and recognitions: the Munkácsy Mihály Award (1987), the Honoured Artist (1997), and he has twice represented our country at the Venice Biennale Hungarian Pavilion (1988, 1999). His creative activity is very diverse, ranging from traditional graphic work to mixed‑media drawings and oil paintings, and culminating in pieces made with corn, match‑sticks, tiles and fur. A public statue can be found in his native village of Mezőszemerék. Another distinctive genre of his work is installation; his performance activity is internationally renowned and significant.

Baromfiudvar

The exhibition can be viewed from Tuesday to Friday from 10 to 18 until 21, and on Saturday between 10 and 13.

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