Emese Bacs

My works are representations, reconstructions of people living on the periphery of society made of things thrown away and a reflection on certain spiritual, mental anomalies beyond the signs of today’s existential crisis (e. g. everybody on the subway is fiddling constantly with his mobile phone): the increasing alienation and atomization of consumer society (a sombre, obsessive worshipping of high-tech instead of conversation, reading or contemplation), it becoming uniform, and today’s oppressing technical fetishism, pervading everything.

Through the recycling of trash, the combination of glued and painted elements I represent iconic scenes of poverty and high-tech fetishism, and I create bizarre human figures (statues) made of trash.

I also use “found” motives as a basic layer of my paintings: e g. some elementary, instinctive drawings (painted figures) of small children in contrast to the mannered figures put in the foreground, referring thus to the instinctive, elementary wholeness of individuals in their childhood, in contrast to the general “brokenness” of adult people (in Hungary). As a background I use for instance the maps of transport networks, that will, according to my expectation, well symbolize and represent th...

I studied graphic design from 1994 till 1996 in Liceo de Arta Brasov (Arts High School), than later on from 1998 till 2004 at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts – my masters: Joseph Gaal and Dora Maurer. In 2001 I received a four months longErasmus scholarship to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti,Brera / Milano at the reproduction artwork and lithography department. In 2002 I received another scholarship “Ludwig” which made possible to make a study tour to France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. In 2004 I graduated from MKE painter and audiovisual education department. In 2006 I had a scholarship in Vienna, too. I has been living and working since 1997 in Budapest:

Selected Solo Exhibitions
* 2019. We are living here, MMG Gallery, Budapest
My one way, San Marco Gallery, Budapest
* 2018. Imaginary Journey, Halköz Gallery, Debrecen
* 2017. In the city, MAMŰ, Budapest
* 2016. A turist in Budapest, Vasary Képtár, Kaposvár * 2012 Structus, Kogart Gallery, Budapest
* 2012. Man in the City, Hungarian Cultural Center, Bucharest
* 2011. Sept. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Győr, Magyar Ispita, Győr
* 2006 Sept. Screenshots, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna