László Csáki: Erased Drawings
László Csáki: Erased Drawings
When drawing white chalk lines on a blackboard, fine dust descends delicately all around. The drawings are visible only for a short time – eventually, they need to be erased so that they can give way to other scenes and events. Sketches. Phases. Notes. The intermissions in between the main artworks. This is what life is composed of: tiny yet not insignificant trifles.
László Csáki is a Béla Balázs Award-winning documentary and animation film director and artist, whose primary medium is the moving image. His photo series titled Erased Drawings, created between 2015 and 2017, consists of analogue, black-and-white enlargements, which document the chalk drawings created during the breaks of the animation process. The drawings resemble almost photographic level snapshots, private photo subjects, patterns of everyday experience: weekends, gardening tools, the familiar objects piled up in the ever-under-construction weekend cottages, the sausage from the grocery store at the corner. But the chalkboard also carries the hard and soft news known from television and radio, childhood, handmade musical instruments of known musicians, or soccer, which, wherever played, is inseparable from beer and snacks.
The Erased Drawings are works existing only in photographic form, presenting a life philosophy and a kind of social criticism based on ordinary events. Although the subjects may seem to be insignificant, auxiliary events, due to their familiarity they reflect us, as well as our post-Socialist reality. The image captions help the interpretation, part of which is that these are “uneventful but artistically important” moments.
(Judit Gellér, curator)
Opening on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 7:00pm
Opening remarks by Gábor Csőre Jászai Mari Prize-winning actor
Open to the public: 2017.05.10. – 06.12.
Entrance is free.
László Csáki, a Béla Balázs Award-winning documentary and animation film director and artist. He was born in Mosonmagyaróvár in 1977. He received his master’s degree in media design from the Department of Visual Communication of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2002; he currently pursues DLA studies at the same institution. He has worked in arts education since 2003, at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, at the Krea Art School, and the Budapest Metropolitan University. He is a member of the Studio of Young Artists Association, Budapest. His work has been awarded by numerous awards (the grand prize and the prize of film critics at the 11th Animations Film Festival in Kecskemét; the 41st Hungarian Film Week, Documentary category, Ember Judit Prize, split grand prize; the 51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, prize of the Hamburg Short Film Agency; 2008 Studio of Young Artists prize; Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ) film critics prize for the director of the best short film) and scholarships (Gyula Derkovits Art Scholarship, National Cultural Foundation – creative grant). He has participated in solo and group exhibitions both in Hungary and abroad, since 2001. His works may be found in private and public collections as well.