ARTIST PROFILE

Péter Szabó

  • Romania (b. 1978 in Targu-mures)
  • Currently in Budapest, Hungary.
  • Analytical interest and critical reflection on everyday reality, documentary character, larger historical view, recycling working method.
Peoples Performativity - 2012 December

Peoples Performativity - 2012 December

  • 2014
  • Pencil, Colored Pencil, Graphite Pencil on Paper
  • 270 x 250 cm
  • __ongoing project, series of drawings, video and publication

  • In my analysis not the recently taken political decisions or their impact on society is in my focus, rather the reaction of people to this well functioning machinery. These actions are organized street demonstrations, full of creative, strategic ideas.

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    Peoples Performativity | 2014

The project is using like starting-point the representation method of the scandalous paintings commissioned for the New Hungarian Constitution (2011. November) by the Government. I try to show the events of recent past with the same method.