ARTIST STATEMENT

Since the age of twelve I have been intensively interested in built human environment. This is one of the reasons why I chose a specialized high school which lays emphasis on different branches of visual art. However, during my years there I have realized that I am much more interested in human made space and our position in it than in the structure of buildings. Until now this has been my main concern in painting, but I have been applying a quite specific perspective. The themes of my current paintings include alienation, unfriendly environment, the town and its indifferent dwellers, emphasized among other things by the absence of symbolical human subjects in my pictures.

     Space, according to Manuel Castells, is not some kind of photocopy of society, space is society itself. Spatial forms and processes are shaped by the general social structure. Furthermore, social processes influence space in yet other ways, transforming spatial structures and built environments inherited from earlier societies. In my creative work Castells’ analysis has served as an important starting point.

     For my “models” I choose characteristic objects which attract my attention during my coming and going. These buildings witness to our historical past and they also remind us that although time has passed, these objects, in a certain frame of reference, are static. Each and every structure of this kind is like a problem or an outcry, as if an abandoned entity was waiting to be noticed and lifted out of outdated socialist pragmatism by a society which lives only for the fleeting moment.

     According to Marc Auge certain places can at the same time be regarded as non-places. By non-places he means spaces without identity, micro-environments “relieved of the determinants” of history or politics.[1] It is a space where humans become anonymous, identital with all the others around them, being either shoppers or in transit. Non-places like this include international airports, highways, railway stations, shopping centers and petrol stations. I have extended the concept of non-place to suburban areas because there also, surrounded by these older buildings, indifferent people develop the attitude of momentary transit. Consciously or unconsciously, trapped by the visual effects of mass culture, they exclude the perceived space from their range of attention.

     At the same time, these places are very much pervaded by history. Empty, ruinous, rusty factory buildings on the periphery of the city are in fact fossils left behind by a pseudo prosperous, now bygone economy. They are similar to the red velvet seats of railway cars commuting between Budapest and its agglomeration, which testify to the taste of a one time socialist country, or rather a taste which was forced upon it. To "survive" and to process these places - in the 25th year of the post-socialist era -, I need my own techniques and methods. One of these is the art of painting.

BIOGRAPHY

Dániel BAJKÓ​
1989.01.14 ,Budapest​
bajkodani@hotmail.com, bajko.daniel@kepzo.hu​
+36 20 58 77 089​

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Studies:​
2008-2013     Hungarian University of Fine Arts- painting department​
2003-2008     Schulek Frigyes Kéttannyelvű Építőipari Műszaki SZKI,Budapest

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Masters:​
2011-2013     János KÓSA, Réka NEMERE​
2009-2011     Gábor NAGY, Ákos WECHTER​
2008-2009     Gábor NAGY, János KÓSA

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Exhibitions:​
2013

Rejected Artists, MÜSZI, Budapest
Doyens and Young Adults, REÖK Regional Art Center, Szeged
Autumn Salon, Alföldi Galéria,Hódmezővásárhely
Optima Forma, Udvarház Galéria, Veresegyház (solo)
Night of Museums, Petőfi Múzeum, Aszód

Best Of Diploma,MKE Barcsay Hall​, Budapest

UniCredit Bank Scholarship, B55, Budapest

Summer Salon, House of Arts, Gödöllő​

Empire P, ICA-D, Dunaújváros

Budapest Art Expo Friss, MűvészetMalom, Szentendre

Amadeus Competition, MKE, Barcsay Hall​, Budapest
2012​
Light purple, Kósa János’s Class Exhibition, Fészek Art Club, Budapest​
Morpheusz’s Gallery, Podmaniczky Castel, Aszód​
Attersee Klassik, 2012, Seewalchen am Attersee, Austria​
Ari S. Kupsus Salon Concert Society Competition, Ari Kupsus Gallery​, Budapest
Amadeus Competition, MKE, Barcsay Hall​, Budapest
Aranycsapat, Picasso point​, Budapest
Ludwig Competition, MKE Barcsay Hall​, Budapest
Barcsay Competition, MKE​, Budapest
2011​
After Baroque, GÖMB group, House of Arts, Gödöllő​
In “non-place”, Körönd Bookstore and Gallery, Budapest​ (solo)
POSZT, Pécs​
Summer Salon, House of Arts, Gödöllő​
Night of Museums, Gödöllő​
Amadeus Competition, MKE Barcsay Hall​, Budapest
Fehér György prize, National Theatre​, Budapest
Fehér György prize, MKE​, Budapest
2010​
A Raoul Wallenberg Association​, Budapest​
Amadeus Competiton, MKE, Barcsay Hall, Budapest

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Prizes:​
2013

Unicredit Scholarship

2012​
Körösfői-Kriesch Aladár-prize​
Ari S. Kupsus Salon Concert Society-prize​
Ari S. Kupsus Salon Concert Society-prize, Nemes László Norbert-prize​
Ari S. Kupsus Salon Concert Society-prize, Mónika Gyebrovszki-prize​
Andi Reith-prize​
Amadeus Scholarship​
Fundamenta Scholarship