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ÁRPÁd dARAdICS

Lives and works in Budapest, Hungary

SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.gportal.hu/daradicsarpad

PRIzE OF ExCELLENCE / AwARD OF DISTINCTION. meDIaL 1. art BIeN-
NIaL. ONLINE gLOBAL ART BIENNIAL [2007] artaDDICtION.Net

“Objects, people, and ideas do not change over time, what
changes is the way we see, observe, and understand them”,
believes Arpad Daradics. The artist works with drawing,
computer, photography, painting, sculpture and site works
also. His graphics fascinate men, and women trough their
aggressive irony, and thought-provoking ideas. The artist
uses old photographs from the past two centuries. The
designs of bright paint on darker backgrounds create
themes by shocking the viewer with the intensity of
emotions it radiates. Daradics’s works are full of irony
that strongly judges past problems and their solutions,
yet unmasks our false inner models of the past. Daradics
became known in 2002 with his Red Stories. He breaks up
the minimalist composition of pictures with very typical
motives of his works, and colors that leave the viewer
wondering. The extreme combination of pictures of old
habits and mentality, with designs of modern way of
thinking and perception, brings a different understanding
to every individual. For example the innocent image of Red
lambs is an ironical self-reflection of our intolerance the
peaceful violence and a reminder of something about which
we should not speak. The out speaking of his pictures are
surprising, only the mild deviations in their shapes suggest
that we are dealing with non-reality within our artificial
world. He is an author with a sharp ironical gaze, unmasking
without sentiment, our hypocritical consciousness, which
excludes the unpleasant and idealizes our own false inner
models. The Red nose, the Speaker or the Big Soup titled
works can be perceived as an irony of power icons and
social idols. Daradics is also a spontaneous and sensitive
artist, and his subversive humor exposes us to a process pf
purging. The spontaneous graphics seem to be reminders
of things, thoughts, and ideas that might be unacceptable
to be spoken of. Makes us aware that things do not change
that much; it is only we who reassess our viewpoints and
change the lenses of our seeing. The absurdity of his images
rescues reality where, under the sediment of conventions,
it slips away.

 PaGaN tImes serIes, 2004 INSTALLATION ART (MATERIAL
INTERvENTION : SIMULATED LEATHER), 23x23 FT. / 700x700 CM.
 memOrY stILL 24, 2006 NEw MEDIA, C-PRINT 78x31 IN. / 200x80 CM.
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