04.03.11
Andrea Bátorfi: Unfolding
Unfolding is the latest exhibition from Hungarian visual artist Andrea Bátorfi, launching at Hoopers Gallery in Clerkenwell on 3rd June 2011.
A series of 17 metre-squared photographic artworks displayed using light boxes, diasecs and video, the Unfolding collection aims to reflect the multifaceted nature of reality through the art of photography. Having experienced huge success at its premiere in Budapest, Unfolding embarks on an international tour in 2011 to four countries including the UK and Japan. An experienced art photographer, Bátorfi has exhibited extensively over the past ten years in Hungary, Milan, Finland, Poland and the UK.
Part of the recent European New-Romantic movement and inspired by Jung's psychology of the unconscious, Andrea Bátorfi’s ambitious artworks expose the intricate and unseen multiple layers hidden within objects found in the natural world. Playing on our concept of reality and perception, these photographic artworks step out of the generic framework of the two-dimensional still photograph inviting the viewer on a sensual and mediatative journey that offers a complex spiritual vision.
The starting point for each image is an element taken from the natural world, such as stark winter branches or light reflected on water. A number of images of the subject are then taken using multiple exposure settings, before being mirrored, cut and layered over one another to expose unseen layers of light and dark formations. The mirrored effect of the final image gives a sense of a world unfolding from a central focus, revealing a thousand tiny contrasts between light and dark that were previously invisible to the human eye.
Andrea Bátorfi: Biography
Andrea Bátorfi was born in 1967 in Budapest, Hungary where she continues to live with her husband and family. At the age of 33 she discovered an old camera belonging to her father and started to experiment with it while walking in the woods near her home. Creating photographic images is a meditative process for Bátorfi where she chooses a subject from nature in order to reveal its many unseen layers to the human eye. Before turning to art photography, Bátorfi was an art historian and art workshop leader, advocating the power of art for its meditative and life enriching properties.
Bátorfi is an emerging contemporary artist in the field of abstract art photography. She is greatly inspired by the Hungarian Master Photographers (André Kertész, Brassai, Moholy-Nagy, Lucien Hervé) as well as the Japanese tradition of contemplation and the teachings of Eckhart Tolle. Bátorfi is part of the New-Romantic movement of female artists from Europe, who draw inspiration from a spiritual kinship with the natural environment.
3 June – 8 July 2011
HOOPERS GALLERY, 15 CLERKENWELL CLOSE, LONDON, EC1R 0AA T: +44 20 7490 3907
www.hoopersgallery.co.uk
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